Marijuana Business Magazine October 2019

October 2019 | mjbizdaily.com 67 A growing number of physicians and executives from pharmaceutical, life sciences and health care companies and institutions are moving into cannabis, drawn by the opportunity to get in on the ground floor of emerging businesses in a new industry. The table below is a sampling of executives from these industries who have joined the cannabis space in the past couple of years. NAME CANNABIS COMPANY POSITION YEAR JOINED PREVIOUS INDUSTRY Alfred Miranda Acreage Holdings Chief Information Officer 2019 Nutraceuticals Rhonda Kratz Acreage Holdings General Manager-Florida 2019 Optometry Peter Cummins CB2 Insights Board Member 2019 Health Wellness Dr. Anthony Petraglia GeoCann Chief Medical Officer 2019 Medical Hospital Dr. Len Walt CannTrust Chief Medical Officer 2019 Pharmaceuticals Dr. Edward Britten FSD Pharma President of Biosciences Division 2019 Biotechnology Michael Luther Teewinot CEO 2019 Pharmaceuticals Steve Orndorff Teewinot COO 2019 Biomedical Corey Burchman Acreage Holdings Chief Medical Officer 2019 Medicine Douglas MacKay Neptune Tehnologies and Bioresources SVP Scientific and Regulatory Affairs 2019 Nutraceuticals George Smitherman Biome Grow SVP Corporate Affairs 2019 Health Regulatory Stephen Lermer Charlotte's Web Chief Operating Officer 2019 Pharmaceuticals Rav Kumar The Green Organic Dutchman Chief Science Officer 2019 Pharmaceuticals Frank Holler Harvest One Cannabis Chairman of the Board 2018 Pharmaceuticals Jane Hailey Global Health Clinics Director for Pediatric MMJ Patients 2018 Medicine Peter Pitts CannabisBPO Advisory Board Member 2018 Health Care Jacquie Cohen Roth Maryland Wholesale Medical Cannabis Trade Association Executive Director 2018 Health Care Helene Fortin Neptune Tehnologies and Bioresources Board Member 2018 Finance Morten Lars Brandt Maricann Group General Manager - Europe 2018 Pharmaceuticals Julie Eastland Pascal Biosciences Board Member 2018 Pharmaceuticals Jamil Myrie Acreage Holdings Head of Operations 2018 Optometry Michael Ash FSD Pharma Chief Commercial Officer 2018 Pharmaceuticals Anna Stewart The Green Organic Dutchman General Counsel 2018 Pharmaceuticals David Schubert Nemus Bioscience Consultant 2018 Neurobiology Eric Hsu InMed Pharmaceuticals VP of Preclinical R&D 2018 Biopharmaceutical Jennifer Timothee Oliveras Liberty Health Sciences Medical Director 2018 Medicine Dr. John Abroon Digipath Advisory Board Member 2017 Medicine Chris Diorio PharmaCann R&D Director 2017 Pharmaceuticals Alfredo Axtmayer Digitpath Advisory Board Member 2017 Medicine