Notre équipe

Conseil d’administration

President

Samuel Tam

Sam Tam est au service de l’industrie du vapotage depuis 2013. Il occupe le poste de chef des affaires juridiques et de responsable de la conformité chez Pacific Smoke International. Pacific Smoke est une société de distribution mondiale avec des partenaires et des fournisseurs internationaux dans plus de 30 pays. Il participe activement au plaidoyer pour l’industrie de la vape. Son équipe a été responsable de l’élaboration du document d’orientation de l’ACV pour les règlements d’étiquetage et d’emballage des produits de vapotage afin d’aider l’industrie à naviguer dans les exigences réglementaires (VPLPR). L’engagement de Sam envers la conformité réglementaire permet de garantir que l’industrie respecte les normes définies par Santé Canada. Sam est également membre du comité technique des normes pour Underwriter’s Laboratory UL 8139, dont la responsabilité principale est de développer des produits de vapotage sûrs qui répondent à toutes les exigences des systèmes électriques pour la sécurité des consommateurs.

Vice President

Charles Pisano

Charles Pisano, CVA’s current Vice President has been a CVA member since the organization’s founding. Charles currently runs the e-liquid production facility at VapeMeet Inc. – one of Canada’s premier vaping companies with retail locations across Ontario and a GMP/HACCP/ISO 9001:2015 lab at the forefront of the industry.

Treasurer

Shaun Casey

Shaun Casey was the founding Director and creator of the CVA in 2014. Since then he has served the CVA as their Treasurer, Vice President and 2.5 years as President and Chair to the Board.  A current elected Director, he is also a chief advocate with Health Canada for the Board’s government relations committee. Shaun has again accepted the role of board treasurer.  Shaun also sits on many USA and international advocacy boards.  He is North American CEO and global partner in Flavourart, the largest global flavour house specializing in vape flavouring. He lives in Niagara, Ontario with his family where his N.A flavouring manufacturing site is also located.

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Director

Shai Bekman is the Founder and CEO of Dash Vapes Inc. Dash Vapes is the leading online and Brick and Mortar retailer with 12 locations in Canada servicing more than 100,000 clients and processing 50,000 orders on  a monthly basis.

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Director

Robert Burnaccioni

Robert Burnaccioni has been a CVA member since 2015 and joined as director of the Canadian Vaping association in 2020. In 2015, Robert founded 416 Vapes Inc, one of Canada’s premier manufacturing and distribution vaping companies with the goal of ensuring that Canadians looking to quit smoking by vaping had quality eLiquid available to them. It was important to Robert that he and his team were creating safe products and built an accredited GMP/HACCP/ISO 9001:2015 lab located in Barrie, Ontario. It has always been important to him to support advocacy in Canada, and the organization’s strong position on advocating for fair and equitable vaping in regulations in Canada is something that he would 100% get behind. Robert is looking forward to working with the Communications Team and supporting them in getting that message across to regulators and Canadians. The message is clear, vaping isn’t smoking and it should never be regulated the same.
 

Director

Danielle Chesney

Alt Vape is an Alberta-based vape retailer founded by Danielle Chesney and partners. The company opened its first Calgary location in late 2017 and has since expanded across the province, with stores in Calgary, Cochrane, Lethbridge, and Edmonton. Alt Vape is dedicated to safe and informed distribution of vaping products and is an industry leader in age-gating best practices. Alt Vape first began testing Patronscan’s age-gating software in 2019 and has since implemented the software at all locations across Alberta, as well as altvape.ca. Rather than web users having to simply input their birthday to enter Alt Vape’s eCommerce platform, a practice easily skirted by minors, shoppers are required to scan their authentic government-issued ID using their smartphone. This provides a viable and secure form of age-gating, that helps to prevent minors from accessing age-restricted content.
“We want the government to see that our industry can be part of the solution,” says Danielle Chesney, CEO of Alt Vape. “While we can’t monitor or police anything outside of our walls and digital storefronts, and we know nothing is foolproof, there are significant steps we can take ourselves to drastically reduce exposure of our products to minors. As an industry, we should be collectively taking action to protect our businesses and our communities.”
 
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Director

Kevin Cox

Co-Owner and Co-Founder of Cloud Haven E-liquids and Cloud Haven Labs inc. We began our journey in 2016, when we first incorporated and began wholesaling our products to vape shops. Driven purely by our passion for vaping, as it helped us quit smoking for good and we wanted to share that experience with others as well. We began our journey in Red Deer Alberta and eventually found ourselves building our facility in Saskatoon SK, where we currently reside. Dedication to quality products manufactured in a state of the art facility, we strive for excellence in everything we do and we are passionate about advocacy and supporting responsible and reasonable regulations, to ensure that consumers have access to the greatest tobacco harm reduction products available, while keeping these products out of the hands of minors.

Director

Jason Flynn

Jason Flynn is the CEO of Vape Escapes 2 locations in the Niagara Region since 2014 CEO of Refined Liquid Labs. Since 2019 but e-liquid manufacturer since 2016 Comfortable and experienced speaking to politicians, delegates and the press. Protested and demonstrated at countless events from Ottawa to Washington.

Director

Mike Smider

Eden Sorrell est le PDG et cofondateur de Theravape, une entreprise de fabrication d’e-liquides accréditée ISO9001 fondée par professionnels de la santé en 2013. Theravape a deux magasins de détail et une présence en ligne. Eden a appris la signification du travail acharné dans les sables bitumineux de l’Alberta puis dans les soins infirmiers aux soins intensifs. Cela l’a préparé pour un marathon de 7 ans de menaces externes sans fin envers son entreprise dans l’industrie du vapotage et pour un cours intensif en politique. Maintenant inscrit au programme Asper MBA, il est ravi d’affûter ses outils pour tous les défis qui l’attendent.
 
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Director

Eden Sorrell

Eden Sorrell est le PDG et cofondateur de Theravape,
une entreprise de fabrication d’e-liquides accréditée ISO9001 fondée par professionnels de la santé en 2013.
Theravape a deux magasins de détail et une présence en ligne.  Eden a appris la signification du travail acharné dans les sables bitumineux de l’Alberta puis dans les soins infirmiers aux soins intensifs. Cela l’a préparé pour un marathon de 7 ans de menaces externes sans fin envers son entreprise dans l’industrie du vapotage et pour un cours intensif en politique.
Maintenant inscrit au programme Asper MBA,
il est ravi d’affûter ses outils pour tous les défis qui l’attendent.