Paul joined CBD of Denver as its new CEO and President on March 1, 2022.

Paul has more than 15 years of capital markets experience, including over a decade as a Managing Director on the Bank of Montreal’s (BMO) equity desk in London, U.K. BMO is a top ten bank in North America, with a thriving capital markets business. For the past four years, Gurney has led BMO’s efforts in the cannabis space in Europe. Prior to BMO, he spent seven years as a senior salesperson at IBM.

Previously, Paul Gurney was a Managing Director at BMO Capital Markets in London, UK, leading BMO’s coverage of large institutional equity clients in Europe and Asia Pacific. Paul has 15 years of capital markets experience, researching companies, syndicating transactions, structuring deals, and providing value-added advice to institutional and corporate clients across multiple sectors. In early 2018, BMO became the first major bank to underwrite the cannabis sector, leading a US$175m equity financing for the world’s largest cannabis company, Canopy Growth. Paul has been closely involved in the sector in Europe ever since, helping raise US$153m for Tilray’s IPO, the first ever NASDAQ listed cannabis company.

Gurney received a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Western Ontario and an MBA from the University of Toronto.