Marijuana Business Magazine November December 2018

him a quick start out of the blocks and serve him well in the long run. “Over my last few jobs, I’ve operated in all sorts of towns and states in North America, and it’s given me a good overview of the landscape around real estate, the retail industry within those states, where you want to be versus where you don’t want to be,” Melillo said. As for his objectives, he said, “The short-term goal is attaining license possibilities in states with a limited number of licenses, states with high barriers to entry.” “Get the right retail locations with the right licenses in the right cities and states as fast as we can.” Acreage Growing Acreage, the multistate cannabis company headquartered in New York, made six additions to its senior staff: Heather Boyd, Ryan Clendenin, William Fenger, Phillip Hague, Tamer Mohamed and Ry Prichard . As a team, they will drive Acreage’s diverse portfolio of cultivation, processing and dispensing operations across the United States. Boyd is Acreage’s new vice president/chief product and innovation officer. Most recently, she served as chain sales director for Diageo Beer and as brand director for Diageo’s flavored malt beverage portfolio. In her new role, she will lead Acreage’s cultivation, extraction and production teams in developing and executing portfolio strategy, production, research and development as well as product development. Clendenin and Fenger co-founded Live Resin, a Kind Bill brand providing process and product development consulting. Clendenin joins as director, manufacturing process and systems, while Fenger joins Acreage as director, product design and innovation. Hague, a veteran grower, recently joined Acreage as director of cultivation. He has designed, built, staffed and maintained more than 1 million square feet of controlled- environment cannabis cultivation facilities across eight states. November/December 2018 • Marijuana Business Magazine • 163