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Pratap Mukharji, Board of Directors:
Mr. Mukharji is a retired consultant working over 30 years in management
consulting, the majority with Bain & Company leading its Supply Chain and
Service Operations practices. With a concentration in Industrials and Retail,
Mukharji has led strategy; M&A; transformation and turnaround; operations
improvement; due diligence, omnichannel; and e-commerce efforts across
multiple industries. Prior to Bain, he was at Kearney and Booz-Allen &
Hamilton.
Jeff Garwood, Board of Directors:
Jeff Garwood founded and is managing member of Liberation Capital, a
private equity fund focused on providing modular, repeatable waste to
value project finance. He is also the co-owner of Zysense, an entity
providing high precision measurement instruments for research. Jeff
previously held senior leadership positions with General Electric, Garrett
Aviation, and McKinsey and Company.
Salim Wahdan, Board of Directors:
Salim Wahdan has close to two decades of entrepreneurial experience
owning and operating retail businesses. Most recently, he was a partner
and operator of Star Buds in Adams, Louisville, and Westminster, several of
the Star Buds' branded dispensaries the Company purchased between
December 2020 and March 2021. Mr. Wahdan was instrumental in the early
growth of the Star Buds franchise. Previous to his time in the cannabis
industry, he owned and operated various retail concepts in Colorado.
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Brian Ruden, Board of Directors:
Since 2010, Brian Ruden has owned and operated cannabis businesses
under the Star Buds brand. Under his leadership, Star Buds has become
one of the most recognized and successful retail cannabis operations in
North America. In 2014, Brian founded Star Buds Consulting which
provides strategic advice to start-up cannabis operations.
Jeff Cozad, Board of Directors:
Jeff Cozad is the co-founder of CRW Cann Holdings, LLC - a special
purpose vehicle created to support Schwazze's vision of becoming the
dominant, vertically integrated player in the Colorado cannabis market. He
is also the Managing Partner of his family office, Cozad Investments, LP,
which has completed more than 20 investments across a disparate set of
industries over the past 13 years. Mr. Cozad holds an MBA from The
University of Chicago Booth School of Business and received a BA in
Economics and Management from DePauw University, where he serves on
the Board of Trustees and is Chairman of the University Endowment Fund
Investment Committee.
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