Board of Directors

Cody Shandraw (Chairman)

• Cody serves as a Managing Partner of Ambria Capital overseeing one of the most active investment programs in the psychedelics industry, focused on early-stage companies and non-traditional venture opportunities.
  
• Cody is passionate about advocating for psychedelic-assisted therapies and advancing their place in the mental healthcare landscape.
  
• Has backed more than 50 companies and supported many in growth to scale.

Katelin Holloway

• Katelin is a founding partner at Alexis Ohanian’s venture capital firm Seven Seven Six. Having spent her early career at Pixar Animation Studios, she parlayed her culture building skills to tech, dedicating over a decade to developing teams as a senior executive at some of the internet’s most influential startups, including Klout and Reddit.
  
• In early 2020, Katelin made the leap from operator to investor, helping founders and the broader venture ecosystem evolve their diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging practices, creating new opportunities and access to wealth for people and products typically underrepresented in the tech industry.
  
• As an investor, she is passionate about funding and supporting the companies that will shape the future of work, life, sustainability, and the delicate balance that enables us to thrive.

Ruth Chun

• Ruth Chun is a corporate commercial lawyer focused on providing legal advice to various companies from start-up to exit. She acted as general counsel for Newstrike Brands Ltd., raising over $150 million in financing, from the RTO transaction with Up Cannabis Inc. and sale to HEXO Corp. for $263 million. Recently, she acted for Silo Wellness Inc., a psychedelics company with operations in Oregon and Jamaica, that listed on the CSE via RTO transaction. Ms. Chun is a sought after speaker and is regularly called upon as a conference presenter and lecturer at several universities.
  
• Ruth is an independent director and chair of the board of directors of Entheon Biomedical Corp. (CSE: ENBI) and is on the Advisory Board for the Osgoode Certificate in Cannabis Law & Regulations. She also chairs the board of directors for the non-profit organization Sexual Assault and Violence Information Services of Halton and is a director of Milton Baptist Church.
  
• She is a past chairman of Rio Tinto’s pension fund for Rössing Uranium Mine and past trustee of the Alexander Forbes group of funds. In 2019 she was a finalist for the Canadian General Counsel Awards. She received an Honours BA (Trinity College) and MA from the University of Toronto and Juris Doctor from Queens University. Ms. Chun is admitted to legal practice in Ontario, New York and Namibia.