LOUISVILLE, Colo., June 14,
2024 /PRNewswire/ - (TSX: CWEB) (OTCQX: CWBHF)
Charlotte's Web Holdings, Inc. ("Charlotte's
Web" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the
results from its 2024 annual general and special meeting of
shareholders held on June 13, 2024,
via live audio webcast (the "Meeting"). Each of the matters
voted upon at the Meeting is discussed in detail in the Company's
Proxy Statement dated April 29, 2024,
a copy of which is available on the Company's SEDAR profile at
www.sedarplus.ca and on EDGAR at www.sec.gov.
At the Meeting, all items, as detailed in the Company's Proxy
Statement, were approved.
The total number of votes cast at the Meeting was 62,034,339,
representing 39.4% of the total number of votes attached to the
outstanding voting shares of the Company. According to the proxies
received, the results of the vote for the election of directors
were as follows:
Nominee
|
# Votes For
|
% Votes For
|
# Votes
Withheld
|
% Votes
Withheld
|
Jonathan
Atwood
|
23,194,494
|
94.6 %
|
1,312,418
|
5.4 %
|
Matthew
McCarthy
|
23,263,588
|
94.9 %
|
1,243,324
|
5.1 %
|
Angela
McElwee
|
23,322,998
|
95.1 %
|
1,183,914
|
4.9 %
|
William
Morachnick
|
23,295,258
|
95.0 %
|
1,211,654
|
5.0 %
|
Jared
Stanley
|
23,333,518
|
95.2 %
|
1,173,394
|
4.8 %
|
Maureen
Usifer
|
23,337,133
|
95.2 %
|
1,169,779
|
4.8 %
|
Two new members were appointed to the Board at the meeting:
Jared
Stanley
Jared Stanley is a Co-Founder of
Charlotte's Web and a former director of the Company. He has served
multiple executive roles for the Company since its inception in
2013. Most recently, Mr. Stanley was the Chief Commercial Officer
("CCO"), overseeing Cultivation & Breeding, Research &
Development, Sales, New Product Development, Science and
legislative activities at the state and federal level for consumer
access and industry advocacy. Prior to assuming the position of
CCO, Mr. Stanley served as Chief Operating Officer from
May 2022 through September 2023, Chief Cultivation and Innovation
Officer from December 2021 through
May 2022, and Chief Cultivation
Officer from March 2019 through
December 2021. Mr. Stanley has more than 15 years' experience
in the cannabis and hemp industry and has built the Company's
cultivation divisions from the ground up, creating
first-of-its-kind scalable and consistent hemp raw material supply
systems across three States and Canada. As a Co-Founder and the Company's
former CCO, Mr. Stanley has been featured in global press, media
and public events speaking to the Company's mission-driven story,
market-leading products, and proprietary technologies. Mr. Stanley
served on the Board of Directors of the Company from January 2018 through March 2021. He also
served on the Board of Directors of AJNA Holdings PBC from
April 2021 through May 2022.
Mr. Stanley graduated from Colorado State
University with a degree in Applied Human Sciences.
Following his reappointment to the Board, effective June 13, 2024, Mr. Stanley resigned as CCO, and
will continue as a paid consultant to assist in legislative and
cultivation matters as needed.
Maureen
Usifer
Ms. Usifer has worked within the consumer products industry for
over 30 years and held leadership positions for over 20
years. Ms. Usifer was a member of the Green Mountain Care
Board, a regulatory board appointed by the Governor in Vermont responsible for approving hospital
budgets, insurance rates and capital projects, from 2017 to 2021.
Ms. Usifer served as CFO of Seventh Generation Inc., a B-Corp that
is a distributor of its brand of household and personal care
products, from 2012 to 2016. From 1996 to 2012, Ms. Usifer served
in various roles with Church & Dwight, a major producer of
baking soda and consumer products. Ms. Usifer served as Vice
President of Investor Relations, Senior Finance Director,
Divisional CFO, and controller during her tenure at Church &
Dwight. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of BlackRock
TCP Capital Corp., a Nasdaq listed company where she chairs the
audit committee and is a member of the governance committee and
Liberty All-Star Funds a NYSE listed company where she also chairs
the audit committee and is a member of the governance
committee. She previously served on the Board of Directors of
BlackRock Capital Investment Corporation. Other private board roles
include BlackRock Private Credit Fund, BlackRock Direct Lending
Corp. and PC Construction. Ms. Usifer received an undergraduate
degree in business from St. Michael's
College and an M.B.A. in Finance from Clarkson University.
Detailed results of the matters considered at the Meeting are
reported in the Report of Voting Results as filed on the
Company's SEDAR profile at www.sedar.com.
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About Charlotte's Web Holdings,
Inc.
Charlotte's Web Holdings, Inc., a Certified B Corporation
headquartered in Louisville,
Colorado, is the market leader in innovative hemp extract
wellness products that includes Charlotte's Web whole-plant
full-spectrum CBD extracts as well as broad-spectrum CBD certified
NSF for Sport®. Charlotte's Web is the official CBD of Major League
Baseball©, Angel City Football Club and the Premier Lacrosse
League. Charlotte's Web branded premium quality products start with
proprietary hemp genetics that are North American farm-grown using
organic and regenerative cultivation practices. The Company's hemp
extracts have naturally occurring botanical compounds including
cannabidiol ("CBD"), CBN, CBC, CBG, terpenes, flavonoids, and other
beneficial compounds. Charlotte's Web product categories include
CBD oil tinctures (liquid products) CBD gummies (sleep, calming,
exercise recovery, immunity), CBN gummies, CBD capsules, CBD
topical creams and lotions, as well as CBD pet products for dogs.
Through its substantially vertically integrated business model,
Charlotte's Web maintains stringent control over product quality
and consistency with analytic testing from soil to shelf for
quality assurance. Charlotte's Web products are distributed to
retailers and health care practitioners throughout the U.S.A, and online through the Company's
website at www.charlottesweb.com.
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