Managing Partner Hamish Sutherland was the founding COO for Bedrocan Canada, Canada’s 5th Licensed Producer of medicinal cannabis under the MMPR/ACMPR.  Hamish grew the business, importing dried cannabis; the first legal international transfer of live cannabis plants; commissioning of a state-of-the-art 52,000 production facilty, responsible for compliance, marketing, production, processing and dispensing, through a successful listing on the TSX.V

  

Initiative Capital teams the rare cannabis production expertise of a successful, industry-defining leader of a founding Canadian Licensed Producer ("LP"), with a financial industry insider and intellectual asset expert who brings decades of venture and merchant banking success to curate, qualify, structure and monetize opportunities.  This combination invites investors to participate in the broader cannabis industry - not just the volatile traded LPs.   

 

Managing Partner Hamish Sutherland was the founding COO for Bedrocan Canada, the 5th Licensed Producer under Canada's MMPR/ACMPR.  He was responsible for the construction and commissioning of their state-of-the-art 52,000 sq.ft. fully-automated production facility and was accountable for 50 surprise Health Canada inspections, without a major observation or recall.  

 

Hamish has a B. Eng. in engineering physics from McMaster University, and an MBA from the Schulich School at York University.