Investor Presentation
Meet Our
Board of Directors.
Luis Merchan
Chairman of the Board (see page 4)
Dr. Annabelle Manalo-Morgan
Director (see page 4)
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.
Brandon Konigsberg
Director
Brandon Konigsberg is a seasoned leader in
finance and will focus on Flora's key growth
drivers to advance the Company's global
expansion. Konigsberg is a former executive
of JP Morgan Chase (JPMC), and has held
various leadership roles, serving as CFO and
COO for various growing and turnaround
business units. After 20 years at JPMC,
Konigsberg retired to focus full-time on
consulting, advising and entrepreneurial
endeavors. He is currently the President and
CFO of Fynn, an education financing
company he joined as a consultant in 2020.
Konigsberg also holds various board director,
chair and audit committee memberships
including Chicago Atlantic Real Estate
Finance, Inc., a specialty mortgage REIT
focused on lending to cannabis companies
since its IPO in 2021.
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.
FLORA GROWTH
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