GLASS HOUSE FARMS - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Member of the Leadership Team
- VP Labor
Ben has been working at Houweling Nurseries, the business formerly operating at Glass House Brands' SoCal cultivation location, since serving as a Construction Supervisor on the facility's very first phase of construction in 1996. By 1999, when the facility doubled from 40 to 87 acres under glass, he became Labor Manager, overseeing the entire site and working to improve labor efficiencies. He then applied this cost-saving mentality to the entire operation when he became Operations Manager in 2004. In 2007, the site expanded by another 38 acres, bringing the total acreage under glass to 125, and after the company constructed its Utah facility, Ben became the General Manager of US Operations. He continues to lead a number of efficiency-based projects and has served on the Board of Directors of the Ventura County Agriculture Association.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
12-year veteran of the cannabis industry and Founder of Hoban Law Group,a leading global full-service commercial cannabis law firm and the first of its kind
Co-Founder of Gateway Proven Strategies, a leading global cannabis industry consulting firm
Job Titles:
- Chief Operating Officer
- Leader
- Member of the Leadership Team
Daryl is a seasoned leader with nearly 20 years of experience in operations, finance, accounting, and technology across multiple industry sectors and consumer packaged goods categories. Most recently, he served as the Chief Financial Officer and Board Director at Nissin Foods USA. Prior to that, he co-founded and sold a digital out-of-home advertising company and completed several business transformation projects while with Nestlé USA, Global Nestle Professional, Farmer Brothers, and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group. Kato began his career in Deloitte's audit practice where he earned his CPA license. He holds a BA in Business Economics & minor in Accounting from the University of California at Los Angeles and an MBA from USC Marshall School of Business.
Job Titles:
- Chief Business Development Officer
- Investor
- Member of the Leadership Team
- Expert
Erik is an expert investor and dealmaker with nearly two decades of global capital allocation and transactional experience, over 15 years' experience in M&A, and more than 12 years of nonmarket proprietary deal flow expertise. Most recently, he served as the Vice President of M&A at Harvest Health & Recreation, where he was also responsible for real estate. Since 2010, Erik has been deepening his domain expertise as Founder and Manager at Calaveras Capital, LLC, a value-oriented, SPAC-focused investment management firm specializing in CPG, medtech, fintech, and multi-state cannabis operators. Prior to entering the cannabis industry, he served as the VP and Director of Strategy at BNY Mellon and VP of Corporate Development and M&A at E*Trade Financial Corporation, where he focused on fintech investments and acquisitions. He holds a B.S. in International Relations from Syracuse University, earned his MBA from the University of Virginia Darden School of Business and is a CFA charterholder.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Leadership Team
- VP Human Resources
Beginning her career as a practicing attorney, Francesca specialized in Employment Law litigation for ten years, representing and consulting for both employees and employers. Having been exposed to a broad range of employment-related circumstances, she developed a deep appreciation for the critical role Human Resources plays in any company and its often-overlooked impact on the bottom line. She then put her education and experience to use serving in General Counsel and Human Resources Executive roles in organizations of various sizes and across a range of industries. She has a passion for employee relations and great company culture, and is most satisfied by having a positive, harmonious impact on both as a representative of an organization and an advocate for employees. Francesca graduated from California State University Dominguez Hills with a BA in English Literature, and received her JD from Pepperdine University.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
First African American basketball coach in the Pac-8 (now Pac-12); head coach at Washington State, University of Iowa, & USC; assistant coach of medal-winning 1984 and 1988 US Olympic teams
Job Titles:
- Board Director
- Co - Founder
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Member of the Leadership Team
- President
- Co Founder, President & Board Director
Graham is a serial entrepreneur who began his career as part of the original team at Software.com, taking the company public in 1999. Shortly thereafter, he served on the board of Seacology and was part of the founding team at Sonos, where he was involved with product design, development, sales, and customer support. After Sonos, Farrar served as a board member for Heal the Ocean, was a founder and partner of ebook publishers iStoryTime Inc. and zuuka, and founded a Santa Barbara luxury rental company. He first ventured into the regulated cannabis industry by founding Elite Garden Wholesale, an agriculture technology company focused on developing products for the hydroponics industry. Farrar currently sits on the Board of Directors of The Santa Barbara Bowl Foundation.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Director / Member of California State Assembly Representing L.a. 2004 - 2010 Member of South Gate City Council for 8 Years, Including 2 As Mayor
Job Titles:
- Board Director
- Founder
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Trustee
Founder of Life Line Financial Group, premiere wealth management firm servicing some of the best-known performers & leaders in business, sports & entertainment
Trustee of the University of New Mexico; Board Director for several companies & foundations
Job Titles:
- Member of the Leadership Team
- VP Sales
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Director / Head of Strategy and M & a at Mercer Park LP and AYR Wellness
Jamin Horn - Chief Legal Officer
Job Titles:
- General Counsel
- Member of the Leadership Team
Jamin has over a decade of legal experience in counseling high-growth private and public companies, principally in the medical and digital technology sectors, and over six years of experience advising California and multi-state cannabis operators and associated technology service providers. Prior to becoming an attorney, he worked on investor-side early-stage financing and intellectual property commercialization planning and analysis. Jamin joined FLRish, Inc., the parent company of Harborside, in 2017 as Associate Counsel, where he was responsible for corporate and commercial transactions through the company's growth and public listing before departing at the end of 2020 as VP of Corporate Affairs. He is a member of the California bar, the ACC, and INCBA, and he holds a JD from UC Davis School of Law and a BS in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology from UC Santa Cruz.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Leadership Team
- VP Retail
For over 25 years, Jen has worked to grow and transform retail operations for well-known companies such as Nordstrom and Anthropologie (an Urban Outfitters brand). She joined the cannabis industry in 2018 as Vice President of Retail for Green Thumb Industries (GTI), a publicly-held multi-state operator, where she helped scaled retail expansion from 8 to 25 locations across 7 states and served as a member of the executive leadership team that more than doubled annual revenue while elevating gross profit. Prior to GTI, Jen led large-format and wedding retail brands at Anthropologie/URBN and was the Director of Retail for the Eastern/Western/Southwestern regions, executing the opening of new large-format and wedding stores, launched 80 additional new stores, implemented omnichannel improvement initiatives across the brand, and directed teams of up to 4,000 employees across 11 regions. She credits strong relationship- and team-building as the core principle of her successes.
