CSE’s James Black was recently joined by Cameron Chell, CEO of Draganfly Inc. (CSE:DFLY), to reflect on the new realities of operating a business during a quarantine and the opportunities being presented to his company during these challenging times.
In this conversation, Chell reflects on the ominous feelings he had during his trip through the Vancouver airport before the lock-down (1:15), how his company is working with the University of South Australia to deploy an epidemic-tracking system (3:50), and the “new normal” that will emerge as a result of COVID-19 (7:31).
Listen until the end to hear Cameron’s thoughts on how the pandemic will permanently change the way teams work together, the advantages of working from home, and his reflection on the opportunities that came from the last “black swan”.
Cameron Chell, Founder and Chairman at Draganfly Inc., joined Grace Pedota in the podcast studio to share his thoughts on delivering drone systems innovation to the public markets (1:02), the opportunities emerging as a result of US government security concerns around foreign drone systems control (2:23), and the future of unmanned vehicles beyond aerial drones (4:11). Listen until the end to hear how Cameron envisions Draganfly punching above its “weight class.”
The CSE welcomed Draganfly Inc. (CSE:DFLY) to open the market on November 5th, 2019 at the CSE Media Centre.
Draganfly Inc. is an award-winning, industry-leading manufacturer, contract engineering, and product development company within the UAV space, serving the public safety, agriculture, industrial inspections, and mapping and surveying markets. The company is driven by passion, ingenuity, and the need to provide efficient solutions and first-class services to its customers around the world with the goal of saving time, money, and lives. Draganfly is positioning itself as an integrated solutions provider to the UAV industry, and celebrated their recent listing on the CSE.
“Today for us at the Draganfly team to open up DFLY on the Canadian Securities Exchange, it’s humbling, quite frankly. This is an exchange that’s built for entrepreneurs, and we’re a company of entrepreneurs. This company has been around for 20-plus years, we had lots of options and opportunities of where we wanted to list, and this particular exchange, at this time, for this project, it was absolutely the right place to be,” remarked Chairman Cameron Chell.
“There’s a tremendous opportunity in the market for a North American manufacturer and solutions systems provider with a patent portfolio like ours to be able to get market penetration. And there’s about a billion dollar opportunity over the next number of years for us to own, and we think that this is the right move for us in order to capitalize on that opportunity.”
Joining Chell at the Market Open were several members of the Draganfly team, including CFO Paul Sun, COO Pat Imbasciani, and Gowling WLG Partner Denis Silva.
View the podcast for this Market Open featuring Cameron Chell here.
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