Board of Directors

Brendan Kennedy has served as our President and Chief Executive Officer and member of our board of directors since January 2018 and has served as the Chief Executive Officer and member of the board of directors of our subsidiary, Tilray Canada Ltd., since 2016. Mr. Kennedy also served as the Executive Chairman and member of the board of directors of Privateer Holdings, a private investment firm focused exclusively on the cannabis industry, since he founded it in October 2011. Mr. Kennedy served as Chief Executive Officer of Privateer Holdings from its founding until June 2018. Prior to founding Privateer Holdings, Mr. Kennedy served as the Chief Operating Officer of Silicon Valley Bank Analytics from 2010 to 2011 and Managing Director from 2006 to 2010. Mr. Kennedy holds a BA from the University of California, Berkeley, an MS in Engineering from the University of Washington and an MBA from the Yale School of Management.

Michael Auerbach has served as a member of our board of directors since February 2018. He had served on the board of directors of Privateer Holdings from January 2014 – December 2019. Mr. Auerbach currently serves as Senior Vice President at the Albright Stonebridge Group, a commercial diplomacy and global strategy group, since July of 2012. Mr. Auerbach also serves as General Partner at Subversive Capital, which is dedicated to investing in radical companies whose core missions subvert the status quo and require sophisticated government and regulatory strategies for success. He is also General Partner of Subversive’s venture platform and Opportunity Fund, and Chairman of Subversive REIT LP and Subversive Capital Acquisition Corp.   
 
Mr. Auerbach previously served as the Vice President, Social Risk Consulting at Control Risks Group Limited from September 2009 to July 2012. Mr. Auerbach has also held senior positions at the Center for American Progress and The Century Foundation, where he concentrated on issues related to U.S. Foreign Policy, National Security, and Conflict Resolution. His work has been published in a variety of national and international publications, and he served as a Visiting Professor at the New School for Social Research. 
 
Mr. Auerbach presently sits on the boards of the Theodore C. Sorensen Center for International Peace and Justice, The KiDS Board of NYU’s Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital, Next for Autism, which produces Night of Too Many Stars, and Sophie Gerson Healthy Youth Foundation.  Mr. Auerbach received a M.A. in International Relations from Columbia University and a B.A. in Critical Theory from the New School for Social Research.    

Rebekah E. Dopp has served as a member of our board of directors since May 2018. Ms. Dopp currently works at Google where she is the executive producer of The Search for Racial Equity series and is the founder and chair of Exponent, a global gender diversity accelerator. She joined Google in 2016 as Head of Local TV Partnerships and was the architect of the local TV engagement strategy for YouTube TV. She previously served as Senior Vice President, Advanced Digital Services for CBS Corporation from 2014 to 2016 and in several leadership positions at HBO from 2001 to 2014. She is a sought-after speaker and has led global product, engineering, strategy, and distribution teams. She served as a senior leader on launch teams for HBO GO, CBS All Access, and YouTube TV.

Ms. Dopp graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration with a concentration in finance from The College of William & Mary. She is a fellow of the Betsy Magness Leadership Institute as well as a National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) leadership fellow. She participated in the Directors’ College at Stanford Law School, the TV Executive Leadership Program at Harvard Business School, and the NACD Master Class.

Soren Schroder has served as a member of our board of directors since August 2020. He has served in a variety of agribusiness leadership roles in the United States and Europe. After working for more than 15 years at Continental Grain and Cargill, he joined Bunge Ltd in 2000. Soren served as CEO of Bunge North America, leading Bunge’s business operations in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. In June 2013, he was named CEO of Bunge Ltd, serving in this role until 2019. Soren is active in board and advisory roles for emerging companies in the agribusiness and food sectors. His experience lies in building global supply chains, managing risk, logistics, industrial and value-added activities, and executing on strategy via acquisitions and partnerships on a global scale. Mr. Schroder is a Danish National and earned a BA in Economics from Connecticut College.

Christine St.Clare has served as a member of our board of directors since June 2018. Ms. St.Clare has served as the President of St.Clare Advisors, LLC since January 2012, which she founded. Ms. St.Clare completed a 35-year career with KPMG in 2010, during which time she served in various capacities, including as an Audit Partner from 1986 until 2005, as an Advisory Partner in Internal Audit, Risk and Compliance from 2005 until 2010 and as a member of KPMG’s board of directors for four years, chairing the Audit and Finance Committee. Ms. St.Clare currently serves on the boards of directors of Fibrocell Science, Inc. and AquaBounty Technologies, Inc., and chairs the Audit Committees for both companies. Ms. St.Clare holds a BS in Accounting from California State