Marijuana Business Magazine April 2020

April 2020 | mjbizdaily.com 103 marketing to manage manufacturing operations and oversee all product operations including procurement, merchandizing, packaging and pricing. Oliver started her cannabis career in 2012 with a major medical cannabis dispensary, and in 2017, she founded J.J. Oliver Consulting, offering project management and operations consulting for the cannabis industry. Her specialties include cannabis retail operations, compliance management, process improvement, product development, packaging design and retail operations planning. Florida CBD Business Hires FDA Chemist Veritas Farms, a vertically integrated agribusiness in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, that focuses on the production of full-spectrum hemp oil products with naturally occurring cannabinoids, is pleased to announce that Daniel Connors joined the company as a new executive to assist in research and development of new products. Connors previously worked as an analytical chemist for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Connors has built and operated laboratories, managed teams of specialized scientists, generated multiple new patents and produced and maintained health, safety and environmental records and policies for large corporations.  North Carolina CBD Company Boosts Product Development Open Book Extracts, a Roxboro, North Carolina-based cultivator, processor and manufacturer of CBD products, appointed Phoebe Leppla as director of product development. Most recently, Leppla led skin-care research and development and a team of formulation chemists, packaging scientists and process engineers for Burt’s Bees. She also spent nearly a decade in engineering, formulation and project-management posts at The Clorox Co., specializing in the cleaning, wellness, beauty and personal-care categories. Utah’s Top MJ Regulator Departs Utah’s top cannabis regulator, Andrew Rigby , announced his resignation. Rigby, who became director of the state’s medical marijuana and industrial hemp program in early 2019, told news outlets he had planned to resign once the state’s cannabis program was operational.  Napa Infused Beverage Firm Taps Ex-Constellation Exec House of Saka, a Napa Valley, California-based producer of alcohol- free, cannabis-infused beverages made from vineyards in Napa Valley, hired wine and spirits veteran Sue Bachorski as chief operating and financial officer. Bachorski will oversee operations, logistics and finance for the company. Before Saka, Bachorski spent nearly three decades as a senior operations and finance executive at Constellation Brands, which is also a major investor in Ontario-based Canopy Growth. She most recently served as Constellation’s senior vice president of operation services- global wine and spirits, which supported 24 production locations in five countries. Bachorski also has served in executive positions at Constellation Wines North America and Pacific Wine Partners, where she led teams through multiple acquisitions, business combinations and organizational re-alignments. MJ Tech Firm Makes CEO Permanent Tilt Holdings, a Massachusetts- based cannabis company with a focus on technology, installed Mark Scatterday as permanent CEO. He had served as the company’s interim CEO since May 2019. Before joining the company as interim CEO, Scatterday was the founder and CEO of Jupiter Research, a vaping technology company acquired by Tilt in January 2019. Tilt also announced that Chief Operating Officer Tim Conder would serve as company president. London CBD Tech Platform Hires Former PharmaCielo Head London-based CBD marketplace Alphagreen appointed Patricio Stocker as chair of the board of directors. He will work directly with co-founder and CEO Alexej Pikovsky to scale the business as well as chairing and managing the board of directors. Stocker was previously chair, president and CEO of PharmaCielo, a large, licensed cannabis producer in Toronto with Colombian operations. In 2019, he moved to Blueberries Medical Corp., another producer of medicinal cannabis products, as CEO before his appointment to chair of Alphagreen. Before joining the cannabis sector, Stocker spent 20 years in the Euro- pean and South American automotive industry, chiefly at Daimler. During his time there, he held various positions, from country president and CEO for DaimlerChrysler Colombia to head of the truck and bus division for Daimler Latin America. Hired or promoted someone for a senior-level position? Send a news release or general information to omars@mjbizdaily.com .