Drew Green

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Drew Green, Director

Drew Green is an award winning chief executive officer, entrepreneur and expert in managing fast-paced, high-growth companies. A visionary leader, Drew has created one of the world's fastest growing apparel brands. Since 2015, he has established significant strategic capital, hired a world class management team and created global alliances that has led to over +500% growth, significantly increasing profitability KPI's. Over the past five years, INDOCHINO created, launched and then expanded to 50 showrooms, employing over 800 people, with another 1700 people working daily to produce the one of a kind garments each INDOCHINO customer creates.

Previously recognized as top 40 under 40, as well as CEO of the year, Drew has been recognized for his accomplishments throughout his career. In 2017, Drew was awarded the Innovation in Retail award by the University of Alberta. In 2018 he was awarded Breakout Retailer of the Year by Chain Store Age, and in 2018, Drew was selected as The Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst and Young. In 2019, Canadian Business announced that between 2015-2019, INDOCHINO was the #1 fastest growing Canadian retailer, with sales globally, and third fastest growing retailer in Canada amongst retailers with revenues over $100M.

Prior to INDOCHINO, Drew founded and was chief executive officer of SHOP.CA, Canada's first multimerchant marketplace, which is now owned by EMERGE. Throughout his career, Drew has played key roles at companies that have created billions in shareholder value through leadership roles at DoubleClick (acquired by Google), SHOP.COM (acquired by Market America) and Flonetwork (acquired by DoubleClick).

In addition to EMERGE, Drew is currently chairman of five publicly listed or pre public listed companies, including AIRES TECH (CSE: WIFI), LUCK BOX (reserved ticker TSXV: LUCK), BRUUSH (reserved ticker TSXV: BRSH) and APOLLO INSURANCE (reserved ticker TSXV: APLO). As a dedicated mentor to Canadian entrepreneurs, Drew is the founder, chairman, or an investor in 25 Canadian companies that drive innovation and growth within retail, direct to consumer products, insurance, artificial intelligence, technology, and real estate. A sought after expert, Drew has presented to hundreds of thousands of people, and has been quoted in more than 3,000 news articles, globally.