ASIF420 is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Zehariya Paz to the newly-created position of Chief Cultivation Officer. This addition will further strengthen its team and advance the Company’s international expansion strategy, cultivation practices and results in terms of yield, quality, consistency and cost-effectiveness as it continues to execute across these areas and solidify its position as a world leader within the industry.

Mr. Paz has a well-earned reputation as one of the world’s foremost experts on commercial cannabis cultivation with decades of experience managing and designing thousands of grows worldwide. His expertise, hands on approach and product development background has led to top quality grow room design and construction.

Over the last 27 years, Mr. Paz has designed, consulted, constructed dozen of facilities and projects all around the globe, including South Africa, Turkey, Israel, Canada and Spain. He is still retained as lead advisor/consultant for multiple licensed grows. With expertise in greenhouse and indoor cultivation, Mr. Paz is well known for his commercial automated integration and proven track record of highly efficient redundant designs.

In April of 2020, he joined the planning and implementation of a 10,000 sq. meter. cultivation center just outside of South Africa, helping to design and build what would become the first licensed cultivation and EU-GMP processing facility in Lesotho, being awarded its cultivation and export license in December of 2019.