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Top 10 Online Ecommerce Leaders in America, Latest Ranking

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For the first time the total Online Ecommerce Revenues are expected to exceed Half a Trillion Dollars! The leading US online retailer continue to expand its lead.

1.  Amazon

2.  Ebay

3.  Walmart

4.  Apple

5.  Home Depot

6.  Best Buy

7.  Qurate Retail Group

8.  Macy's

9.  Costco

10. Wayfair

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Oncotelic Therapeutics, OTLC, is a unique Immuno-Oncology company at the cutting edge of medical research and discovery of precision medicine – Oncotelic is creating new pathways by combining AI tools to accelerate discovery by a magnitude, the AI (in the cloud) helps their team of scientists select the best and most effective molecules, eliminate subpar molecules from the earliest stage of discovery, thereby, saving precious time and increasing the chances of breakthrough discoveries, eliminating the probability of errors and omission by a significant margin, and by merging the AI tools with proven expertise in medicine, the Oncotelic team has cut the time and reduced R&D budget leakage and waste by a huge margin, at Oncotelic every R&D dollar is optimized to deliver better ROI and highly effective drugs/therapies in the most efficient manner than ever before.

Oncotelic is led by one of the most renowned scientists in America, a pioneer in immuno-oncology, a man with 39 Patents to his name and over 100 Patent Applications Pending – Dr. Vuong Trieu.

Dr. Vuong was a joint patent holder who helped develop the block-buster billion dollar drug Abraxane^™   - now owned by Bristol-Myers Squibb, NYSE: BMY, a $144 billion dollar company.

Dr. Vuong has put together a team of highly distinguished scientists and researchers, and a superb management team with years of proven marketing, brand building and scaling experience – a team that has turned startups into multi-billion dollar enterprises.

Oncotelic Developing Distinct Drugs Targeting Several Extremely Brutal Diseases (Each of them has the potential to be a block buster) let’s focus on one for now.

Primary Focus:

The one we are most excited about for the time being (without diminishing the importance of the other drugs that are in various stages of development) is a potential therapy that could increase the efficacy of an existing FDA approved drug (by as much as 100%) a drug that has generated over $17 billion in revenue last year alone and expected to hit $20 billion in 2025. The name of the drug is Keytruda owned by Merck.

Keytruda meet > OT-101

What Dr. Vuong and his excellent team did here is absolutely breathtaking! Dr. Vuong likes Keytruda, it’s great and it’s helping a lot of folks but it could do more, a whole lot more!  When you combine the existing drug (Keytruda) with Dr. Vuong's breakthrough discovery (after the FDA approval) the initial indications are that the rate of efficacy of Keytruda can increase by up to 100%!

Dr. Vuong’s newly discovered - inhibitor blocker eliminator – when given to patients along with Keytruda, the patients who are currently not benefiting can benefit! Imagine the relief combo-therapy can bring to the patients and their families around the world, right now, a lot of patients who can not benefit from Keytruda alone – can soon benefit from the combination therapy which Dr. Vuong has discovered!

Dr. Voung's discovery is one of the most brilliant things I’ve ever seen –  let me recap – A highly successful FDA approved Block Buster Drug that’s on the market today, whose efficacy can jump as much as 100% from where it is now – That’s what motivates me and the team at Oncotelic, a lot of patients and their families are needlessly suffering now!

As an investor you obviously look at the size of addressable market and that’s what motivates investors, right?  As I’ve mentioned Keytruda has made $17 billion for Merck last year – if Dr. Vuong’s invention/discovery helps increase the efficacy rate of Keytruda even by only 50%, you do the math!  We are talking about an opportunity worth billions! Think about it.

OT-101 Pipeline

Oncotelic is an artificial intelligence driven immuno-oncology company with a robust pipeline of first in class TGF-β immunotherapies for late stage cancers such as gliomas, pancreatic cancer and melanoma. OT-101, the lead immuno-oncology drug candidate of Oncotelic, is a first-in-class anti-TGF-β RNA therapeutic that exhibited single agent activity in relapsed/refractory cancer patients.

Rare Pediatric Cancer Designation

Oncotelic is seeking to leverage its deep expertise in oncology drug development to improve treatment outcomes and survival of cancer patients with a special emphasis on rare pediatric cancers. Oncotelic also has rare pediatric designation for DIPG (OT-101), melanoma (CA4P), and AML (OXi 4503). The Company also acquired ("PointR") Data in November 2019.

