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San Francisco Bay Area

Developing and implementing transparent, accurate, and verifiable systems for quantifying biomass carbon removal and sequestration

Over 10 years of experience in California's cannabis industry with a focus on supply chain, business development, extraction and sales.

Richmond, California, United States

• Oversaw the sourcing process for millions of units of extract products, biomass, and food ingredients, driving business growth from a small startup with a handful of employees to a multimillion-dollar manufacturing.
• Developed and implemented a performance-based purchasing system that mitigated risk, stabilized costs, and empowered the sales team with competitively priced product offerings.
• Implemented cost-accounting systems and ERP integration in collaboration with the Finance, Inventory, and Manufacturing departments to ensure accurate inventory valuation, needs forecasting, and understanding of.

Oakland, California, United States

• More than doubled monthly revenue across the highly competitive Bay Area territory during an exceptionally uncertain time.
• Conducted diligent, highly tailored outreach to bring on over 30 new accounts during a short tenure.
• Worked extensively with the Marketing department to improve in-store demos and staff programming, increasing marketing ROI and product sell-through.

Oakland, California, United States

• Developed B2B bulk extract sales channels, turning excess inventory into over $1m annual revenue.
• Secured new clients for extraction toll processing, copacking, and distribution services, monetizing surplus capital capacity.
• Designed and sourced product inputs for an in-house budget flower brand for Nug dispensaries, resulting in increased retail profitability and expansion.
• Worked cross-functionally with Accounting and Finance teams, ensuring new lines of revenue were correctly recognized and counted towards company success.

Oakland, California, United States

• Drove lab profitability by safely and consistently exceeding necessary production quotas by working collaboratively to identify and implement efficiencies in prep, extraction tech and post-processing.
• Oversaw an over 100% increase in overall lab throughput by identifying and implementing efficiencies to achiever quicker, cheaper production.
• Managed hiring and onboarding processes for new lab personnel.

Berkeley, CA

• Managed a 6-figure monthly purchasing budget across diverse product categories including flower, concentrates/vapes, pre-rolls, edibles and apothecary/wellness
• Introduced data-driven purchasing processes and open-to-buy planning systems that identified and prioritized resources toward best-selling items, minimized stock-outs and maximized inventory liquidity
• Developed and maintained strategic partnerships with a diverse and selective complement of vendors who would go on to shape California’s recreational market, e.g. Gold Drop, Nug, Korova, Big Pete’s Treats, Kiva, Atlas.
• Played a key leadership role on a team that tripled customer traffic and facilitated expansion to a new location in Oakland

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, American/United States Studies/Civilization