Lexaria Bioscience Appoints Gregg Smith as Senior Advisor

KELOWNA, BC / ACCESSWIRE / November 5, 2019 / Lexaria Bioscience Corp. (OTCQX:LXRP) (CSE:LXX) (the “Company” or “Lexaria”), a global innovator in drug delivery platforms, is very pleased to announce the appointment of Gregg Smith, Founder of Evolution VC Partners (www.evolutionvcp.com), as Senior Advisor. Evolution VC is a New York-based “culture tech” venture investment firm with more than 90 portfolio companies in many disruptive and emerging consumer-tech companies, including JUUL Labs, Pax Labs, Beyond Meat, Roman, Sweetgreen, Bird, New Wave Foods, Relativity Space and more. Prior to forming his investment company in 2007, Gregg spent 20 years on Wall Street as an investment banker focused on executing private equity placements with a strong focus on life sciences. Gregg was formerly the Managing Director and Head of Cowen and Company’s Private Equity Group. Prior to that, Gregg was a Principal of the Equity Private Placements Group at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Gregg began his career at Bear Stearns and is also the only east coast member of Sand Hill Angels – an active angel investment group comprised of investors and senior business executives based in Silicon Valley. “I am passionate about creating a smokeless future and recognize that the consumption…

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