MJBizMag August 2022 - 54

INDUSTRY PLAYERS
Before joining Blinc, Sahani
spent a year at Calyx Containers,
filling the role of senior director
of operations and supply-chain.
Sahani also held high-level
supply-chain posts with Vaporous
Technologies in Los Angeles, where
he was chief operating officer;
Greenlane Holdings in Torrence,
California, where he was vice
president of global sourcing; and
LGS Consultants in the Los Angeles
area, where he was a supply chain
and product-development adviser.
Sahani's pre-cannabis life
included 13 years at Van Nuys,
California-based machinery
company Rajysan, where he
was vice president of product
development, sourcing and
engineering.
Sustainability Group
Adds Marketing Specialist
Resource Innovation Institute
(RII), a nonprofit organization
that supports and advocates for
sustainable agriculture, hired
veteran communications expert
Elyse Greenberg as its new
marketing and membership director.
Greenberg has a long track record
of providing communications
expertise to the agriculture industry.
She spent five years at Fluence,
a leading manufacturer of LED
lighting solutions for commercial
food and cannabis production,
eventually serving as director of
marketing communications.
Previously, Greenberg worked
for nearly five years as an
environmental specialist for
Hicks and Co., an environmental
and archeological consultancy in
Austin, Texas. There, she developed
expertise in environmental
assessment, preparing compliance
documentation and evaluating
the impact of projects, including
the National Environmental
Protection Act.
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Cannabis Real Estate
Company Lands New CEO
NewLake Capital Partners, a
Connecticut-based provider
of real estate capital to statelicensed
cannabis operators,
announced that President
and Chief Investment Officer
Anthony Coniglio was promoted
to CEO effective July 15.
David Weinstein, NewLake's
CEO since August 2020, will
continue as a member of the
company's board of directors and
investment committee. He led
NewLake through a March 2021
merger and IPO in August 2021.
Cynthia
Cabrera
emerging industries such as hemp
and medical marijuana.
Before launching the firm, she
was president and executive
director of the Smoke-Free
Alternatives Trade Association, a
group dedicated to distributors,
manufacturers, retailers and
wholesalers of vapor nicotine
products.
Brand Pioneer Exits Industry
C.J. Chapman, executive vice
president, general counsel and
corporate secretary at Denverbased
BellRock Brands, a multistate
house of brands, has left the
company to pursue opportunities
outside of cannabis.
BellRock includes cannabis
brands Mary's Medicinals and
Dixie.
Eduardo Provencio, BellRock's
Texas CBD Company
Hires Strategy Officer
Hometown Hero CBD, a producer of
hemp-derived THC and cannabidiolbased
products, appointed Cynthia
Cabrera as chief strategy officer.
The Austin-based business
manufactures and distributes
hemp-derived delta-8 THC, delta-9
THC, CBDA and CBGA products.
Cabrera brings more than a
decade of experience in the hemp
and marijuana sectors to the newly
created position, along with a
proven track record of operational
expertise, coalition building and
industry advancement.
Before Hometown Hero,
Cabrera established the Cating
Group, a consulting and businessmanagement
firm focused on
senior vice president of legal
and business development, has
assumed the role of general
counsel. Provencio was previously
Mary's Medicinals' general counsel
before Dixie Brands merged with
BR Brands. He has more than six
years of experience in the cannabis
industry.
Former Governor Joins
Scotts Miracle-Gro Board
The Scotts Miracle-Gro Co., one of
the world's biggest lawn and garden
care companies, appointed former
Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval to its
board of directors.
Sandoval served two terms as
the 29th governor of Nevada,
holding office from 2011 to 2019.
He is currently president of the
University of Nevada, Reno, a
position he has held since 2020.
Before serving as governor,
Sandoval was a judge for the
U.S. District Court for the District
of Nevada, attorney general of
Nevada and served in the Nevada
Assembly.
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