One World Products Appoints Isiah Thomas as Executive Chairman of Board of Directors
December 08, 2021 at 07:15 pm IST
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One World Products announced that it has named Isiah Thomas as Executive Chairman of its Board of Directors. Mr. Thomas will continue to serve in his role as CEO of One World Products. The Companys previous chairman, Dr. Kenneth Perego, II, M.D., will continue to serve on the Board as its Vice Chairman. Mr. Thomas also dedicates a portion of his time to working with youth programs in urban communities, helping to instill confidence, teamwork, and leadership skills in young people. Inspired by his mothers work to improve the lives of disadvantaged women and families in Chicago, Thomas founded the Marys Court Foundation in her honor to support the health, safety, academic and personal achievement of youth around the country. Mr. Thomas service to educational, anti-crime, and anti-poverty programs began in Detroit when he was in the NBA and continues in many more cities across the United States.
One World Products, Inc. is a holding company and conducts its business in Colombia through One World Pharma, S.A.S., a Colombian company (OWP SAS), its wholly owned subsidiary. OWP SAS has the licenses to cultivate, produce and distribute the raw ingredients of the cannabis and hemp plant for medicinal, scientific, and industrial purposes in the town of Esmeralda-Popayan, Cauca, Colombia. Its business involves the cultivating, processing, and supplying crude cannabis oil, distillate and isolate to customer specifications. OWP SAS owns approximately 30 acres and has a covered greenhouse built specifically to cultivate high-grade cannabis and hemp. In addition, it has entered into agreements with local farming co-operatives that include small farmers and indigenous tribe members, under, which they cultivate cannabis on up to approximately 140 acres of land using the Company seeds and propagation techniques and sell their harvested products to the Company on an exclusive basis.