Next Gen Metals (C.N, StockForum), a Vancouver-based firm with diversifications focused on investment in the medical marijuana, industrial hemp and alternative medicine sectors, announced today that the company had appointed Howard Fitch of Market Edge Media to assist the company's wholly-owned subsidiary, GreenRush Financial Conferences, in the coordination of the first two medical marijuana investment conferences scheduled later this year in Vancouver and Toronto.
According to the news release, Fitch has over 25 years experience throughout the conference industry and is expected to establish GreenRush as the industry leader in providing investment conferences for the emerging medical marijuana, industrial hemp and alternative medicine investment communities.
Next Gen COO, Jay Oness, commented on the appointment, “On behalf of Next Gen, I am pleased to have Mr. Fitch join the Next Gen Team. We are confident that his years of experience within the conference industry will enable Mr. Fitch to work with Next Gen to successfully host Canada's first Medical Marijuana, Industrial Hemp and Alternative Medicine Investment Conferences.”
The first conference is scheduled for Wednesday, May 7, 2014 at the Vancouver Convention Centre, Ballrooms A/B/C and the second is tentatively slated for Toronto for May/June 2014.
Next Gen Metals was in the news recently when the company was mentioned in an article discussing the similarity between the recent weed stock buying craze and the dot com bubble.
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