Marijuana Business Magazine January 2019

January 2019 | mjbizdaily.com 115 and founder of Artemis Holdings Group, a private investment firm in Washington DC, where her portfolio focuses on emerging businesses in the cannabis industry. She has more than 30 years of M&A experience and has raised more than $100 million to build, acquire and sell a dozen companies in the manufacturing, professional services and real estate industries. Orlowitz also served as an official U.S. envoy to Latvia, Greece and Portugal. • Sal Pace is a county com- missioner in Pueblo County, Colorado, and a former leader of the Colorado House of Repre- sentatives. In addition to joining the board, he will serve as a senior policy adviser for MPP. As a state lawmaker, Pace played a leading role in developing Colorado’s medical marijuana model and founded Leaders For Reform, a national cannabis advocacy group. As a county commissioner, Pace led efforts to create the Institute of Cannabis Research at Colorado State University-Pueblo and to estab- lish the first college scholarship program funded by cannabis tax revenue. • Les Szabo is director of con- structive capital at Dr. Bronner’s, over- seeing business development activities for the Vista, California-based company, including impact investing, philanthropy and commercial support of supply chain projects around the world. Szabo is also a co-founder of Living Harvest, Dunderdon and Infinity Sport, and he currently sits on the boards of Serendi Coco Samoa, Regenerative Organic Feed Co. and LifeDose.   Cannabis Contact Center Business Gets Noteworthy Adviser CannabisBPO, a dedicated contact center solution for the marijuana industry, tapped Peter Pitts as its newest advisory board member. Pitts currently serves as president of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest. He previously worked as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s associate commissioner for external relations and, in 2010, was chosen one of the 300 “most powerful people in American health care” by Modern Healthcare magazine. MJ Investment Analysis Firm Hires Researcher GreenWave Advisors, a New York City marijuana investment analysis firm, hired Jonathan Gordon , an experienced institutional investor analyst, to provide investment fund due diligence and research. Gordon is also a managing principal at Excelsis Research, an outsourced research and due diligence firm for institutional investors. He began his career at Graystone Consulting, an institutional consulting subsidiary of Morgan Stanley, and later joined CapTrust Advisors, an independent institutional consulting firm where he led alternative investment research.   New Leader For Maryland MMJ Wholesalers Group The Maryland Wholesale Medical Cannabis Trade Association hired Jacquie Cohen Roth as executive director. Cohen Roth is founder/CEO of Maryland-based Athena Communi- cations and CannabizMD. Previously she worked as a media and marketing consultant to health-care systems in Maryland. Corporate Secretary Changes at LGC Capital LGC Capital, an investment firm specializing in international cannabis investments, announced that Rafi Hazan resigned as the firm’s corpo- rate secretary and will be replaced by Michael Kozub , a lawyer at the firm of Dunton Rainville. Hazan will continue at LGC as a director. Hired or promoted someone for a senior-level position? Send a news release or general information to omars@mjbizdaily.com. Sal Pace Courtesy Photo Les Szabo Courtesy Photo Peter Pitts Courtesy Photo Jacquie Cohen Roth Courtesy Photo