Honorable Jerry Grafstein, QC will join Captiva’s Board of Directors
CAPTIVA VERDE ANNOUNCES NEW ADDITION TO THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
La Quinta, California – July 12, 2016 Captiva Verde Industries Ltd. (“Captiva Verde” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that the Honorable Jerry Grafstein, QC will join Captiva’s Board of Directors at the Captiva Verde Annual General Meeting to be held on September 8th, 2016.
The Hon. Jerry S. Grafstein, Q.C., holds degrees from the University of Western Ontario and the University of Toronto Law School and has taught the Bar Admission Course at Osgoode Hall. He has wide-ranging legal and business experience in all aspects of media. Mr. Grafstein was a co-founder of a range of media companies, focusing on broadcasting, cable, communications, film production and publication enterprises in Canada, the USA, the UK, and South America. Mr. Grafstein recently co- founded on-line news sites from Canada, USA, Brazil, China, Russia, Africa, UK, Europe and the Mideast including a site from Hollywood and a Fashion site. He advised several key government ministries, including Transportation, External Affairs, Consumer and Corporate Affairs and Justice.
Mr. Grafstein was appointed to the Senate of Canada in 1984 by then Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Mr. Grafstein served on all Senate Committees, including the Agriculture and Forestry, Foreign Affairs and the Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committees. He served as Chairman of the Senate Banking, Trade and Commerce Committee. While in the Senate, he was a long serving Co- Chair of the Canada-United States Inter-Parliamentary Group, and a long serving senior officer of the Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA). Mr. Grafstein retired from the Senate on January 1, 2010. He continues his law practice in corporate finance and communication law and as counsel emeritus to Minden Gross LLP in Toronto and remains active in the local affairs in Toronto. He now devotes most of his business time to tech start- ups in Canada, U.S.A. and South America.
On behalf of the Board of Directors
