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IndustryPlayers | New Hires & Promotions
Carol Vallone
developing and building Neptune's
portfolio of health and wellness
products with a focus on sustainable
and natural plant-based sanitizing
wipes and hand sanitizers.
An organic chemist, Gharakhanian
joins Neptune from The Clorox
Co., where he served as product
development specialist for cleaning
products and brands.
Cresco Refreshes Board
Chicago multistate operator Cresco
appointed Carol Vallone to its board of
directors.
Vallone currently serves as chair
of the board of trustees at McLean
Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts,
the largest psychiatric affiliate of
Harvard Medical School. She also
sits on the board of trustees at MGH
Institute of Health Professions and
on the finance committee at Mass
General Brigham, a 14-hospital
network in Boston. Vallone also serves
on the board of directors of Arosa, the
Bain Capital Double Impact portfolio
company; as an advisory director for
private investment firm Berkshire
Partners; and as an advisory board
member of the health care-focused
venture growth firm Longitude Capital.
In the past, Vallone served as
president and CEO of e-learning
companies including WebCT, where
she grew the company to cover almost
2,000 institutions in 70 countries.
Cresco also announced that Brian
McCormack retired as vice chair of the
board as part of the planned boardrefreshment
process.
Quebec Cannabis Firm Nabs Clorox
Exec for Product Development
Neptune Wellness Solutions, a
marijuana and hemp company in
Quebec, appointed Eric Gharakhanian
as director of product development
for health and wellness innovations.
Gharakhanian will be responsible for
Former Israeli Deputy Prime Minister
Takes Helm at MJ Company
Israeli cannabis company Vonetize,
which is publicly traded on the Tel
Aviv Stock Exchange, appointed Haim
Ramon as board chair.
Ramon served in the Israeli
Legislature between 1983 and 2009.
Over the years, he held positions from
minister of health to minister of justice,
and in 2007 he became deputy prime
minister. In the past decade, Ramon
has served as a board member and
consultant for several public and
private companies, including Keter
Plastic in Israel.
 Legal Eagle
Sativa
Rasmussen,
a cannabis
attorney with
international
law firm Dorsey
& Whitney, was
elected chair of
the Washington
State Bar Association's Cannabis
Law Section. Rasmussen will serve a
two-year term beginning Oct. 1. She
previously served as the chair-elect for
the Cannabis Law Section, which she
founded in 2016.
Israeli AgTech Firm Elects
Board of Directors
Seedo Corp., an agtech company in
Israel, voted three new directors to
its board: Dr. Gil Feiler, chair; David
Grossman, CEO and board member;
and David Freidenberg, board
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member. Previous board member and
CEO Zohar Levy stepped down from
his roles.
Feiler serves as director of the
Bank of Georgia, is a partner at Forest
Investment House and head of the
scientific advisory board of Cannabics,
a Maryland company working on
cannabinoid-based cancer therapies.
Grossman has been a partner at
Hava Cannabis Ba'arava since 2017
and served as a board member at
Gefen Biomed Investments.
Freidenberg's past roles include
vice president of sales and business
development at Trigyn Technologies, an
IT services provider.
HIA Appointment
The Hemp Industries Association
(HIA) appointed Jody McGinness as
its new executive director. After a
monthslong search with nearly 100
qualified candidates, the national
hemp association selected McGinness,
a veteran association executive in the
nonprofit sector.
McGinness, who is based in
Washington DC, last served as the
head of fundraising for the Marijuana
Policy Project. The HIA's executive
director role has been vacant since
the departure of Colleen Lanier at the
end of 2019.
Shake-up at Lord Jones
Robert Rosenheck stepped down as
CEO of Lord Jones, the California CBD
company he co-founded in 2017, less
than a year after it was acquired by the
Cronos Group, Barron's reported.
Cronos appointed Summer Frein to
general manager of its U.S. operations,
which includes Lord Jones. Frein joined
Cronos this year and previously served
as vice president of U.S. brand sales,
including Lord Jones.
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