Weeding Out Challenges
HAVING SPENT 25 years working with high-growth startups as a Chartered Accountant, Mark Corbett, the Managing Director of Highlands Investments, found himself working with a cannabis company based in Lesotho, a land-locked kingdom encircled by South Africa.
“I was intrigued by a category that was causing so much disruption across multiple industries including healthcare, consumer brands, tobacco, alcohol and agriculture. I felt it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be part of this evolution and play a role in what is essentially the end of another prohibition.
“I am also a very firm advocate for the move away from lifestyle medications like opiates to
