{"id":3209,"date":"2018-04-02T09:59:58","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T13:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=05b7cbf7db0e87c06faaba085dcd1c1e"},"modified":"2018-04-02T09:59:58","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T13:59:58","slug":"cannimed-ceo-resigns-aurora-cannabis-svp-takes-role-in-interim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/04\/02\/cannimed-ceo-resigns-aurora-cannabis-svp-takes-role-in-interim\/","title":{"rendered":"CanniMed CEO resigns, Aurora Cannabis SVP takes role in interim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CanniMed Therapeutics CEO Brent Zettl has resigned, effective immediately, as Aurora Cannabis nears completion of its acquisition of the medical marijuana company.<\/p>\n<p>Zettl, who helped co-found the Saskatoon-based licensed producer in 1988, is pursuing other opportunities, the companies said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>He has agreed to remain available to CanniMed and Aurora as they integrate the two companies.<\/p>\n<p>Aurora&#8217;s senior vice president of business integration Andre Jerome has been appointed as interim chief executive.<\/p>\n<p>In January, Aurora struck a stock-and-cash deal valued at $1.1 billion to buy CanniMed.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement ended a sometimes-terse takeover battle between the two marijuana companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CanniMed Therapeutics CEO Brent Zettl has resigned, effective immediately, as Aurora Cannabis nears completion of its acquisition of the medical marijuana company. Zettl, who helped co-found the Saskatoon-based licensed producer in 1988, is pursuing other opportunities, the companies said in a statement. He has agreed to remain available to CanniMed and Aurora as they integrate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3210,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209\/revisions\/3210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}