Glass House Farms has been proud to collaborate with singer-songwriter, musician, and actress Jenny Lewis (Rilo Kiley, The Postal Service) on this hand-selected, special edition Preroll Pack: Rabbit Hole. Working together, we found a perfect strain and format for enhancing creativity, and have been putting it on shelves throughout California since 2019.
Job Titles:
- Board Director
- Co - Founder
- Member of the Board of Directors
Jocelyn began her career as a Teach For America Corps member in New York City. In 2011, she became a founding teacher at KIPP Star Elementary School and quickly became a teacher leader. She began her career in real estate investment in 2013 with Beach Front Properties LLC and managed a $500M portfolio of opportunistic real estate investments. In November of 2016, Rosenwald began supervising the operations of 4 funds in the regulated cannabis industry which would eventually be consolidated to form Glass House Brands. Today, Rosenwald sits on the board of Glass House Brands as a director. She holds a BA from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in Education from Hunter College, and an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Business.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Leadership Team
- VP Investor Relations
John has more than 25 years of investment advisory experience. Prior to joining Glass House Brands, he was Senior Advisor at Quantum International Corporation, Taiwan's premier Capital Market Advisory firm. He was also previously the Head of Research at Yuanta Securities, the No. 1 Broker in Taiwan. While at Yuanta, Mr. Brebeck became the first-ever foreign-born President of Yuanta Investment Consulting. He also was the Head of Research for the Dalton Greater China Fund and continues to serve as an External Director to the Fund. During the early years of Taiwan's rise to become an IT manufacturing powerhouse, Mr. Brebeck was Head of Research & Senior Technology Analyst at JP Morgan Securities in Taiwan, and a key member of JP Morgan's top-ranked Asia Ex-Japan Technology Research Team. John is fluent in Mandarin Chinese, holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in China Regional Studies from Georgetown University and attained his MBA degree at the University of Chicago Booth. He is a CFA Charterholder.
Kyle Kazan - CEO, Chairman, Founder
Job Titles:
- CEO
- Chairman
- Co - Founder
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Member of the Leadership Team
- Co Founder, Chairman & CEO
A seasoned investor and expert manager of private equity funds with over two decades of domestic and international experience, Kyle has a track record of growing de novo companies to industry leadership in the fields of fund/asset management, property management and insurance. In 1991 he began investing in real estate, eventually launching a total of 23 Private Equity funds with a current estimated value of owned and managed properties that stands above $2.75 billion. Kyle also served on the boards of multiple international investment and hedge funds before pivoting in 2016 to the regulated cannabis industry, where he closed four funds and consolidated them to form the vertically integrated Glass House Brands. Since his early service as a special education teacher and law enforcement officer, Kyle has been a vocal advocate for police reform and ending the War on Drugs and its injustices, speaking on behalf of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) and appearing in many media outlets ranging from CNN to Fox. He is a frequent guest professor at NYU Stern School of Business, USC Marshall Business School, and UCLA Anderson School of Management, and Kyle is a graduate of the University of Southern California, where he played varsity basketball for Hall of Fame Coach George Raveling.
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Job Titles:
- Chief Financial Officer
- Member of the Leadership Team
With over 30 years of finance and accounting experience, Mark's career spans a wide variety of industries including retail, CPG, e-commerce, manufacturing, financial services and entertainment. He has worked for some of the world's most iconic enterprises, including Procter and Gamble, Abercrombie and Fitch, Bauer Hockey, and Mattel. From 2019 to 2021, just prior to joining Glass House Brands, Mark was the CFO of Canndescent, a leading producer of premium cannabis. He was also CFO of Francesca's, a women's specialty retailer, from 2013 to 2015, when the company enjoyed annual sales growth rates in excess of 20% and opened 240 new stores. His leadership of turnaround efforts at Bauer Hockey and Mattel generated significant improvements in company profitability, and he has helped engineer two multi-billion-dollar transactions: the merger of XM Satellite Radio with Sirius and the sale of the Sears Credit Card business to Citigroup. He holds a BA in Mathematics from Amherst College and an MBA from Harvard University.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Leadership Team
Job Titles:
- Corporate Finance
- Member of the Leadership Team