Company Overview
Meet Our
Board of Directors.
Luis Merchan
Chairman & CEO
Bio on Page 7.
Tim Leslie
Director
A Yale law graduate, Leslie has a strong pedigree
of success, working with scaling companies
including his two decades at Amazon, where he
served as Vice President and Associate General
Counsel responsible for building and managing
Amazon's international legal team before changing
roles to oversee the international launch of
Amazon Prime Video.
Following his successful tenure at Amazon,
Leslie made the leap to the burgeoning cannabis
industry where he served as CEO of one of the
world's most authoritative digital cannabis data
sources, Leafly. Since his time there, Leslie has
served on the board of renowned cannabis
companies before his appointment as Chairman of
the Board of Advisors at Flora.
Marc Mastronardi
Director
Marc Mastronardi is a seasoned executive and
current Chief of Stores of Macy's.
Prior to his current role, Mastronardi was Macy's
Senior VP of Store Operations and Customer
Experience, where he was responsible for
enterprise-wide store operations, sales, and
customer service. Mastronardi has also led
multiple functions within the organization,
responsible for the creation and expansion of
new business concepts, leased partnerships and
diverse owner-led businesses.
Mastronardi currently serves on the board of
Delivering Good, NYC, the executive committee
of the Fashion Scholarship Fund, and is the
executive sponsor of the Macy's Working Families
Employee Resource Group.
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Juan Carlos Gomez
Director
Mr. Gomez is a proven business leader with over
30 years of professional experience working
for multinational public companies. He brings
substantial experience in the Latin American
market, across a variety of business competencies
including business operations, M&A, business
integration and corporate governance.
For the past 20 years, Mr. Gomez served as the
COO, and eventually as CEO of the Winner Group,
CIRSA, owned by the Blackstone Group, where
he was responsible for growing the company to
become one of the largest 100 companies in the
country through meaningful organic and M&A
driven growth initiatives. This included expansion
across 28 cities and more than 2,800 staff.
Mr. Gomez obtained his bachelor's degree in
Organizational Psychology from the University of
Santo Tomas in Colombia.
Dr. Beverley
Richardson Director
Dr. Beverley J. Richardson is a renowned
psychotherapeutic practitioner whose
collaborative efforts and clinical influence are
reflected in some of the most compelling and
effective addiction and behavioural health
programs in North America which include: Sierra
Tucson (Arizona), the Meadows (Arizona) and
Betty Ford Centre (California).
She has a Doctorate Degree in Psychology
and is a B.C. Registered Clinical Counsellor,
Internationally Certified Eating Disorder Specialist,
and EMDR Level II Trauma Therapist.
Dr. Richardson has integrated her extensive
experience in health and wellness with her
entrepreneurial spirit to form her nutraceutical and
bioscience research and development enterprises.
Dr. Annabelle
Manalo-Morgan Director
Dr. Annabelle is a scientist, educator, author,
mother of five and a respected key opinion leader.
She is a cell and developmental biologist from
Vanderbilt University with a background in
neuroscience from Georgetown University. She
earned her Ph.D. in Cell and Development Biology
with a focus in Cardio-Oncology and has since
become a philanthropist and entrepreneur focused
on pharmaceutical innovation and clinical trial
research in medical cannabis.
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