Management Team

Dr. Voung Trieu, PHD,  CEO, Chairman

Dr. Trieu, an expert in pharmaceutical development, currently serves as CEO/Chairman of Oncotelic Inc. Previously he was President and CEO of Igdrasol- developer of 2nd generation Abraxane- where he pioneer the regulatory pathway for approval of paclitaxel nanomedicine through a single bioequivalence trial against Abraxane. When Igdrasol merged with Sorrento Therapeutics, he became CSO and Board Director. He was Board Director of Cenomed- a company focusing on CNS drug development. Before that he was Director of Pharmacology, Pharmacokinetics, and Biology at Abraxis where he lead the development of albumin encapsulated therapeutics along building high throughput platform for small molecules, mirRNA, kinases. Prior to that he was Group Leader at Applied Molecular Evoluton where he was developing biobetter for Humira and Enbrel. Before that he was Director of Cardiovascular Biology at Parker Hughes Institute. Dr. Trieu holds a PhD in Microbiology, BS in Microbiology and Botany. He is member of ENDO, ASCO, AACR, and many other professional organization. Dr. Trieu published widely in oncology, cardiovascular, and drug development. Dr. Trieu has over 100 patent applications and 39 issued US patents.

Seymour Fein, MD, CMO

Dr. Fein’s professional activities have been focused on drug development research for over 35 years. He has been extensively involved in the successful evelopment of numerous drugs, biologics and medical devices over this time leading to FDA approvals for over 20 drugs (NDAs, sNDAs, BLAs) and devices (PMAs). Dr. Fein began his career at Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. as a senior research physician and was responsible for a clinical development program that led to U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of recombinant interferon-alpha for cancer treatment. Dr. Fein was also the medical director of Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals (U.S.) where he was responsible for therapeutic areas including gastroenterology, oncology, and cardiology. He later served as medical director for Rorer Group (now part of Sanofi) and Ohmeda (now part of Baxter). Dr. Fein founded and has been managing partner of a clinical and regulatory consulting organization and has worked closely with the Division of Gastroenterology and Inborn Errors Products at the FDA. He has participated in the development of and FDA approval of numerous drug products in many therapeutic areas. Dr. Fein has successfully overseen entrepreneurial drug development leading to the FDA approval of two orphan drug products in the field of gastroenterology.

Dr. Fein received his B.A. degree from the University of Pennsylvania and his M.D. degree with honors from New York Medical College. He completed a three-year residency in internal medicine at Dartmouth and a three-year fellowship in medical oncology and hematology at Harvard Medical School, where he served as an instructor of medicine during his final fellowship year. Dr. Fein is board-certified in both oncology and internal medicine.

Amit Shah, CFO

Amit Shah, age 53, has served as a senior financial officer for a number of life science companies, including Chief Financial Officer at Marina Biotech, Inc., a publicly traded biotechnology company (2017 to 2018); Vice President of Finance & Accounting and Acting Chief Financial Officer at Insightra Medical Inc. (2014 to 2015); VP Finance and Acting Chief Financial Officer at IgDraSol Inc. (2013); Corporate Controller & Director of Finance at ISTA Pharmaceuticals (2010 to 2012); Corporate Controller at Spectrum Pharmaceuticals (2007 to 2010): and as Controller / Senior Manager Internal Audits at Caraco Pharmaceuticals Laboratories (2000 to 2007). In addition to his work with life sciences companies, Mr. Shah served as the Chief Financial Officer at Eagle Business Performance Services, a management consulting and business advisory firm (2018 through March 2019) and as a consultant and ultimately Senior Director of Finance – ERP, at Young’s Market Company (2015 to 2017). Mr. Shah received a Bachelor’s of Commerce degree from the University of Mumbai, and is an Associate Chartered Accountant from The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. Mr. Shah is also an inactive CPA from Colorado, USA

Saran Saund, CBO/GM of AI Division

Silicon Valley entrepreneur, Saran has been founder, CEO and GM at startups and public companies. Passionate about applying technology innovations to real world markets, he successfully founded an AI consortium to accelerate enterprise adoption of AI which engaged leading universities and technology vendors. A startup veteran, his track record includes senior leadership roles at companies that were acquired by leaders such as Marvell (MRVL) and Qualcomm (QCOM). His startup Cybercash (CYCH) had a successful IPO on NASDAQ. Saran started his career at Xerox PARC pushing 1’s and 0’s as a software engineer

