Session: Learn how one brand is driving product innovation and market success within the current regulatory environment.
Speaker: – Henry Sicignano of Charlie’s Holdings
Date: January 30th, 2024 – Las Vegas,NV
About The Speaker: Henry Sicignano, III, is an accomplished executive with a 25-year track record leading companies that provide adult smokers with better alternatives to conventional combustible cigarettes. Mr. Sicignano currently serves as the President of Charlie’s Holdings, Inc. (OTCQB: CHUC), an industry leader in the premium vapor products space. Charlie’s has received FDA acceptance filings for more than 500 Premarket Tobacco Product Applications (PMTAs) for the Company’s conventional products. This year Charlie’s launched SPREE BAR™, a flavored disposable pod system that features nicotine substitute Metatine™ and is not subject to FDA PMTA review.
Previously, Mr. Sicignano served as President and CEO of 22nd Century Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: XXII), a plant biotechnology company with more than 200 issued patents on the genes in the tobacco plant that regulate nicotine production. Mr. Sicignano assembled scientific and regulatory teams to develop Very Low Nicotine (VLN) cigarettes with at least 95% less nicotine than any of the 100 leading cigarette brands in the US. In December 2021 the FDA deemed 22nd Century’s VLN brand cigarettes the world’s first – and only – modified risk cigarettes.
Previously, Mr. Sicignano built the super-premium consumer brand Natural American Spirit and sold the parent company to RJ Reynolds for $356 million in 2002.
Mr. Sicignano currently serves as Chairman of the Audit Committee for Kartoon Studios (NYSE American: TOON) and also as a board member of Greenwave Technology Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: GWAV). He served on the Board of Directors of Anandia Laboratories, Inc., a cannabis-focused science company, from December 2014 until the company was sold in 2018 to Aurora Cannabis (NYSE: ACB). Mr. Sicignano holds a B.A. degree from Harvard College and an M.B.A. degree from Harvard University.
