AMERICAN HEMP REVOLUTION - Key Persons


Amanda Blest - CMO

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, Marketing
Amanda Blest has over a decade of Sales and Marketing experience. She is an expert on Social Media and considered an "influencer" having generated 50,000 followers organically for various products and services. Her experience in Sales has ranged from working with consumers in medicinal cannabis, selling business to business services and generating revenue with double digit growth members. She has extensive experience with organizational Start Ups. Her hobbies include: singing/songwriting and art.

Howard Kramer - CFO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Financial Officer
Mr Kramer has been a Financial Consultant, Investment Banker, Entrepreneur and Marketing Director over the last 35 years. Mr Kramer is a co founder of CDxDiagnostics.com. CDx is a Medical Device Business and Laboratory. Previously, Mr Kramer was the COO and President of CDx Concurrently, Mr Krammer has been CEO of Opus AG, a privately held financial consulting firm which has assisted various companies raising million of dollars of capital and restructuring of their businesses. During this period Mr Kramer founded Advantage Premium Funding helping to underwrite $100's of millions of Life Insurance policies for individuals with companies such as Deutche Bank and Credit Swiss being the eventual owner of these policies. Prior Mr Kramer was an investment banker with ICA, having completing $500,000,000 in Acquisitions and Dispositions over a ten-year period. Mr Kramer was director of Marketing for LFC, a California based company in the Real Estate Auction Business. When joining, LFC had 4 employees and the company had $5,000,000 in sales. Within a year, Mr Kramer hired an trained 10 sales people and the company had 30 employees and $165,000,000 in sales including the auction of Trump Plaza of Palm Beach. Howard is a veteran of th U.S Army including a tour of Korea. He holds a BA in Finance and Marketing from the university of Denver

Jim Fitzpatrick - Chief Strategy Officer

Job Titles:
  • Chief Strategy Officer
Jim is a Solutioner, International Business Executive and Cannabis Industry Subject Matter Expert with 15+ years Customer Package Goods experience. Jim worked for the consumer side of Pharma, Glaxo Smithkline and Johnson & Johnson, selling Tylenol and preparing West Coast Retailers for the billion dollar Prescriptions soon available over the counter. Jim led Catalina Marketing, second only in Big Data at the time to Google, to launch the world's largest shopper database in Japan. Developed the largest chain of environmentally friendly Eco Spa's in Southern California, having to crack the land use code to do so. James spent 6 years as chairman of his City's Planning Commission developing land use and regulatory schemes. As a solutioneer, Jim has crafted cannabis policy, over 3 dozen permits and licenses across all use types and sits on several Cannabis Companies Advisory Boards. Jim went to Noble and Greenough Prep School and graduated from the University of Notre Dame.

Robert Martinez - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Ceo
Robert Martinez is pioneer in Advocacy for Cannabis and Hemp. He opened the first Medical Marijuana Dispensary in Costa Mesa, CA. He was the ownder and founder of Newport Mesa Patients Association, which cultivated 1,000 pounds of high grade flower annually in Monterey County, CA. He hosted a weekly radio program on KOCI (101.5) called the Cannabis Community. Robert has a history as a top sales performer with several bio technology and pharmaceutical companies specializing in oncology for over 20 years with many President's Club Awards and Best Performer's Award. He is also a Army Veteran/Combat Medic.