Anthony E. Maida III, PhD, Chief Clinical Officer-Translational Medicine

Dr. Maida, an expert in immuno-oncology, currently serves as Senior Vice President – Clinical Research at Northwest Biotherapeutics, Inc. Prior to joining Northwest Dr. Maida served as Vice President, Clinical Research and General Manager, Oncology, World-wide at PharmaNet, Inc. Prior to joining PharmaNet Dr. Maida served as Chairman, Founder and Director of BioConsul Drug Development Corporation and Principal of Anthony Maida Consulting International, servicing pharmaceutical firms, venture capital, hedge funds and Wall Street. Dr. Maida’s skill set includes the leading execution and oversight of finance, operations, research, clinical and scientific development, regulatory and manufacturing for the development of various oncology immunotherapies. Over the past 25 years Dr. Maida has served in a number of executive roles, including, Chairman, CEO, COO, CSO, CFO and business development. Over recent years Dr. Maida has raised, or assisted in financings, nearly $200 million for emerging biotechnology companies. Dr. Maida serves as an advisor, consultant and technical analyst for CMX Capital, LLC, Sagamore Bioventures, Roaring Fork Capital, Toucan Capital, North Sound Capital, The Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation and vFinance; the later three companies are located on the East Coast. Additionally, Dr. Maida has been retained by Abraxis BioScience, Inc., Northwest BioTherapeutics, Inc. and Takeda Chemical Industries, Ltd. (Osaka, Japan). Dr. Maida holds a Ph.D. in Immunology, a B.A. degree in Biology, a B.A. Degree in History, a MBA and a MA in toxicology. He is a member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), the American Association for Cancer Research

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Orchid Ventures Inc., ORCD, ORVRF, Profile, Summary

Orchid Ventures Inc., (CSE:ORCD) , (OTC:ORVRF), is an innovative and vertically integrated company offering high-quality handcrafted cannabis products to consumers. After extensive research and development, the flagship Orchid Ventures, Inc. brand, Orchid Essentials, launched in 2017. Orchid partnered with the leading manufacturer in vape hardware to create sleek and discrete delivery systems. These unique cartridges are powered by a long-lasting, heavy-duty battery with variable power settings. Additionally, Orchid partners with a team of scientists to create extracts made with strain-specific profiles utilizing cutting-edge terpene reintroduction technology to ensure each batch produces uniform flavor and effect. Combined, the cartridges and battery provide what many say to be the best experience for vaporizing cannabis and CBD.

The company is poised to meet the increasing demand from the fast-growing recreational market and the rapidly expanding CBD health-enhancing products market. According to Arcview Market Research and BDS Analytics, the global cannabis market is poised to reach $57 billion in size by 2027. The U.S. cannabis market is in line to reach $23 billion by 2025, based on New Frontier Data’s research.

The Products

The company’s flagship brand, Orchid Essentials, features proprietary, custom-designed vape devices. Vape devices are highly popular and quickly gaining a considerable market share in the cannabis space. These elegantly designed devices are powered by a highly energy-efficient, quick charging, long-lasting battery that can keep you puffing for up to two full 1-gram cartridges on a single charge, in comparison to many other batteries that would struggle to get through one on a single charge.The battery comes fully charged, ready to amaze and delight consumers as soon as they get it home and pair it with their favorite Orchid Essentials cartridge.

Orchid’s research partner has developed a wide variety of flavors that capture subtle notes and full-bodied taste and deliver a unique experience with every puff you take. One can easily experience the joy any time of the day or night. Among the most popular Orchid Essentials cartridges are Tropical Trainwreck, a strain that produces an uplifting, giggly effect and tastes of delicious citrus, and Jack Herer, one of the most popular Sativa strains available today, is loved for the boost of energy it imparts.

The utmost attention to detail and formulation ensures a consistent, smooth experience that both new users and vaping aficionados appreciate. All Orchid Essentials batteries also come with a full 365-day warranty.

