Allied Corp. announces new Chief Commercial Officer

KELOWNA — Allied Corp. announces the signing of Mr. Jay McMillan as the new Chief Commercial Officer (Consumer Packaged Goods) for Allied.

Mr. McMillan’s role will be to lead the consumer-packaged goods vertical for Allied with a focus on national level sales and distribution. Mr. McMillan will provide additional leadership overseeing the manufacturing supply chain of all retail ready products.

Mr. McMillan is a corporate development and M&A executive with a background in product innovation. Leveraging international markets experience, Jay has a background in new market development and strategic engagements with Fortune 500 organizations in consumer packaged goods, technology, and consumer electronics industries. Mr. McMillan’s most recent role was as Chief Development Officer with HEXO Corp, a Licensed Producer in Canada. There he headed up identifying Strategic Business Development opportunities for M&A, joint ventures and key partnerships. The expanding cannabis market continues to be where Mr. McMillan focuses as a Principle with UberGreen, a cannabis consulting firm focused on growth strategies, market consolidation and product development.

“We are excited to welcome Mr. McMillan to the Allied family. Having a seasoned CPG expert like Jay join the team is perfectly timed with the sales and distribution efforts surrounding our three retail brands: Tactical Relief, Equilibrium Bio and MaXXa,” said Mr. Calum Hughes, CEO and Chairman of Allied Corp.