Mitch Kahn
Director
Over his career, Mitchell Kahn has demonstrated a successful track record of business management, strong leadership, and entrepreneurship. Mitch was the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Grassroots Cannabis, a private, vertically integrated, cannabis operation in the United States that was recently purchased by Curaleaf Holdings Inc. Mitch co-founded the company in 2014 and oversaw its growth to over 1100 team members across 11 states and the successful approval of more than 60 regulatory licenses in the emerging cannabis sector. Prior to Grassroots Cannabis, Mitch co-founded Frontline Real Estate Partners, a Chicago-based real estate investment and advisory company with expertise in the acquisition, development, management, disposition and leasing of commercial real estate properties throughout the United States. He actively serves as Chairman of Frontline Real Estate Partners and Fyllo Inc. He is also a director of both Curaleaf Holdings Inc. (CSE listed) and Flower One Holdings Inc. (CSE listed).
Robert Koffman
Director
Robert Koffman, MD, MPH, is a retired Navy Medical Corps Captain, now caring for active duty and veteran populations in a volunteer capacity. Dr. Koffman finished his 32-year career as a psychiatrist and preventive medicine physician, his terminal assignment was the Chief of Clinical Operations at the National Intrepid Center of Excellence aboard the Walter Reed campus in Bethesda, Maryland. He served as the Navy’s first head of Combat and Operational Stress Control, which included advising the Navy Surgeon as Navy Medicine’s inaugural Director for Psychological Health. As Director of Deployment Health during the war in Iraq, Dr. Koffman oversaw the management of over US$100 million in military spending to tackle the burgeoning problem of the “hidden wounds of war”, including psychological health issues and blast related Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and mild Traumatic Brain Injury. A subject matter expert in operational medicine, psychiatry, and neuroscience, he has dedicated himself to improving the delivery of mental health care in operational settings. A medical acupuncturist, Dr. Koffman is also passionate advocate for the promotion of non-stigmatizing (non-traditional) psychological services and integrative modalities. Dr. Koffman left active service in 2015 to begin his education in psychedelic assisted therapies and is currently completing a certificate in psychedelic assisted therapies and research curriculum at California Institute of Integral Studies. Robert is on track to study and assess MDMA-Assisted Therapy for PTSD under FDA approved expanded access this summer at the Bill Richards’ Center for Healing at the Aquilino Cancer Center, Rockville, MD.
George Michael Steinbrenner IV
Director
George is an entrepreneur and philanthropist having established a talent management agency, a business incubator and the George4 Foundation. He is also the Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of Steinbrenner Racing which is involved with the NTT INDYCAR Series.
Ian Burnstein
Director
Burnstein brings a deep understanding of investment strategies, entrepreneurship, market knowledge, and philanthropy. He is the principal and co-founder of Equitable Advisors, a full-service advisory firm helping entrepreneurs execute on their business model, and serves as the Detroit Chair of Tiger 21, an investment group and peer membership organization for high-net-worth wealth creators. He is also the owner of Storage Pro Management, which oversees self-storage facilities in several states, and founded the Storage Business Owners Alliance, a buying cooperative group for self-storage owners.