| 28 OTCQX:SHWZ | NEO:SHWZ BOARD OF DIRECTORS Jeff Garwood Jeff Garwood founded and is the 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. Pratap Mukharji Pratap Mukharji is a retired consultant with over 30 years of experience 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. Paul J. Montalbano, MD Paul J. Montalbano, MD, is a private practicing neurosurgeon in Boise, Idaho. His background includes over 30 years in healthcare, developing two highly successful multidisciplinary programs in the nonprofit and for - profit sector. While serving on the governing and financial boards of the for - profit hospital, its revenues have increased from $8 to $64 million dollars. He has led the most profitable and highest volume neurosurgical program at Neuroscience Associates for the last 22 years. He received his Bachelor’s Degree in Biology from Loyola University of Chicago, Medical Degree from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and completed his neurosurgical training in complex spinal reconstruction and brain surgery at the University of South Florida. Marc Rubin With 25 years of experience investing in and helping to grow companies, Marc Rubin is the Managing Partner of Revity Capital Partners, LLC, a private equity firm focused on lower - to middle - market partnership - oriented transactions. Prior to launching Revity Capital Partners, he was a Partner in several investment partnerships that took a private equity - like approach to investing in public companies. Mr. Rubin also previously spent time as a senior deal professional at Parthenon Capital, a strategy consultant at Parthenon Group, and an Economist at a business unit of Standard and Poor’s. He holds an MBA from Stanford Business School and received a BA in Economics from Colby College where he graduated with honors and distinction. Jeff Cozad 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 the Chairman of the University Endowment Fund Investment Committee. Jonathan Berger Jonathan Berger is the retired CEO of Great Lakes Dredge & Dock, Inc. (Nasdaq: GLDD). In addition to having been a director of GLDD he was also a director of Boise Paper, Inc. a New York Stock Exchange listed company where he previously served as both chair of the audit and compensation committees. Berger is currently a director of Alloy - a privately held specialty environmental contractor and Partner with Genesis Business Humanity, a boutique advisory firm helping bring Israeli tech companies to the US. He is a former partner in KPMG, the international accounting and consulting firm where he ran their corporate finance practice unit on a national level. Previously, Berger held a CPA license and securities licenses 7, 24, 63. He received a BS in Human Development from Cornell University and an MBA from Emory University. Salim Wahdan 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. |