MJBizMag September 2022 - 52

INDUSTRY PLAYERS New Hires & Promotions by Omar Sacirbey
COO Journeyman Goes to Nevada Cultivator
Flower One Holdings, a cannabis producer in Nevada, appointed
Tim Shoemake as its chief operating officer. Shoemake also
served as chief operating officer at 3 Bros. Cos., a vertically
integrated marijuana company in Santa Cruz, California; Verde
Natural/Dab Logic, a vertically integrated multistate operator
based in Denver; Lyfted Farms, a cultivator and cannabis product
maker in Modesto, California; and Crop BioSciences, an agricultural
company in Fresno, California.
Before entering the cannabis industry, Shoemake spent more than
seven years at Las Vegas-based International Citrus Supply, a fruit
and beverage distributor where he was president and board member;
Citrusource, an Irvine, California-based agricultural business that
he founded; and NBT Group, a Madera, California-based farm and
agricultural processing business where he was president and COO.
Tim Shoemake
Nevada Grow Appoints
Cultivation Director
Nevada cannabis company
Deep Roots Harvest promoted
horticulture expert Chris
O'Ferrell to the role of director
of cultivation. In his new
post, O'Ferrell will oversee all
cultivation work and compliance
requirements.
O'Ferrell got his start with cultiFife
Symington IV
Executive Changes
at Copperstate Farms
Copperstate Farms, a vertically
integrated cannabis operator in
Arizona, appointed Fife Symington
IV as chief executive officer. He
co-founded Copperstate and was
previously managing director.
In addition, Scott Barker,
co-founder and managing director,
has been appointed executive chair.
The company also appointed
Kevin Burdette as interim
CEO. Burdette will continue to serve
on Copperstate Farm's board of
directors. Burdette was previously
vice president at Phoenix-based
Swift Aviation Group, a commercial
airline.
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vation in Colorado, where he performed
wide-ranging horticultural
duties at Native Roots Cannabis
Co. and EnviroGrow. He also served
as a director of cultivation for
Curaleaf in Ohio and has developed
and instructed courses at
the Cleveland School of Cannabis.
O'Ferrell is also a veteran of the
U.S. Marine Corps, where he completed
two overseas deployments.
Chief Finance Officer
Resigns From TGOD
Nichola Thompson resigned as chief
financial officer of The Green Organic
Dutchman Holdings, a licensed
cannabis producer in Ontario,
Canada, effective Aug. 4. Thompson
plans to pursue opportunities
outside the cannabis industry, the
company said.
CEO Sean Bovingdon was
appointed interim CFO. Bovingdon
was The Green Organic Dutchman's
CFO before being appointed CEO
in March 2021. The company has
engaged an executive recruitment
firm to search for a permanent CFO.
Amber
Littlejohn
Equity Advocate Steps Down
from Leadership Post
Amber Littlejohn, a national
advocate for equity in the
marijuana industry, has stepped
down as executive director of
the Minority Cannabis Business
Association (MCBA) to pursue new
opportunities.
Littlejohn, an attorney and policy
advocate, started as MCBA's policy
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