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IndustryPlayers | New Hires & Promotions
JLL. She will guide Nabis in expanding
the infrastructure of its distribution
centers across California.
Suber currently serves as a board
member of Yield Street and Qwil,
an advisory board member to three
special purpose acquisition companies
as well as numerous firms in lending,
real estate, banking and payments
sectors.
Giadha
DeCarcer
Data Pioneer Changes Roles
New Frontier Data, a Washington DCbased
data and business intelligence
company, announced that its
founder and outgoing CEO, Giadha
A. DeCarcer, will become executive
chair. She will continue to lead the
company's strategic direction and
planning, M&A activities and global
expansion efforts.
DeCarcer appointed Gary Allen,
previous chief operating officer at New
Frontier Data, to replace her as CEO.
Allen will lead the company's data and
tech-enabled product strategy.
Nabis Nabs Three Advisers
Nabis, one of California's largest
licensed cannabis distributors,
announced the appointment of
three new advisers: Anthony Chen,
Elizabeth Cooper and Ron Suber.
Chen was the first full-time employee
at Flexport, a global technology
logistics giant, joining the company
while it was still in Y Combinator's
accelerator program in January 2014.
Chen's focuses will include scaling the
business.
Cooper is vice chair of Jones Lang
LaSalle, a global real estate brokerage
firm with nearly $20 billion in annual
revenues. She has more than 30 years
of real estate experience, including two
decades as a top sales producer at
Terra Tech Bolsters Board
Irvine, California-based Terra Tech
appointed Tiffany Davis to its board of
directors. Davis currently leads Arizona
cannabis company Generation Alpha,
where she has been CEO since 2019
and chief financial officer since 2018.
Before joining the cannabis industry in
2016, Davis worked in the technology
and private equity industries.
Tarik
Brooks
president at RLJ Cos., a portfolio
of businesses owned by investor
Robert L. Johnson, where Brooks led
the development of gaming/nightlife
ventures in the Caribbean and the
completion of RLJ Kendeja, a resort
hotel in Liberia.
Cresco also announce that Dominic
Sergi, an original founder of the
company, retired from the board of
directors as part of the planned boardrefreshment
process.
Eitan Popper
Diddy's Financial Manager
Joins Cresco Board
Cresco Labs appointed Tarik Brooks,
president of Combs Enterprises, to its
board of directors. At Combs, Brooks
oversees all business operations and
investments owned by Sean " Diddy "
Combs, including ventures in Ciroc
Vodka, DeLeon Tequila, Revolt TV,
Bad Boy Records, AquaHydrate and
Capital Preparatory Schools.
Brooks previously was the
chief operating officer of account
management and trading at hedge
fund Bridgewater Associates. He
also served as executive vice
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Cannabinoid Firm Welcomes
MedReleaf Investor
Creo, an ingredients company in San
Diego with a proprietary platform for
producing natural rare cannabinoids
without the cannabis plant,
announced the addition of Eitan
Popper, co-founder and president
of MedReleaf Corp., as an investor
and strategic adviser. MedReleaf
was acquired for $2.5 billion in
2018, making it one of the cannabis
industry's largest acquisitions.
Popper is also chair of the
advisory board of BioHarvest
Sciences, a fast-growing, publicly
traded biotech company in
Vancouver, British Columbia, and an
active private investor through River
Growth Capital Corp.
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Omar Sacirbey at omar.sacirbey@
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