Sativa Investments PLC appoints Chief Financial Officer and Director

Sativa Investments PLC (NEX:SATI), the UK’s first medicinal cannabis investment vehicle, announced today that it has appointed Joseph Colliver FCA as Chief Financial Officer and a Director of the Company.

Geremy Thomas, founder and Chief Executive Officer of Sativa Investments PLC, said: “With four investments to date and a pipeline of potential investments at varying stages of review, the Company needs an experienced, strategically-thinking full-time finance head.

Joseph brings a depth of international experience including from his time at Kantar Consulting, part of WPP plc, where he advised clients on developing commercial capability. Coupled with his experience as Chief Financial Officer at Kantar Futures, a consultancy business with a $32 million turnover, his role as Global Commercial Director of WPP’s Kantar subsidiary Taylor Nelson Sofres, a $1.8 billion turnover marketing agency, and his Mazars’ Accountancy training, Joseph has a lot to offer the ever-expanding Sativa.”

Joseph Colliver (aged 38)

Joseph is a qualified Chartered Accountant with significant management consulting experience. Before joining Sativa, Joseph was a Director of Consulting at Kantar Consulting, part of WPP plc (“WPP”) which advises Retail, Sales and Shopper clients on enhancing their commercial capability and the commercial competency of their staff. Prior to this, Joseph was Chief Financial Officer and a senior board member at WPP’s Kantar Futures, which advises its clients on enhancing profit through change and shaping strategy. Here, Joseph was accountable for financial performance, managing a global finance team. From 2012 – 2015 Joseph was Global Commercial Director of WPP’s Kantar subsidiary Taylor Nelson Sofres, a $1.8 billion turnover marketing agency.

Before joining WPP, Joseph was an Audit Senior at Mazars LLP, where he qualified as an Accountant with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW), being made a Fellow in 2018. He gained a Geophysics BSc (Hons) 2:1 from Southampton University.

As at the date of this announcement, Joseph has been granted 3,350,000 share options in the Company at 1.5p.

Joseph Colliver

Joseph has been a director or partner of the following companies/partnerships in the last five years:

Current Directorships and Partnerships

Past Directorships and Partnerships

Headlight Vision Limited

Henley Centre Headlight Vision Ltd

 

There is no further information relating to Joseph Colliver that is required to be disclosed pursuant to Paragraph 21, Appendix 1 of the NEX Exchange Growth Market – Rules for Issuers.

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