Emblem Corp. ("Emblem" or the "Company") announced it has appointed Maria Guest as Chief Marketing Officer to its executive team. The company welcomed Kim Horrill as Vice President of Medical Marketing and Tim Andrews as Vice President, Creative Director. The foregoing appointments remain subject to the approval of the TSX Venture Exchange. Prior to joining Emblem, Maria Guest spent 20 years building brands and developing new products and innovations within the highly regulated and competitive alcohol industry. Ms. Guest most recently led marketing efforts behind iconic brands like Corona, Stella Artois, Bud Light, Michelob Ultra, and Alexander Keith's. She has also led new product innovations for prominent brands that include Budweiser, Bud Light, and Labatt Blue. Within her extensive portfolio, Ms. Guest spearheaded the successful launch of Bud Light Lime in Canada, as well as introduced Labatt's first hard cider product to the Canadian market. Ms. Guest will lead the Company's adult-use strategy, including the development of unique brands that will speak to various segments of the Canadian adult-use cannabis market. As Chief Marketing Officer, Ms. Guest will leverage her extensive marketing and brand development experience, as well as her understanding of product distribution in a regulated industry to help grow Emblem's presence across the country. Kim Horrill brings extensive health care and pharmaceutical experience to Emblem, including working as both a critical care nurse and an acute care nurse practitioner/clinical nurse specialist in pain management. She also spent over a decade with a major Canadian pharmaceutical company in both its Commercial and Medical Sciences Divisions and served as an Assistant Professor at Western University, teaching in the School of Medicine and Nursing. As Vice President of Medical Marketing with Emblem, Ms. Horrill will oversee the Company's medical outreach program. Along with Emblem's team of professional medical liaisons, she will educate and engage healthcare professionals across the country on the value of medical cannabis and the benefits of Emblem's current and future cannabinoid-based pharmaceutical formulations. Tim Andrews was most recently founder, partner and creative director at Slide Communications. At Slide, Tim provided creative, strategy and design services for clients including Emblem Cannabis, Ayr Farmers Mutual, BridgePoint Financial, Calliope Interpreters, Executive Aviation, Great Lakes Ginseng, Pauwels Travel, and the United Way (Brant & Oakville). Prior to founding Slide, Tim provided creative and strategic leadership through broadcast, print, digital and experiential projects for Labatt, Stella Artois, Sears, Franklin Templeton Funds, The Government of Canada, Burger King, J&J, Clarica and FujiFilm. At Emblem, Tim will be the in-house creative lead, overseeing all of the brand development and marketing collateral across its adult-use and medical product portfolios. He will work alongside its agency partners to support go-to-market plans.