The Board of Directors of Canopy Growth Corp. provides the leadership and oversight needed to forge an industry leader in an emerging industry. The Board is fully committed to our stakeholders and shareholders, leveraging decades of collective corporate governance experience to provide stability and growth over the long term.
DAVID LAZZARATO – Chair of the Board, Member of the Audit Committee and Member of the CGCN Committee
David Lazzarato serves as Chair of the Board, is a member of the Audit Committee and a member of the CGCN Committee as well. Mr. Lazzarato’s impressive career includes senior executive positions with Alliance Atlantis Communications, Allstream, Bell Canada, and CAE. Mr. Lazzarato has served on corporate and not-for-profit boards for two decades and is currently serving on the Board of Directors of Flutter Entertainment (Dublin) and is the Chair of their Risk and Sustainability Committee and a member of its Audit Committee. Mr. Lazzarato brings to the Board a demonstrated commercial and financial acumen to assist businesses going through pivotal inflection points.
TERRY YANOFSKY – Director, Chair of the CGCN Committee and Member of the Audit Committee
Theresa Yanofsky currently serves as a member of the Board where she also acts as the Chair of the CGCN Committee as well as a member of the Audit Committee. Ms. Yanofsky has extensive experience working with big-name retailers and is respected for her strategic leadership and disciplined approach to driving revenue. Ms. Yanofsky brings over 30 years of experience working with rapidly growing big-name global retailers, serving as a board member for Reitmans (Canada) Ltd., (“Reitmans”), a Canadian-based retailer listed on the TSX, since August, 2019. She has also served as a member of the board of directors of Goodfood Market Corp., a leading online grocery company in Canada listed on the TSX, since July 2019. Most recently, Ms. Yanofsky was appointed as a board member for Purolator Inc., a leading integrated freight, package and logistics provider, in April, 2022. Ms. Yanofsky served as the Senior Vice-President, General Manager of Sephora Canada from 2015 until her retirement in 2020; prior to which she worked at L Brands where she was the country manager for Bath & Body Works Canada. Ms. Yanofsky brings over 30 years of experience working with rapidly growing big-name global retailers as well as significant senior management and public company board and corporate governance experience.
LUC MONGEAU– Chief Executive Officer and Director
With a proven track record of leading and elevating organizations, Mr. Mongeau joins Canopy Growth with over 25 years’ experience as a senior executive. He has demonstrated expertise in marketing, sales, supply chain operations, and M&A. Most recently as the CEO of ESolutions Furniture, formerly Bestar-Bush, Mr. Mongeau led the transformation of the business to deepen its share of the highly competitive digital commerce furniture industry. This included implementing a new approach to design and sourcing, reconfiguring the North American manufacturing network, and enhancing the company’s global supply chain. Prior to this, during Mr. Mongeau’s five-year tenure as President of Weston Foods, he spearheaded the strategic realignment and end-to-end operational leadership of the $2 billion North American bakery, overseeing a team of over 6,000 employees across 40 facilities. He directed the development of commercial strategies across branded and private label categories for major North American retailers and managed the sale of Weston Foods. Additionally, in his role as President of Mars Petcare North America, Mr. Mongeau provided strategic and operational leadership to a $3 billion North American organization with more than 3,000 employees, 27 manufacturing sites, and three distinct operating units within both branded and private label categories. Mr. Mongeau holds a Bachelor of Science from the Université de Sherbrooke and an MBA from the Ivey School of Business at Western University. He has also completed executive education at Harvard Business School.
