Kurt Forstmann Email & Phone Number

Calgary, AB, CA

Player/coach managing an international sales team focused on cannabis consumables, contract manufacturing and bulk ingredients. Our range includes cannabis-based wellness, and recreational supplements, like gummies, extracts, flower, pre-rolls, edibles & topicals. Serving multiple wholesale channels, including natural grocery, dispensary, healthcare and.

Helping growth stage companies create / implement capital markets campaigns, establish SOPs for marketing, discovery, diligence and reporting. Utilize advanced data analytics to evaluate financial and operational risk.- Currently, I'm managing a sell-side M&A division I built for an established real estate firm. I implemented SOPs for discovery, diligence.

Denver, CO, US

Lead corporate development program with mandate to expand/enhance a national cannabis brand platform, including investments, partnering and licensing. Coalesce cross-department stakeholders to set corporate development goals and metrics. Specific duties were: identifying, feasing, structuring and contracts with high-value 3rd parties to achieve our goals..

Denver, CO, US

Category responsibility for wellness division focused on cbd / lo-thc ingestibles and topicals. Organized and managed cross-functional departments to commercialize, manufacture and sell wellness brand into multiple regulated state marijuana markets, and national (and intl) markets for hemp/cbd. Managed multi-channel distribution program including DTC.

Denver, CO, US

Established country's first mainstream hemp-wellness product line (www.dixiebotanicals.com), and category influencer. Initially stood up our B2B sales program within brick & mortar retailers, included creation and delivery of "CBD 101" education across a diverse early adopted crowd of budtenders, healthcare practitioners and independent retailers. As.

Denver, CO, US

Bootstrapped Colorado's Western Slope sales territory for sale of THC-infused beverages ("Dixie Elixirs") into Colorado's new medical marijuana industry. Sales road warrior and delivery of 50mg-100mg beverages from lemonade, grape, iced tea and orange flavors. Layed groundwork for Dixie's Colorado distribution footprint, by onboarding 50+ medical.

Buy side project financing and acquisition at PE firm investing in renewables. I worked with a small partner team to syndicate +$200M in equity from PE firms/ family offices, and bank debt to build waste-to-energy projects in TX & NC. Deeply involved in project identification, diligence, structuring and acquisition.

Buy side financial manager for multiple LLCs building regional-scale mixed use real estate projects in CO and MD, raising over $200M with CFO. Responsible for project due diligence, offering memorandum, proforma modelling and investor relations. Funding provided via family offices, pension funds and banks. Also, involved with site selection process.

• Consulting Portfolio Manager for Circuit City Stores, Mattress Discounters and Heilig Myers.
• Portfolio Management: Optimized portfolio returns for 50 Circuit City stores, 20 Heilig Myers stores, and 30 Mattress Discounters stores via lease re-structuring, disposition & refinancing.
• Strategy & Planning: Developed pre-construction budgeting and business plans for joint venture and external partners; Designed and implemented structure of capital offering.

• Lead Asset Manager for 3 property portfolio: 300,000 SF neighborhood retail center, 400-acre master planned golf course community, and 3M square feet of mixed use PUD.
• Financial Management: Developed & managed portfolio operating and tenant association budgets; Primary lender interface; Billing & collection of rent and NNN from retail and office tenants.
• Property Management: Managed operations and maintenance program for retail, residential and office assets; managed tenant association as owner’s rep.
• Leasing: Owners rep for onsite leasing of retail and office space; Key contributor in asset sale to institutional buyer.