Steve has over 13 years of experience in the cannabis industry, including growing, processing, and infusing edibles. He founded one of the country’s first legal cannabis production-processing facilities in Washington and secured one of the first “green” bank accounts. In 2018, he raised $4.5M to build a large-scale cGMP hemp processing facility in Oregon. Today, he is a consultant to hemp and cannabis companies around the world, as well as a Director of Sales for SciPhy Systems. Steve is also the COO of a New York processing start-up, and he regularly contributes to industry publications like Hemp Benchmarks and Marijuana Venture. In addition, Steve has been featured as a speaker at events like The Global Cannabis Executive Conference in Toronto, NECANN, and the International Cannabis Business Conference (ICBC) in Berlin Germany.