CannaOne Provides Update
CannaOne Provides Update
Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - January 12, 2021) -
CannaOne Technologies Inc.
(CSE: CNNA) (OTC Pink: CNONF) (FSE: 3CT) ("CannaOne" or the "Company") announces a
reconstitution of management and addition to its Board of Directors. Effective January 12, 2021, Mr.
Solomon Riby-Williams has resigned as President, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer
of the Company and will remain on the Board of Directors.
The Company is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Christopher Cherry as the Interim
President, Interim Chief Executive Officer, and Chief Financial Officer of the Company. Mr. Cherry will
now also serve on the board of directors.
A brief biography of Mr. Christopher Cherry is as follows:
Currently Mr. Christopher Cherry has been serving as the Chief Financial Officer for NetCents
Technology Inc. NetCents offers merchants, partners, and users an entire cryptocurrency ecosystem by
providing full payment integration, Instant Settlements, and security while giving users access to over 40
million merchants worldwide.
Christopher is a licensed CPA having obtained the Chartered Accountant
designation in February 2009 and the Certified General Accountant designation in 2004. He has over 14
years of corporate accounting and audit experience and has acted as Director, Chief Financial Officer,
and Secretary for several public companies.
In his former experience as an auditor, he held positions
with KPMG and Davidson and Co. LLP in Vancouver, where he gained experience as an IPO specialist
and auditor for junior public companies.
The Company anticipates that it shall follow this appointment of Mr. Christopher Cherry with the posting
of a permanent President & CEO within the next 30 days.
The Company will build on its years of technical expertise, developing digital tools with a strong focus on
financial partnerships to further pursue its plans of constructing a global e-commerce solutions and a
digital fintech infrastructure network that will facilitate e-commerce across all platforms.
Non-brokered Private Placement and Debt Settlement
The Company intends to complete a non-brokered private placement of $2 million and an additional
debt settlement of up to $970,000 of currently outstanding debt.
Private Placement:
The Company intends to undertake a non-brokered private placement of units of the Company (the
"Units") at a price of $0.10 per Unit, whereby each Unit consists of one common share ("Share") and
one-half of one warrant (each whole warrant, a "Warrant"), with each whole Warrant to acquire one
common share with an exercise price of $0.25 per Share and a two-year term, which commences on the
closing date of the private placement. In addition, the Warrant will have a forced exercise mechanism
whereby if the Company shares trade for greater than $0.50/share for 10 straight trading days, then the
Warrant holder will be required to immediately exercise their warrants at that time. The Company may
pay finder's fees consisting of cash and or private placement Units.
The Company expects to close the private placement on/before January 31st, 2021. All securities to be
issued pursuant to the offering will be subject to the applicable statutory, exchange and regulatory hold
period of four months and any other required resale restrictions. The securities to be issued have not
and will not be registered under the US Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or any state securities
laws.
Net proceeds of the private placement, after paying the general costs of the issue and the cash portion
of the finder's fee, will be used proceeds will be used to facilitate growth plans by utilizing funds for (a)
expansion of the Company's payment processing operations and capabilities by way of acquisition,
joint, ventures, partnerships, or strategic alliances (b) general administrative expenses, and (c) working
capital.
Debt Settlement
In conjunction with the private placement, the Company has also agreed to settle an aggregate of no
greater than $970,000 of indebtedness by way of the issuance of up to no greater than 12,933,333 Units
of the Company. The Units being issued will be on the same terms as the Private Placement Units, and
the applicable resale restrictions will also the same as those for the Units issued through the Private
Placement.
ABOUT CANNAONE TECHNOLOGIES:
Since inception CannaOne has focused on development and deployment of its proprietary online
marketplace platform.
Integral to the true intent and directive of the long-term planning of these
development efforts was an early-stage technology agreement to allow for integration of a payment and
financial technology platform to facilitate merchant sales within its online platform.
As such, since March
2017 the company has worked closely with payment technology providers in SE Asia, to ascertain the
pathways to the greatest potential for future growth in the world's fastest growing digital payment
markets.
With the existence of ever-evolving international relationships with parties specifically focused on the
facilitation of payment processing and bank acquiring infrastructure, the Company sees potential to
increase revenue over time with the continued integration and utilization of complete payment
processing capabilities within our online marketplace solutions. The Company will look to expand its
online client portfolio to include additional business sectors, such as those to most effectively service the
payment processing requirements of e-commerce providers.
While CannaOne believes that significant near-term opportunities exist for the Company's solutions,
there can be no assurance that customer agreements will be reached or that such agreements will be
profitable should they be implemented.
For further information, please contact:
Solomon Riby-Williams
Chief Executive Officer
Email:
Phone: 604-559-8893
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PROVIDERS HAVE REVIEWED OR ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ADEQUACY OR
ACCURACY OF THIS RELEASE
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FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS: Certain information contained herein may constitute "forward-
looking information" under Canadian securities legislation. Generally, forward-looking information can
be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as, "will be", or variations of such words
and phrases or statements that certain actions, events or results "will" occur. Forward-looking
statements are based on the Company's estimates and are subject to known and unknown risks,
uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or
achievements of CannaOne to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such
forward-looking statements or forward-looking information, including capital expenditures and other
costs. There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate, as actual results and
future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly, readers
should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements and forward-looking information.
CannaOne will not update any forward-looking statements or forward-looking information that are
incorporated by reference herein, except as required by applicable securities laws.
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