February 2024 Special Elections

Spent 35 years growing companies in the DoD and Intelligence Community and a year ago i was exposed to industrial hemp and saw a massive opportunity to use my background along with working with industry leaders to promote the use of industrial hemp in the US. In that year I have invested my own money and have worked closely with farmers, processors and manufacturers to begin to help open up larger opportunities. We development and donated an online marketplace for the industry called metaihemp which can help answers the questions around supply and demand and connect farmers, processors and manufactures based on specification. I have also worked on both sides of the isle on capitol hill trying to educate and get the word out.

Alaska

30+ years in commercial and residential real estate development and investment. Agricultural & Horticultural Consultant in traditional farming, greenhouse growing practices, landscape design, Site Engineering & Hardscaping. As a hemp, agriculture and business consultant, I have participated in the research of growing, processing, manufacturing and marketing of both Grain/Fiber Hemp and CBD Hemp products. I am an owner and previous CEO of Vermont Hemp Company, a hemp agriculture and marketing consulting company, and a shareholder of the country’s leading hemp foods company, Victory Hemp, who’s proprietary patented hemp food products will change the quickly growing plant-based food space. I’ve watched and waited while hemp laws and regulations have formed & reformed, through our initial academic research crops to the legalization and boom of the CBD Goldrush that followed, waiting for the states and USDA’s stance on all thing hemp to stabilize and the rest of the country to catch up to my enthusiasm and outlook on the future of hemp in US agriculture and industry. I believe we are at the tipping point where the USDA undoubtably has hemp on its radar now as an undeniably versatile and sustainable agricultural product and is beginning to work with hemp, agriculture and business groups to find ways to support the many possible markets hemp can bring to enrich the US economy, and agriculture, and address climate change as a carbon negative crop. In my hemp research I took a hard look at what would be necessary to create a supply chain and infrastructure model for this crop and its myriad of products where it could compete on a global level and be grown as an agricultural commodity, and realized the only time tested and successful models were in Europe and Asia, with Canada making huge strides in the past decade, and knew the US would have to learn from and mirror those models to get a hemp industry up and running. My goal with SUSAGRO is to provide the incubation and acceleration, guidance, support and funding of hemp and sustainable agriculture start ups that are ready to scale to market.