Choom Appoints New President, Corey Gillon, with 20 Years of Senior Retail Leadership
30 Juli 2019 - 1:45PM
InvestorsHub NewsWire
Choom
Appoints
New
President, Corey Gillon, with 20 Years of Senior Retail
Leadership
Vancouver,
BC, Canada -- July 30, 2019 -- InvestorsHub NewsWire
-- Choom™ (CSE:
CHOO;
OTCQB: CHOOF), an emerging adult use
cannabis company that has secured one of the largest retail
networks in Canada, is pleased to announce
the appointment of Corey Gillon
as President,
effective August 26th,
2019.
Gillon joins the company as a seasoned global retail
executive
to strengthen
Choom's
management team as it prepares for rapid
growth within the Canadian
cannabis retail
market.
Gillon’s executive leadership
roles were established at Walmart and Aritzia where the corporate
strategies he implemented were customer-focused and ensured
operational retail development. Walmart is recognized as a global
leader in retail operations and Aritzia is one of Canada’s most
preeminent lifestyle retailers. During Gillon’s career, he led
multibillion-dollar operations spanning multiple countries and was
responsible for up to 22,000 associates. Gillon has a proven
track record for delivering year over year revenue growth as a
result of executional excellence, leveraging global best practices
and customer-focused retail strategies. Gillon is a graduate of the
prestigious Harvard Business School from their executive leadership
program.
“As Choom prepares for its
next phase of cannabis retail growth, it is critical to bring on a
retail executive of Corey’s caliber to further grow and develop our
company. Corey’s experience at Walmart and Aritzia comes with a
proven record of innovation, long-term planning, driving change and
developing brands for two of the world’s most innovative and
fastest growing retailers.” states Chris Bogart, President &
CEO of Choom. “We are thrilled that Corey is joining the Choom team
in the capacity of President. He will play an integral role in the
execution of our retail strategy especially during this critical
time of our aggressive opening scheduled for the coming
months.”
Gillon said, “I am excited to
lead a growing part of the Choom business, particularly during such
a dynamic and exciting period. Choom is building an iconic brand
and I look forward to stewarding the expansion of the Choom
cannabis retail network as it prepares for rapid growth within the
Canadian cannabis retail landscape.”
Corey Gillon is a senior
retail veteran with over 20 years of experience leading
high-profile organizations. During his tenure at Aritzia, Gillon
served as the Senior Vice President of the Retail Divison where he
was responsible for leading innovation and optimization of the
organization- including building central operations teams,
launching a new complex retail POS system, while spearheading
process improvement and shoring up the infrastructure of the
company. During his 15-year career at Walmart, Gillon was
responsible for overseeing multiple areas of the organization both
domestically and internationally. Notably, he led Walmart’s Western
Canadian retail footprint of 100 retail stores with P&L
responsibility of $7.1 billion, led the omni-channel strategy for
the organization as a Vice President of eCommerce and co-led the
due diligence and integration of a major global acquisition in
Sub-Saharan Africa.
Say
hello
to
Choom™
Choom™ is an
emerging adult use cannabis company whose mission is to establish
one of the largest retail networks in Canada. The Choom brand is
inspired by Hawaii's "Choom Gang"—a group of buddies in Honolulu
during the 1970's who loved to smoke weed—or
as the locals called it, "Choom".
Evoking the
spirit of the original Choom Gang, our brand caters to the Canadian adult
use market with the ethos of 'cultivating good times'.
Choom™
is focused on delivering an elevated customer experience through
our curated retail environments, offering a diversity of brands for
Canadians across a national retail
network.
"Chris Bogart", President
&
CEO
Contact:
Choom
Holdings Inc.
Chris
Bogart
President &
CEO
T:
604.683.2509
F:
604.683.2506
E:
chris@choom.ca
Alex
Porporo
Investor
Relations
T: 604.683.2509
Ext. 231
F:
604.683.2506
E:
alex@choom.ca
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