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Ellese Symons

VP of Marketing, Balanced Health Botanicals at Village Farms

Ellese is the Vice President of Marketing at Balanced Health Botanicals and CBDistillery. She has been with the company since its conception in 2016 and has extensive experience in marketing, strategy, brand management, customer service, and leadership.

Prior to joining the BHB team, Ellese had a five-year career focused in commercial and residential real estate. As a business owner and licensed broker, Ellese’s career consisted of repositioning residential distressed properties, brokering $19 million in real estate transactions and providing tenant representation for leading corporations and local Denver businesses. As Vice President of Marketing and one of the first five employees, Ellese has contributed to a team that demonstrated 763% YoY growth in 2018, with reported ecommerce revenue of $19.6 million. She received her Bachelor of Business, Finance, and Entrepreneurship from University of Colorado at Boulder Leeds School of Business.


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Village Farms

Village Farms International, Inc. (Village Farms) is a producer, marketer and distributor of greenhouse-grown tomatoes, bell peppers and cucumbers in North America. The Company operates through two segments: Produce business and the Energy business. The Produce business produces, markets and sells the product group, which consists of tomatoes, bell peppers and cucumbers. The Energy business produces power that it sells per a long-term contract to its customer. The Company markets and distributes under its Village Farms brand name, primarily to retail supermarkets and fresh food distribution companies across the United States and Canada. Village Farms operates approximately three distribution centers located across the United States and Canada. The Company, through its subsidiary, VF Clean Energy, Inc., owns and operates a seven megawatt (MW) power plant from landfill gas that generates electricity and provides thermal heat in colder months.


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Delta, Canada

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1,001-5,000

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