Freedom Leaf, Inc. Appoints David Vautrin, VP of Sales of Origin House, to Board of Directors
January 09 2019 - 10:16AM
InvestorsHub NewsWire
Freedom Leaf, Inc. Appoints David Vautrin,
VP of Sales of Origin House, to Board of
Directors
LAS VEGAS, NV -- January 09, 2019 -- InvestorsHub
NewsWire -- Freedom Leaf, Inc. (OTCQB:
FRLF), (the “Company”), parent company of
leading CBD health and wellness
brands Leafceuticals, Irie CBD and Hempology,
today announced the appointment of David Vautrin to its Board of
Directors.
Mr. Vautrin brings invaluable beverage and cannabis expertise to
the Board of Directors. He has a successful track record in
privately held and publicly traded, multi-billion-dollar consumer
packaged goods (CPG) companies, as well as ownership and leadership
in mid-cap and emerging growth organizations.
Mr. Vautrin is currently the Vice President of Sales &
Marketing at Origin House, (formerly known as CannaRoyalty),
where he has worked since March 2017. Origin House provides
investors unique access to diverse, high potential, growth-ready
assets in North America’s emerging cannabis market. Origin House’s
California distribution business has state-wide dispensary
coverage, over 100 employees, 8 licenses, 5 facilities, 20+
delivery trucks and 25+ brand partners. Mr. Vautrin is leveraging
his prior expertise in operations, branding, post-merger
integration, marketing, product commercialization and sales
development skills.
He recently completed a two-year stint as an Independent
Director of New Age Beverages Corp. New Age Beverage is a
healthy functional beverage company with a large portfolio of
beverage brands sold in approximately 60 countries and domestically
across retail and convenience stores. While on the Board of
Directors, he served on the audit committee and led the
compensation committee for that company. During his tenure, the
company successfully up-listed from the OTC to the NASDAQ exchange,
raised over $100M, acquired 5 companies, 4 brands, 11 patents,
established robust governance, and exponentially increased the
liquidity of its stock while significantly expanding the company’s
market capitalization.
Since January 2009, Mr. Vautrin has been serving as a strategic
advisor to DBC, a $40M+ branded consumer goods company whose
primary brand Pirouline® Rolled Wafer product is sold in
approximately 30 countries and domestically, across retail channels
including grocery, drug, export, value, e-commerce, food service
and specialty distributors.
Mr. Vautrin has also held other senior level positions,
including CEO of Throwdown Industries Holdings from May 2009 to
December 2016 and Senior Vice President of Cott Corporation from
May 2007 to August 2008. He is a graduate of The State University
of New York, Plattsburgh with a degree in business administration.
Clifford J Perry, the Company’s CEO, noted: “We are very excited
that Dave is joining the Freedom Leaf Board. He brings a deep
reservoir of experience in CPG sales, marketing and branding that
will be invaluable as Freedom Leaf evolves into a leading CBD
health and wellness brand provider.”
Mr. Vautrin commented: “I am pleased to join the Board of
Directors at Freedom Leaf and am confident that my cannabis and
beverage experience with Origin House and New Age Beverages,
coupled with my 20+ years of sales and marketing leadership
experience, will enable me to be a significant contributor to
Freedom Leaf’s growth in the years to come. I find the hemp
beverage opportunity within the mass market particularly exciting
given my extensive expertise in building beverage start-ups to
multi-billion-dollar businesses.”
About Freedom Leaf, Inc.®
FreedomLeafInc.com (OTCQB: FRLF) is a diversified, global
leader in plant-based care providing premium Hemp CBD health
products across advanced care, consumer and pet markets to
promote greater health, wellness and longevity. FRLF is a
clean health company establishing a new standard in care with
plant-based products designed to naturally restore, revitalize and
strengthen bodies and minds. FRLF’s consumer promise of “your
health first” underscores its universal commitment to produce
premium quality HEMP CBD health products.
FRLF is a diverse enterprise of branded business lines dedicated
to meeting the needs of people who face health challenges and those
who are healthy. Freedom Leaf Leafceuticals is the company’s most
advanced product line for health care practitioners, caregivers and
patients. IrieCBD and Hempology are the company’s flagship
lines of premium full spectrum Hemp CBD products rich in CBD’s,
terpenes and flavonoids integrated with potent health
botanicals.
For over 30 years, the founders of FRLF fought for citizen
rights to access plant-based care and pioneered premium hemp health
products as a first step to clean health. Today, FRLF produces
premium hemp products from seed to shelf using proprietary,
science-backed formulations and rigorous product testing. FRLF is a
socially conscious, vertically integrated company maintaining the
highest standards in quality and safety, with a focus on
continual innovation to deliver ever-better plant-based care
products.
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Contact:
Raymond Medeiros PR and Business Development Director
Phone: 415-601-1974
ray@freedomleaf.com
Freedom Leaf, Inc.