{"id":10261,"date":"2019-05-05T16:34:01","date_gmt":"2019-05-05T19:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=10261"},"modified":"2019-05-05T16:34:01","modified_gmt":"2019-05-05T19:34:01","slug":"waverleys-greg-hughes-appointed-nslc-president-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=10261","title":{"rendered":"Waverley\u2019s Greg Hughes appointed NSLC president, CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>WAVERLEY:<\/strong>\n A Waverley man has been appointed the new president and CEO of the Nova\n Scotia Liquor Corporation (NSLC), the province announced on May 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finance and Treasury Board Minister Karen Casey announced the appointment of Greg Hughes in a release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\n are pleased to have Mr. Hughes join the NSLC as president and CEO,\u201d \nsaid Casey. \u201cMr. Hughes comes to the role with extensive corporate \nleadership experience, which will benefit the NSLC as it continues to \nimplement its expanded mandate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hughes is an executive and \nentrepreneur with a progressive career in financial management, business\n operations, leadership, and client relations. He has experience as a \npresident and CEO of CleanEarth Technologies, which he purchased and \nrebuilt. Most recently he founded CleanEarth Industrial Services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He\n also has more than 20 years at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce \n(CIBC) in Halifax and was formerly general manager of operations for \nAtlantic Canada. He has a bachelor of commerce degree from Saint Mary\u2019s \nUniversity and is chair of the board of the Nova Scotia chapter of the \nChildren\u2019s Wish Foundation of Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very pleased and \nexcited about this new opportunity. It is an honour to be appointed to \nthis position and to be working with the exceptional team at the NSLC,\u201d \nsaid Hughes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The appointment will be effective May 31. His salary will be $243,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hughes\u2019s\n appointment follows a national search conducted after the departure of \nformer NSLC president Bret Mitchell in February. NSLC board chair George\n McLellan has been acting in the position in the interim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The NSLC\n manages the safe and responsible sale of beverage alcohol and \nrecreational cannabis in Nova Scotia. For more information about the \nNSLC, visit myNSLC.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WAVERLEY: A Waverley man has been appointed the new president and CEO of the Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation (NSLC), the province announced on May 1. Finance and Treasury Board Minister Karen Casey announced the appointment of Greg Hughes in a release. \u201cWe are pleased to have Mr. Hughes join the NSLC as president and CEO,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[167],"tags":[492,493,16],"class_list":["post-10261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-greg-hughes","tag-nslc","tag-waverley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}