Leadership

Corey Mangold, Founder / CEO and Director

Corey Mangold is the Principal and Co-Founder of Gigasavvy, a leading southern California creative marketing agency. He's established a thriving agency that has launched and managed campaigns for Toshiba, Knott's Berry Farm, Johnny Rockets, Hi-Chew Candy, Tenet Healthcare and Northgate Markets to name a few. Corey has also worked tirelessly to create a thriving culture at Gigasavvy that has been recognized, 3 years running, as a "Top 10 Places" to work in Orange County.

As the CEO of Orchid Essentials, Corey brings 20 years of start-up experience and a knack for developing successful companies. Corey's vision and extensive experience in marketing/advertising, branding, design, sales and product development has already established Orchid as the brand to beat in the market.

"We intend to scale business by establishing ourselves as the dominant vape product in each market that we enter. We will then follow up in each market and provide additional product options as we expand. We are very excited for the upcoming Orchid Ventures listing on the Canadian Securities Exchange, and furthering our plans for global expansion."

Rick Brown, President

Rick's career in general management and marketing has spanned multiple countries and across a diverse set of industries such as CPG, Retail, Healthcare, and Financial Services. During his career, he has specialized in both scaling up companies with high growth potential and transforming businesses to energize revenue growth. He is a creative and influential leader with a history of crafting and implementing breakthrough strategy and innovation by leveraging his marketing expertise with deep operational experience and a strong financial acumen. Rick has considerable experience as a senior executive working with Boards on designing and developing strategy then aligning the company, including the Board Of Directors, on key growth priorities.

Most recently Brown spent 5 years with H&R Block as President of their Canadian operations, where he had full P&L responsibility and led the growth of tax and financial services for this $300 million company, plus built a proprietary digital tax software platform and e-commerce business.

Prior to this Rick was Chief Marketing Officer and SVP, Sales and Business Development for a healthcare service company in the US called Smile Brands, a market leader in the dental care sector with $500 million in revenue, serving 2+ million patients annually. He played a major role in navigating the company through an IPO process which ended in the private sale of the company in 2011.

Tom Soto, Board Chairman

Tom Soto is a long-time investor in the impact sector. Having sold Craton Equity Partners to Trust Company of the West (TCW) in 2013, he became Managing Director of Alternatives at the $198 billion fund. He also served as an Investment Committee Member of TCW and Craton Alternatives.

His leadership, voice and investments have stood at the dovetail of energy, Tech, cloud based and IoT efficiency programs in renewables, and to over many Fourth Industrial Revolution driven platforms where technology contributes to improving the human condition. This ranges from Fintech, to electric vehicle technology and policy, to political process and regulatory frameworks needed to promote the new economics driving the planet into a future of prosperity and abundance. Tom has a full understanding and history of sourcing opportunities, performing full due diligence, modeling, building organizational performance and measurement capacity along with building boards of directors and leading portfolio companies toward successful exits.

Tom is currently Chair of the Advisory Board for Aura, which is the nation’s leading online microfinance institution based in Silicon Valley.

Robert MacDonald, Board Member

Robert MacDonald is an influential, trusted advisor with deep board and corporate governance expertise in energy, clean technology, banking and manufacturing industries. He has had success in raising billions of dollars in capital to catapult startups and growth companies into thriving, profitable entities. He has positioned businesses for successful IPO or sale; restructure underperforming operations while gaining investor confidence and capturing up to four times the capital investment. He achieved measurable results by controlling hold periods and formulating exit strategies. He has served on 23 board of directors for 16 private and seven public companies, raising over $8 billion in funds over his extensive career.

In 1981, MacDonald, together with two other former Salomon Brothers principals, founded Catalyst Energy Corporation. Catalyst grew to become one of the largest IPPs in the country and was worth over $1 billion with nearly 800 employees and revenues of $414 million. In 1988, Catalyst was sold to the Bronfman family for $1 billion. From this point, MacDonald continued to finance the development of more innovative environmental technologies and power production. From 1988 to 1992, he was a co-founder and co-chairman of Eastrock Partners in New York where he provided private investment and financial consulting services to a variety of clients. In 1993, he joined William E. Simon & Sons L.L.C. He then became President of Simon Private Equity and served on its investment committee where he was responsible for all aspects of the management of Simon Private Equity. In 2006 Mr. MacDonald co-founded Craton Equity Partners I & II with Tom Soto. After the sale of Craton II, Bob served as a Senior Advisor to a number of private equity funds.

