Press Release – Helius Therapeutics Mary Alice Simon has been appointed Chief Operating Officer (COO) at Helius Therapeutics – New Zealand’s largest licenced medicinal cannabis company. Ms Simon joins Helius with extensive experience in the pharmaceuticals industry – both in Operations and Quality Assurance. Most recently, she was Head of Operations – Healthcare at API Consumer Brands, following four years as Head of Quality overseeing API’s pharmaceutical and personal care manufacturing plants in Auckland. Previously, she was Head of Quality Assurance at Diatranz Otsuka Limited – formerly Living Cell Technologies. She also spent five years as Director of Data Management and Process Improvement at Penobscot Community Health Care in the United States.