SHAN ATKINS – Director and Member of the Audit Committee
M. Shan Atkins, ICD.D, NACD.DC serves as a member of the Board where she also acts as a member of the Audit Committee. Ms. Atkins is a business executive and independent board director with extensive experience in retail strategy and operations, consumer goods, wholesale distribution, cybersecurity oversight, accounting and finance, and private investment in both the U.S. and Canada having served on the boards of eleven public and large private companies since beginning her board service in 1999 while an executive in the retail industry. Ms. Atkins is a former partner in the consumer and retail practice of international consultancy Bain & Company where she developed and executed strategic plans for major retail organizations. She also served as a C-suite executive at a Fortune 15 public retailer, where she led a multi-billion-dollar business unit. Ms. Atkins has received numerous accolades in her directorship career, including being recognized in 2025 as one of the top 250 Directors in America by Wall Street Journal. She presently serves on the boards of two U.S. public companies –Darden Restaurants (NYSE: DRI) and SpartanNash (NASD: SPTN), where she chairs the audit committee at both companies and serves on the Governance and Nominating Committee at Darden and the Compensation Committee at SpartanNash. During the past five years, Ms. Atkins also served on the following public company boards of directors: Aurora Cannabis, Inc., a Canadian cannabis company, from 2019 to 2023; SunOpta, Inc., a North American manufacturer of natural and organic food products, from 2014 to 2019; LSC Communications, Inc., a leading provider of long and short-run printing services to the book, catalog and magazine publishing industries, from 2016 to 2021. Ms. Atkins has been an observer on the Board of Canopy Growth since April 1, 2025.
JOE BAYERN – Director
Joe Bayern is a dynamic leader with a history of creating shareholder value through turnarounds, organic growth and business model transformations. He has a deep understanding of the consumer products industry domestically as well as internationally and has been part of large multi-national organizations, mid-sized growth companies and startups. Mr. Bayern has worked with some of the most globally recognized brands such as Snapple, Dr. Pepper and Voss Water, and companies including Deloitte LLP, Cadbury Schweppes, (“Cadbury”) and Curaleaf Holdings, Inc. (“Curaleaf”). Most recently, Mr. Bayern served as the CEO of GCC MSO Management LLC d/b/a Glorious Cannabis Company, a cannabis company with operations in Michigan and Massachusetts, from October 2023 to October 2024. Prior to that, Mr. Bayern served as an executive officer of Curaleaf from December 2019 to January 2023, including serving as President from December 2019 until December of 2020 and CEO from January 2021 until May 2022. Prior to his involvement with Curaleaf, Mr. Bayern served as the President of a California-based cannabis start-up, Indus Holdings, Inc. (“Indus”) from January 2019 to December 2019, where he successfully helped the company raise $40 million and complete its go public transaction, pursuant to which Indus’ shares were listed for trading on the Canadian Stock Exchange. Prior to entering the cannabis industry in January of 2019, Mr. Bayern was part of the team that helped Voss of Norway, a company that bottles and sells drinking water from Norway (“Voss”), make Voss a globally recognized brand. During his tenure at Voss, Mr. Bayern served as Chief Operating Officer from January 2011 to December 2017 and then CEO from December 2017 until November 2018. At Voss, Mr. Bayern helped grow the business from $25 million to $100 million, raised growth capital and executed a partial sale to a strategic buyer. While running global strategy for Cadbury from September 2003 until August 2006, and U.S. strategy for Cadbury’s beverage business from August 2006 to November 2007, which included Dr. Pepper and Snapple brands, he was part of the team that transformed Cadbury into a pure play confectionery leader, which ultimately was acquired by Kraft Foods Inc. and resulted in the formation of the Dr. Pepper Snapple Group in 2008. At Snapple Beverage Group (“Snapple”) from December 1997 to August 2003, Mr. Bayern was part of the executive team responsible for the turnaround of Snapple under the ownership of The Triarc Beverage Group (“Triarc”). Triarc bought Snapple from The Quaker Oats Company for $300 million in 1997 and sold the business to Cadbury Schweppes plc for $1.4 billion in 2000. Prior to joining Snapple, Mr. Bayern spent 12 years in various accounting and management consulting roles, including as a Senior Manager of Management Consulting with Deloitte LLP. Mr. Bayern has been an observer on the Board of Canopy Growth since April 1, 2025.