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    Toby Noiles: one woman breaking barriers in cannabis

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    Toby Noiles is one woman breaking barriers in CBD and cannabis, leveraging her extensive experience to take on the unforeseen challenges of building brands in the sector.

    Senior executive Tony Noiles has more than 30 years of experience in leadership positions across the retail food channel within North America. Noiles is now implementing her expertise to build out two brands in the CBD sector.

    Noiles has been part of the premium CBD brand, Sky Wellness’ executive team leading operations, sales, eCommerce and supply chain as the Chief Operating Officer since 2020. In 2021, Noiles also joined N2 Packaging Systems – a high-end cannabis packaging company – where she serves also as the company’s COO. 

    Leveraging her dual citizenship in the USA and Canada, Noiles will be responsible for building best-in-class sales, customer service, business development, fulfilment, and logistics operations for all of North America.

    As an experienced senior executive with a proven track record delivering accelerated P&L performance in a wide range of businesses from startups to revenue responsibilities of $19bn, Noiles has proven to be a level frontline leader with the intensity and determination to drive transformation and innovation within a culture of teamwork and continuous learning. 

    “I am a customer-centric, data-driven progressive leader that believes in fully informed decision making leveraging the experience of cross-functional, diverse teams and data sources,” says Noiles.

    “Innovation and building strong strategic relationships internally and externally are a priority in my leadership style as well as empowering team members and partners to lead and grow vs. just execute.”

    Noiles has led transformational strategies and delivering profitable share growth in companies such as Safeway, Sam’s Club, Fresh Direct and Northwest Co., and, throughout her career, has proven to be an innovative and transformational leader accustomed to full P&L responsibilities driving bottom-line growth, customer loyalty, and employee engagement in both perishable and non-perishable operations. 

    In her current dual COO roles, Noiles will be taking on the challenges of building two brands in the current CBD and Cannabis space for consumer and trade respectively.

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    Stephanie Price

    Stephanie is a journalist for Business of Cannabis, writing about science, research, policy and industry developments in cannabis, CBD and psychedelics. In 2013 Stephanie gained her BA in English and Media, focusing on journalism and propaganda, where her magazine ‘Game Theory’ focused on developments and disruptors over the coming decade including cannabis, psychedelics, blockchain/crypto and free speech. In 2015 Stephanie received her National Council for the Training of Journalists (NCTJ) diploma whilst working as a reporter in North Wales. Stephanie has a specialism in Medical Cannabis: The Health Effects of THC and CBD through the University of Colorado, and a certificate from the Medical Cannabis Clinicians Society on “Medical Cannabis Explained”.