Our people
The people accountable for quality, compliance and partnership at Verdant.
Meet the team
Every batch we release is overseen by accountable people.
Matt Mason
Matt Mason has been involved in the South African cannabis industry since 2015. He studied law specifically to enter its regulated side, and in 2021 he founded Verdant Pharmaceuticals to give licensed buyers and cultivators a compliant, single point of access to global licensed supply.
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Matt leads Verdant as a SAHPRA-licensed aggregator and fine packager, backed by a South African GMP certificate and SAPC Grade A wholesale pharmacy registration. He sets the company's strategy, building the partnerships and supply network that connect licensed buyers and cultivators, and works closely with our Quality Lead and Responsible Pharmacist so that growth never gets ahead of compliance.
Marianne Brown
Marianne holds a BSc in Plant Pathology from the University of KwaZulu-Natal and has more than 25 years' experience in agriculture, in senior quality roles at Pannar Seed, DuPont Pioneer and Corteva Agriscience. Since 2019 she has worked in the cannabis sector, co-founding CanAgri Global and advising operators on licensing, facility set-up and SOPs.
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Marianne Brown is Verdant's Quality Lead. She oversees the quality system behind our SAHPRA-licensed aggregation and fine packaging, and our SAPC Grade A wholesale pharmacy: the SOPs, change control, deviations and self-inspections that keep every consignment documented and traceable. She checks our SOPs and trains our team on the quality system.
For our partners, she is the person behind onboarding. She qualifies customers and suppliers, including cultivators who supply at GACP and those who supply GMP material from the start, and she is our single point of contact with SAHPRA, including permit work for import and export.
Aphelele Ngubane
Aphelele Ngubane is a registered pharmacist with a BPharm degree and five years' experience in pharmacy practice.
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Aphelele Ngubane is Verdant's Responsible Pharmacist and Head of Quality Assurance. She is the pharmacist in charge of our wholesale pharmacy and authorises the release of every batch before it leaves our facility.
She oversees the control of scheduled substances through receipt, storage and dispatch, and works with the Quality Lead to keep our quality system and partner checks to the standard licensed buyers and cultivators expect. She also reviews regulatory content on our pack artwork alongside the Quality Lead.
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