Gavin Basserabie Email & Phone Number

Sydney, Australia

Created a private fund to invest in and grow revenue generating ‘boutique’ online businesses. Most investments have broken even and sold or closed, however one exceptionally successful start-up has generated profits exceeding 50x the capital investment. It continues generating profits of over 3x the capital investment each month. I am non-executive and my involvement is limited to cash flow management, strategic advisory and compliance

Sydney, Australia

ConfidenceClub provides high quality adult incontinence products direct to Australian clients at wholesale prices. This is a commercial enterprise but provides a significant social benefit helping incontinence sufferers and their carers manage their conditions in a more convenient and cost effective way.

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Together with the management team of Canopy Growth Africa we acquired the business back from Canopy Growth Corporation Limited (NYSE:CGC / TSX:WEED) and established a high quality cultivator and manufacturer of legal cannabis products for Southern African and worldwide customers.

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Over 23% of the world's websites run on WordPress.Plugcorp develops Plug-ins for WordPressThe most successful one has had over 400,000 downloads since 2012, including thousands of users who have paid for the premium versionIt is one of the highest rated and most popular downloads for WordPress XML or CSV imports

South Africa

Facilitated a joint venture between South Africa’s second largest Airline (kulula.com), and Daddy’s World - a Cape Town based Leisure and Hotel Group, to create an online retail ‘deal site’ to leverage kulula.com’s large, active customer base. Launched Daddy’s Deals in August 2011 in South Africa, and took the business to profitability within 12 months. My main focus has been on database growth, user experience, product sourcing, quality control of deals & partnership marketingI, and other investors, acquired the airline’s shares in September 2013 and became majority shareholders.The business has a database of over 450,000 members and 3,500 merchants. It also has a VIP Club (Club Daddy) that over 2,000 members pay to belong to.Daddy's Deals is the largest deal site in South Africa. In February 2015 an experienced online specialist took an equity stake in the business and was appointed CEO, which enabled me to revert to a non-executive Investor with only limited advisory responsibility.

Greater Toronto Area, Canada

Psyence Group is a life science biotechnology platform providing science forward natural products for psychedelic therapy, experience and wellness. Psyence has built and operates one of the first federally licensed commercial psilocybin cultivation and production facilities. Psyence will be pioneering the use of natural psilocybin for the long-term treatment of psychological trauma and its mental health consequences. Psyence Group intends to have a global footprint operating across multiple legal jurisdictions, through the advanced provision of psychedelic therapy and experience, as well as market leading functional mushroom brands and product portfolio. For more information: www.psyence.com

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Canopy Growth Corporation Ltd (NYSE: CGC / TSX:WEED) acquired our cannabis business in Africa and, under the guidance of our management, built Canopy Growth Africa. After two years we acquired the business back from Canopy Growth via a Management Buy Out and renamed the company Highlands Investments Pty Ltd.

Lesotho

In August 2017, Daddy Cann (Lesotho) Pty Ltd was granted a significant license to cultivate, extract, store, import, export and otherwise handle Cannabis. This is one of the first full seed-to-sale licenses granted in Africa. The business was sold to Canopy Growth Ltd (NYSE: CGC) in May 2018 in the largest legal cannabis deal in Africa at the time.

Sydney, Australia

Intertrading Australia and Deals Direct were 'sister companies' with common directors. After working at Intertrading and consulting at Deals Direct I moved full time to Deals Direct as Head of Special Projects.Some of the projects I undertook were:• Review, due diligence and acquisition of competitors and adjacent businesses (the major one being Shoppers Advantage who run shopping sites for large databases such as Telstra Bigpond, CGU, NAB, etc)• Launch adjacencies from startup • General business strategy and direction at Senior Executive Leadership Team level• Overhauled customer service structure to take Deals Direct from particularly poor service provider to arguably the best in the Aus online space• Overhauled product listing photography from worst to best practice• Implemented warehouse and logistic enhancements that create substantial efficiencies and savings• Implemented marketing initiatives to increase sales and to build customer base• Developed a commercial division which become a profitable channel and effective means of moving inventory• Recruited key senior staff members to head up Customer Service, DealMe, eBay and Commercial divisions

