AMPD Ventures Inc (CSE:AMPD, OTCQB:AMPDF) said its Vancouver-based subsidiary Departure Lounge Inc has appointed Monica Morgan as vice president of Real Estate and Projects.
Morgan is transitioning from her role as consultant during the early stages of the company’s development to join the company on a full-time basis as co-founder.
“Monica adds to the considerable depth of the Departure Lounge’s management team with her unique expertise, entrepreneurial approach, and multi-industry contacts,” said James Hursthouse, CEO of Departure Lounge in a statement. “She has never been afraid to push the boundaries of what is possible and excels at finding new and emerging opportunities to work collaboratively with multiple stakeholders on complex projects in new and emerging industry spaces.”
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With almost 30 years of experience working in the public, private and non-profit sectors, including the past seven years as an entrepreneur running her own project management consulting company, Morgan brings a unique blend of experience to leverage the technology and creative expertise of Departure Lounge, the company said.
Morgan is an expert in public sector land and real estate development partnership structuring and has spent much of the past 20 years developing public anchors of innovation districts and precincts with multi-sector partners including government, universities, and industry. She has undertaken project planning activities securing billions of dollars of public sector investment for healthcare, hospital, housing, and post-secondary capital projects resulting in significant community, economic, environmental and shareholder benefits, the company added.
“Departure Lounge and its sister company, AMPD Technologies, are addressing some of today’s most pressing community and market opportunities at the intersection of land, buildings, and emerging technologies. The combination of sustainable high-performance computing, advanced capture tools and technologies, along with 3D spatial creative and Web3.0 services can generate new and innovative ways of defining a future that we all want to be participating in – it is very exciting,” Morgan said.
At Departure Lounge, Morgan has responsibility for domestic and international real estate opportunities, partnerships, and projects, the company said.
Departure Lounge was established in June 2021 to combine the founding team’s expertise to capitalise on the massive opportunity represented by the ongoing transition to the metaverse. The company offers innovative tools and technologies to facilitate access to the metaverse, a creative services team to help build the metaverse, and a Web3 consultancy team to monetize the metaverse.
Departure Lounge was acquired by AMPD Ventures in December 2021.
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