MJBizMag May-June 2022 - 62

INDUSTRY PLAYERS
previously held leadership roles at
alcohol titan Constellation Brands
and will focus on four areas of the
U.S. cannabis market: commercial
sales, marketing, operations and
strategic alliances.
operations to technology-enabled
subscription businesses. Minson
also spent five years at WeWork,
where he was president and chief
operating officer before spending
eight months as CEO. Before
WeWork, he spent two years as chief
financial officer at Time Warner
Cable and nearly four years at AOL,
where his titles included vice chair,
chief financial officer and chief
operating officer.
In this new role, Minson will
be responsible for managing
operations, sales, marketing,
customer service and corporate
functions to support the company's
scaling technology services.
Lynn Ricci
Arizona MSO Hires IR
and Communications Vet
Lynn Ricci, an investor relations and
corporate communications veteran,
joined Phoenix-based multistate
operator Tilt Holdings as vice
president of investor relations and
corporate communications. Before
Tilt, Ricci was head of investor
relations and communications at
Trulieve Cannabis Corp., where she
led environmental and diversity
initiatives.
Before breaking into cannabis
with Trulieve in 2019, Ricci
managed investor relations and
communications at Momenta
Pharmaceuticals, SoundBite
Communications and Authorize.net.
WeWork CEO Joins LeafLink
LeafLink, an online wholesale
cannabis platform, announced Artie
Minson is joining the company
as president and chief operating
officer. Minson also will join
LeafLink's board of directors.
Before joining New York-based
LeafLink, Minson founded 715 Capital
Partners, which provides early stage
capital and advice on strategy and
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Coda Signature Gets New CFO
Denver-based Coda Signature,
a producer of cannabis-infused
edibles and topicals, appointed
Jessica Urbaniak as its new chief
financial officer. Before joining
Coda, Urbaniak was a senior finance
partner at Twilio, a communications
software company in San Francisco.
Urbaniak also spent nearly eight
years at General Electric as a member
of the corporate audit staff
and ultimately as senior operations
finance manager. At GE, Urbaniak
oversaw the financial management
of product supply chains exceeding
$100 million annually.
New CEO for Cannabis
Capital Firm
RIV Capital announced that its board
of directors chose Mark Sims as
president and CEO of the Torontobased
company. Sims will lead the
company's entry into the U.S. market
and expansion into licensed adultuse
operations in New York state.
Sims is a current director of RIV
Capital, a role he will retain, and
most recently was senior vice
president of strategy and M&A
for The Scotts Miracle-Gro Co.,
where he previously served as
chief information officer and head
of business transformation. He
replaces Narbé Alexandrian, who
departs RIV Capital to pursue other
opportunities.
RIV Capital has a strategic
relationship with The Hawthorne
Collective, a wholly owned
subsidiary of Scotts, pursuant to
which RIV Capital is Hawthorne's
preferred vehicle for investments
not under the purview of other
Scotts subsidiaries.
Compliance Software Firm
Woos Exec Out of Retirement
Fyllo, a compliance software
company for highly regulated
industries including cannabis,
announced that Steve Katelman is
coming out of retirement to join the
company as its chief partnership
officer. Katelman spent nearly
three decades at Omnicom Group,
including 14 years at Omnicom
Media Group, where he retired as
executive vice president of global
digital strategic partnerships.
Michigan MSO
Hires Grow Exec
C3 Industries, a multistate,
vertically integrated cannabis
company with headquarters in
Ann Arbor, Michigan, appointed
Parks McMillan as vice president
of cultivation. Before joining
C3, McMillan was the director of
cultivation at Denver-based
Seed & Smith, where he spent
six years.
Other past roles include general
manager of cultivation at The
Green Solution, where he worked
with C3's current chief horticulture
officer, Joel Ruggiero.
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