Sydney, Australia

• Developed a structured sales force including recruiting sales and admin staff, implementing targets, incentives, plans and performance reporting and rewards. • New sales team generated over a third of total revenue after 1 year which was significant both in terms of margin as well as in reducing reliance on a small group of major customers• Acquired one new adjacent business, integrated one prior acquisition to the main business, and disposed of another prior acquisition that was not performing• Introduced accounting, reporting and compliance measures that were not in place in this ‘family style’ business• Opened up a satellite warehouse and sales office in Melbourne to acquire and improve service local customers. Melbourne sales grew more than 200%.• During my time at Intertrading I spent about 20% of my time consulting to DealsDirect until moving across full time

Sydney, Australia

• Increased revenue from $2m in FY06 to $25m+ in FY09.• In the same period, turned $1.6m loss to $1.5m+ profit.• Grew customer base from 30,000 to over 570,000 registered customers.• Built one of the most recognised online retail brands in Australia with minimal budget.• Recruited a team of over 40 committed and loyal staff members and mentored the progression of a number of them from entry level to management positions.• Achieved revenue and margin growth every month.• Directed our IT team to develop a state of the art operation and distribution systems to manage the rapid growth.• Built excellent partner relationships with key industry leaders, including an exclusive relationship with Velocity (Virgin Australia).• Developed relationships with over 250 top local suppliers and a further 100 international suppliers in China, USA and South Africa.• Relocated warehouse from 2,000m2 to 4,500m2 and then to 9,800m2 facilities between Sept 07 to May 09.

Sydney, Australia

Commenced employment at Millers Ltd (subsequently became Specialty Fashion Group (ASX:SFG) as Logistics Manager in May 2001 and in February 2004 was promoted to run one of the Group's divisions, LookSharp Concepts.Key Achievements at LookSharp:• Grew turnover from $88m in FY04 to $120m+ in FY06.• Turned losses of $500k in FY04 to a profit of $4.5m in FY06, against a budget of $2.3m. • Oversaw the implementation of a comprehensive ERP system, online sales channel and a number of other operational improvements that facilitated efficiencies and management visibility.• Renegotiated international sea freight contracts directly with shipping lines in Asia which saved over $1.2m per year,• Introduced procedures to manage foreign currency exposures that substantially reduced the risk of large losses, while still achieving a FY06 forex gain of $1.5m (against $900k budget).• Created a team that was passionate, enthusiastic and committed to the success of the business.Key Achievements at Millers:• Restructured the entire supply chain to enable up to 250,000 garments per day to be processed through a distribution centre that was previously unable to cope with 100,000 garments per day. • Renegotiated all SFH’s non-stock purchases and cut $2.5m in recurring costs from road and sea freight, mobile and fixed telephone, shopping bags, hangers, store fittings, credit card charges, motor vehicles, printing, distribution, store equipment, and other areas. The Retail Apparel division’s EBITDA at the time was $12m, so this was a substantial contribution.• Project-managed the acquisition of Silhouette, a retail fashion brand with 60 stores and a warehouse, completing the entire process within 4 weeks.• Initiated a loss prevention program and trained over 1,100 store managers and staff in loss prevention techniques. This resulted in the best stocktake in SFH’s history, leading to a profit write-back of $1.55m in June 2003. A similar write-back was made in June 2004.

Sydney, Australia

Restaurants marketing and home delivery businessSold shares to Mr Delivery from South Africa - one of the largest businesses in this space at the time doing over 1million orders and deliveries per annum

Sydney, Australia

Commenced my Accounting training as an Audit Junior and left the practice once I had completed my Chartered Accountant qualifications. Main functions include audit and business services for small public and larger private family companies including Rebel Sport, Barbeques Galore, Toga Group, Equitilink, Reebok and Aussie Home LoansWhilst working at Horwath I completed the Professional Year studies to attain acceptance to the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia with exam results in the top 5% of NSW in 2 of the 5 disciplines.

Graduated As Chartered Accountant, Accounting And Finance

Bachelor’S Degree, Business/Commerce, General

Bachelor of Commerce

High School