Jeffrey Grava Email & Phone Number

I advise business owners on optimizing financial strategy, valuations, and M&A. I help on anything international, having worked and traveled in over 40 countries, and speak fluent French.I am industry-agnostic, and currently have Bay area clients in the areas of eCommerce, Health & Wellness, Entertainment, Specialty Food, Technology, and Cannabis. I have advised on a worldwide licensing agreement with a luxury brand, SBA loans, phantom shares, Vendor Financing, bank lines, cost and access to raising equity capital vs debt. I spent a year as SVP Corporate Finance for a Cannabis start-up in CO, and worked on a $20m private placement. It was never launched due to audit problems, but provided me fascinating insight into how the SEC and financial institutions view Cannabis.I look for the win-win, and only formulate deals based on honesty, transparency, and willing buyer and seller. I know how to pitch, but I am also a securities professional and conscious of the legal risks to business owners of over-zealous representations.I usually bill monthly, and quote work by the project, based on an hourly rate and incentives. I do not accept success-fee-only work.While an investment banker I was responsible for structuring and signing off on over 500 transactions, including a $1 billion financing for Euro Disney; an IPO for a subsidiary of the Elders group in Australia listed on three stock exchanges (Hong Kong, London and Melbourne); Exchangeable Preference Shares for Jardine Matheson in Hong Kong; an issue of Restructured Perpetual Floating Rate Notes for Roquette Frères in France; and the largest (at that time) international secondary offering of shares ever, for Philips N.V. of the Netherlands. I started my career in municipal bonds and worked on transactions of over $4bn, including: public power stations in Louisiana and Georgia, mortgages in Montana, Wyoming and Florida, hospitals in Nevada and California, highways in Montana, airports in Atlanta and Dayton.

San Rafael, California, Us

In December 2015, I founded Marin Medicinal Cannabis (MMC). As the name implies, I wanted to create a medical cannabis (delivery) service based in Marin County, CA. In our two 2 years, we have signed up more than 1,000 Members of MMC, and are proud of the work we are doing to help our patients complement or replace pharmaceutical treatments with this homeopathic medicine. We have many Members seeking relief from chronic pain, insomnia, arthritis, anxiety, depression, and other common conditions. In some cases, they are seeking temporary relief, for example after surgery or injury. A certain number of our patients are using this natural medicine to replace (or reduce) the use of opioid-based pharmaceuticals. Many of our patients buy only products that are non-psychoactive, sticking to CBD-rich products. Some older patients consider that CBD makes them feel younger.We also have patients in treatment for much more serious conditions. Examples are certain tumors and cancers, Multiple Sclerosis, Epilepsy, Diabetes, Fibromyalgia, as well as a number of rare conditions. In all cases, CBD offers patients the strongest anti-inflammatory we have every discovered, a substance that is soothing and calming, NOT pyschoactive, and seems to be a potent antioxidant, while having a significant impact on healing, correcting immunodeficiencies, reducing pain, removing allergies, and similar. Our CBD is from green-grower certified producers in California. Beware of imported products, often from industrial hemp, and industrially processed.Unfortunately, we were unable to get licensed when the laws changed, and ceased business in early 2018.

My role was to provide corporate finance expertise to help Green Jane raise capital and fund projects.

• Formulated and executed recapitalization and strategic restructuring• Formulated, negotiated and managed restructuring and repayment of $2 million of debts over 18 months• Achieved profitability within six months of restructuring• Increased sales from $500K to $5M in 4 years• Managed re-engineering of human resources from 65 technicians to 85 technicians and engineers plus national sub-contractor outsourcing• Focus shifted from corporate and SOHO offering to emerging ISPs and Telecom Network Providers• Change management from PBX and LAN integrator to 24/7 WAN sales, integration and maintenance• Obtained market leadership in services to deregulating French telecom market• Introduced wireless backbone and WIMAX technologies to northern Africa and Middle Eastern markets• Speaker at WIMAX World 2005 (Boston) on the evolution of wireless standardsFormulated and managed the creation of ODYVISION, an in-house, web-based MySQL application for the integration and planning of technical deployments (network access) on 3-days notice, including automatic integration of information from suppliers and clients, and automatic notification to internal and external technical resources, inventory, reporting, tracking, billing, and accountingServices includes national 24/7 Point of Presence (PoP) and trading console maintenance, and the installation and maintenance of routers, switches, hubs and other networking equipment for business and campus clients of the Network Providers, as detailed below:• Sales, integration and maintenance of CISCO, Siemens, Nortel, NET, BT Syntegra, Dragonwave, Redline, Efficient Networks, 2N, and Partner Voxtream• Clients included BritishTelecom, CEGETEL, 9Telecom, LDCom, Bouygues Telecom, Telecom Italia, Worldcom, Level3, Completel, Colt, AOL, SFR Vodafone, Bayonnat, LightSpeed, and EEPAD• Services in voice, data, mobile, and wireless networks

New York, Ny, Us

• Quadrupled revenues in three years by capturing M&A, Capital Markets, and Corporate Finance business• Global coverage of CAC40 French multinationals, including EuroDisney, Air Liquide, Saint Gobain, Usinor-Sacilor, Pechiney, Roquette Frères, and Bongrain• Represented Paris Office as team member for London-based McKinsey & Co. strategic review of European operations• Managed creation of Venture Capital business in southern Europe and initial $20 million of investments

Zurich, Ch

Prior to 1989• Manager (trainer/player/coach) of 35 finance professionals responsible for the documentation and launch of capital markets, IPO and derivatives transactions worldwide (100 new issues per year)• Personal experience listing securities on 14 stock exchanges in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia• 1st-ever IPO simultaneously listed and offered on the stock exchanges of Hong Kong, Melbourne and London, named “Deal of the Year” by The Financial Times• Two issues of Exchangeable Preference Shares for Jardine Matheson group’s re-listing of Hong Kong companies in Bermuda• Market analysis and opening of CSFB’s Paris office• Evolved from Analyst position in Public Finance Department at The First Boston Corporation in New York