Our Team
Rob Fia, CFA, CEO & President, Director
Mr. Fia, CFA, is CEO & President, Director of City View Green Holdings Inc. He is extensively involved in assisting with financing, business development and the review of acquisition and partnership opportunities for City View Green Holdings Inc. Mr. Fia has an extensive contact base in the Canadian investment community and the capital markets sector as well as knowledge of the TSX, TSXV and CSE listing processes and guideline requirements. Over the past 18 years Mr. Fia has developed a career of working with early stage technology, medical cannabis, medical device, mining and oil & gas companies and advising corporate executives on business matters dealing with capital structuring, strategy, expansion, mergers and acquisitions, concept creation, private equity, corporate development, and corporate governance. Mr. Fia was the Co-Head Corporate Finance, Kingsdale Capital Markets Inc. since 2004 and is also a director and the CEO of Therma Bright Inc. (TSXV:THRM) (since 2009). Mr. Fia received his Bachelor’s of Commerce from the I.H. Asper School of Business at the University of Manitoba and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
Mario Meek – Operations
Mario brings 10 years of networking, growing and cultivation experience in the medical cannabis industry. Mario was an original founding partner of WeedMD; one of Federally licensed commercial facilities in Canada. Currently, he is president of 420 Consulting, and has provided consulting services to Shoppers Drug-Mart, Canada’s largest Pharmacy Network and has provided numerous award winning medical cannabis strains to commercial cannabis licensed producers. He is an experienced master grower in hydro gardens, aquaponics, aeroponics, flood and drain, ebb and flow techniques, organic grow methods and pest management techniques. He is licensed as a Designated Producer under the current legislation with Health Canada. Mario is experienced in every aspect of growing marijuana from seed to the finished product and has a deep understanding of the art of growing great medicinal cannabis.
Michael Hagopian, Extraction Expert
Michael Hagopian is an entrepreneur in the Cannabis industry within the US and Canada. For the past 3 years, Michael’s most recent employment was COO at Dose Oil, a licensed processor of cannabis extracts located in Seattle, WA. During those years, Michael was responsible for building out the facility and producing cannabis extracts that are currently available in licensed retail stores throughout the state. Michael developed SOP’s and implemented best practices for sales and production employees and oversaw the day-to-day operations for a CO2 extraction facility in the state regulated industry. Sales increased rapidly for Dose’s products and known for high quality and customer demand.
Prior to his relocation to Seattle, WA Mike was employed in the Communications industry for 15 years as an account executive, Market Development representative, Sales Engineer and Sales Manager. He was employed by Comcast Communications and Time Warner Cable in South Carolina and Florida.
Yan Hai – Quality Assurance Specialist
Yan is an accomplished quality assurance professional with 15 years of professional experience in the pharmaceutical, medicaldevice, medical cannabis and natural health product industries. She holds a Master of Applied Science degree in Chemical Engineering and AppliedChemistry & Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering from University of Toronto. Yan Hai has experience as senior quality assurance consultant, quality assurance manager/specialist, quality control analyst, R&D chemist and data reviewer. She has thorough knowledge and extensive experience in quality & compliance, cGxPs, regulatory standards including Health Canada and FDA Drug, Cannabis, and Medical Device regulations, and ISO standards.
Yan currently holds a position as a senior quality assurance consultant at Innova MedipharmInc. In her role as a senior quality assurance consultant, she carries out quality system development and improvement, auditing, inspection readiness, ACMPR/CTLS application, batch recordreview, deviation and complaint investigation, and method validation. She has successfully conducted a GMP auditing project for ABcannMedicinalsInc. –a well-known medical cannabis licensed producer. Yan brings with her many transferrable skills such as experience with quality systems, auditing, batch record review, method transfer and validation, microbiology, chemical testing, and sampling techniques.
Advisors
Steve Naraine, MSc, Advisor to the Board, City View Green
Associate Professor, Founder and Chief Science Officer, Cannavida, Director, Aether Research, Consultant to Health Canada. Mr. Naraine was previously with Canopy Growth and since branching out on his own with Aether Research he has successfully advised several companies on becoming licensed producers with Health Canada. Research includes: 2017 Germplasm sources of protective glandular leaf trichomes of hop (Humulus lupulus) Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution, 2015 Expansion of female sex organs in response to prolonged virginity in Cannabis sativa, Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution, 2015 Evolution of large drug-secreting resin glands in elite pharmaceutical strains of Cannabis sativa, Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution.
Joe Heng, CFO, Icon Exploration Inc. & Advisor to the Board, City View Green
Mr. Heng had been Chief Financial Officer and Secretary of Icon Exploration Inc. since March 17, 2015. He has served as an Officer of several companies listed on the TSXV Exchange and has over 36 years of industry experience in public accounting. He has been a self-employed Chartered Accountant since 1990 and received his Chartered Accountant designation from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario in 1973. Mr. Heng holds a B.Sc from the University of Malaya.
Stephen McNeill, Board of Director Icon Exploration Inc. Advisor to the Board, City View Green
Mr. McNeill is managing partner in Q4 Communications, a marketing and digital advertising company. In 2013, Mr. McNeill entered the medical marijuana industry, and has provided communication, community liaison and other consulting services to a number of companies in Ontario and British Columbia that have either received their license to produce or have sought a license under Health Canada’s current Access to Cannabis for Medical Purposes Regulations (“ACMPR”) and the former license regime – Marijuana for Medical Purposes Regulations (“MMPR”). He is a founding director of Georgian Bay Biomed, which is building a large-scale facility in Collingwood, Ontario. Mr. McNeill was involved in the application process, sourcing the company’s quality assurance personnel, financing and community liaison.