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Waste Water to Energy System from SHARC available now in New York City

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SHARC Announces Agreement with HIGHMARK NY to Sell Its Waste Water Energy Recycling Systems in New York City Market

GlobeNewswire•March 23, 2018

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, March 23, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- SHARC International Systems Inc.  (CSE:SHRC) (IWIA.F) (INTWF)("SHARC") is pleased to announce that it has entered Sales Representative Agreements (“Sales Agreement”) with HIGHMARK NY, LLC (“HIGHMARK”).

Under the terms of the Sales Agreement, HIGHMARK has been authorized to sell Vancouver-based SHARC products throughout the New York City metro area, effective immediately.

The partnership combines SHARC’s unique and innovative waste water energy recycling technology, which provides efficient and economical space heating and cooling for commercial, residential and industrial buildings, with HIGHMARK’s commitment to reducing energy consumed and carbon emissions produced by New York City’s buildings.

New York City-based HIGHMARK is a pioneer in building efficiency as it searches the world for the most innovative products and technologies on the market. The team consists of a global network of HVAC professionals committed to ensuring buildings operate as efficiently as possible. Since its founding in 2013, the company has experienced double-digit annual growth, and continues to expand its extensive client base.

"SHARC shares our commitment to challenging the status quo by increasing building efficiency, and it's an honor to represent their remarkably innovative technology in the New York City market," said Richard Gerbe, Co-Founder and CEO of HIGHMARK. "The amount of energy that's wasted to heat domestic water in buildings is astronomical. Fossil fuels are burned to heat the water, the energy is then flushed down the drain with the wastewater and new energy is required to heat more water, thus burning more fossil fuels. It's a vicious cycle of inefficiency and wasted energy," he said.

"SHARC technology puts an end to this energy waste," Gerbe continued. "Its technology recovers the energy used to heat water and keeps the energy in the building to be reused for additional heating, cooling and conditioning. Essentially, SHARC is the last line of defense for energy recovery by reusing energy from domestic water systems and industrial cleaners. It's a privilege to be the first company in the New York City metro area to represent such an outside-the-box technology."

SHARC Founder and CEO Lynn Mueller commented on the partnership, “We selected HIGHMARK as a like-minded, purpose-driven partner, and believe in their company’s mission to tap into the 87 billion gallons of waste water in North America and Europe that go directly into the sewer each day, which can potentially replace 1.5 billion Mwh of natural gas now used for heating and cooling."

“We are excited about extending our product sales into the New York City metro area with HIGHMARK,” Mr. Mueller continued. “HIGHMARK shares our mission to revolutionize the HVAC industry and understands the enormous potential of SHARC technology. It’s an ideal fit.”

Vancouver-based SHARC is rapidly becoming recognized for its line of energy systems that extract the heat energy from waste water. SHARC recently won Best Innovation at the Scottish Green Energy Awards for the installation of the United Kingdom’s first sewage heat recovery system at Borders College in Scotland, which aims to displace 1.8 GWH (GigaWatt Hours) of natural gas and eliminate more than 230 tonnes of carbon emissions per year.

SHARC’s first US project, announced November 7, 2017 and currently under construction, will provide heat and cooling for the new $60 million District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority (DC Water) headquarters in Washington DC.

About HIGHMARK NY, LLC
HIGHMARK helps engineers, contractors, building owners and building operators who are serious about building efficiency and sustainability by rigorously vetting the best technologies, embracing new innovations and challenging the status quo, with a focus on HVAC, energy services and water management. Since 2013, we’ve partnered with likeminded industry leaders from across the globe in order to bring to market high-quality and advanced products and technologies that will better the built environment for centuries to come.

About SHARC International Systems
SHARC International Systems Inc. is a world leader in thermal heat recovery. SHARC systems recycle thermal energy from wastewater, generating one of the most energy efficient and economical systems for heating, cooling & hot water preheating for commercial, residential and industrial buildings. SHARC is publicly traded in Canada (CSE:SHRC), the United States (INTWF) and Germany (IWIA.F).

Further information about the Company is available on our website at www.sharcenergy.com or under our profile on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.

The Company also announces the issuance of 250,000 stock options at $0.46 to directors, management, and consultants of the Company for a term of twelve (12) months.

ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD

“Lynn Mueller”
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

For further information, please contact:

Ray Crowley
Telephone: 604 782 0773
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Neither the Canadian Securities Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in policies of the Canadian Securities Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.

Forward-Looking Statements

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