About

A Family Farming Legacy

One of Canada’s Largest Legal Cannabis Harvesters

SpeakEasy Cannabis Club is one of the largest legal cannabis harvesters in Canada producing from Western Canada’s largest outdoor growing space. Located in the renowned “Golden Mile” cannabis region in Rock Creek, BC, SpeakEasy operates on 290 acres of land with a state-of-the-art, 63,200 square-foot indoor facility. The Company is recognized for five generations of a successful family farming and for producing high-quality flower and value-added products at low cost.

The Company holds a cultivation, processing and sales licence issued by Health Canada under the Cannabis Act.

Milestones

While many cannabis companies were out spending hundreds of millions on AI, greenhouses, and robotics that they thought were going to change the cannabis world, the Geen family was decades ahead of them investing in what they knew to be the most vital part of farming, site selection.

1995: Geen family acquired 2200 acres of land in Rock Creek, BC. The area is known as the Golden Mile – where their family has successfully farmed for 5 generations.
2013: Geen family applied for a cannabis license; in 2016 290 acres of the Geen family farm would become SpeakEasy Cannabis Corp.
2017: SpeakEasy acquired 290 acres of land in Rock Creek, BC.
2018: Health Canada announces that outdoor cannabis cultivation would be allowed. SpeakEasy’s trajectory changes dramatically.
2019: Speakeasy is granted a cannabis licence for cultivation, processing, and medical sales.
2020: SpeakEasy added 2,600,000 square feet of outdoor cultivation area to its licence.
2021: SpeakEasy Cannabis Club Ltd. completes the first of three 13, 200 sq ft licenced facilities.
- SpeakEasy Cannabis Club Ltd. secures an Extraction Agreement with RC Frontier Labs Ltd. to bring marketing, processing equipment, IP and years of extraction and formulation experience to the SpeakEasy processing facility.
- SpeakEasy Cannabis Club. Ltd. files for its Narcotics Dealers Licence (“NDL”) in order to develop and standardize psilocybin cultivation.

PURPOSE

OUR VISION

Our vision is to become one of the world’s highest-quality, low-cost and best performing cannabis producers, providing our investors with diversified growth opportunities on a global scale.

OUR MISSION

Led by our passion for growing premier, low-cost cannabis, SpeakEasy’s mission is to generate steady growth through quality, innovation and adherence to our family farming values while maintaining an unrelenting commitment to the objectives of our employees, partners, customers and shareholders.

TEAM

Marc Geen, Founder

A proud 4th-generation BC farmer, Marc Geen has been active in the legal medical marijuana industry for more than 10 years, consulting, complying with, and participating in the MMAR, MMPR, and ACMPR programs. Prior to co-founding Speakeasy Cannabis Club Ltd., Marc spent 17 years as Head of Operations for Kettle Mountain Ginseng Ltd, one of North Americas largest ginseng producers. The experience gleaned from a long career in large scale commercial farming, Mr. Geen has been able to apply many cost effective, good farming practices to the outdoor, indoor, and greenhouse cultivation of cannabis. Mr. Geen is also the co-creator of a full line of cannabis extract products designed under ACMPR regulations.

Patrick Geen, CEO & Director

Patrick Geen is a co-founder and facility manager at Speakeasy Cannabis Club Ltd. Before relocating to Rock Creek to begin work at Speakeasy Patrick spent the previous 10 years as an Aircraft Maintenance Engineer-Avionics in the aerospace industry at Kelowna Flightcraft after graduating at the top of his class from BCIT. Prior to that he spent 14 years as a plant science technologist at Kettle Mountain Ginseng Ltd, one of North Americas largest ginseng producers.

John Karroll

John Karroll has been a recognized Pioneer, Stakeholder, & Government Liaison, Compliance Officer in the cannabis industry for 20 + years from Commercial Consulting, Federal Cannabis Licenses, Provincial Retail Sales & Licensing, Standard Cultivation & Processing(Cannabis Extract, Cannabis Edibles, Topicals), Micro Cultivation & Processing, Dealers & Sales Licenses, Patient Services, R & D initiatives, Outdoor Cannabis, Hemp Cultivation & Processing, Nursery Licenses, R & D, Sales & distribution in Canada plus Import/Export to other countries.

Frey Garabagi, CSO & Director

Dr. Garabagi currently serves as Chief scientific Officer for SpeakEasy Cannabis Club and Island Canna Seeds. He is a research scientist, inventor, and entrepreneur in the field of plant molecular genetics and biotechnology with 10 years of post-doctoral research experience from the University of Guelph. Prior to joining SpeakEasy, he was VP of Research and Quality Affairs at Emerald Health Therapeutics Inc. from September 2015 to January 2019. Dr. Garabagi founded Herbaceous Inc. in 2012 to organize preclinical research with non-psychoactive cannabinoids on epilepsy and obesity. The company received its right-to-build letter from Health Canada in February 2014 and completed securing a $6M financing in 2015 for the construction of its facility.

Malcolm Davidson, CPA, CA, Interim CFO

Mr. Davidson is a career CFO and with more than 17 years of professional accounting and finance experience. Over the past year, Mr. Davidson has been the CFO for publicly traded cannabis companies. Prior to this, much of his experience has been providing CFO services to producing publicly traded mining companies that trade on the TSX and NYSE. In addition to financial reporting, Malcolm brings a wealth of knowledge to directing the regulatory and compliance environment for the Company but also works closely with the executive team to ensure that It meets Its short and long term objectives. As a seasoned professional accountant, Malcolm looks forward to bringing his tax, finance, and assurance skillset to SpeakEasy.

Youth Prevention

We’re fully committed to continue in the development of and abiding by the stringent regulations to protect our youth and adolescents.

For the Planet

Rock Creek has been our home for over 5 decades. Throughout this time we have always been conscientious of our carbon footprint, developing effective policies and best management practices

Local Community and Family Values

As the largest employer in the region, we treat our community as an extension of our family.