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Dina Rollman

Independent Director

Dina Rollman is the CEO of StrainBrain, the leading AI-powered technology company revolutionizing legal cannabis shopping experiences through personalized product recommendations. She is also a Board Member of its parent company, PowerPlant, and Co-founder of KND Group, a law and consulting firm specializing in highly-regulated industries, including cannabis.

A cannabis industry pioneer for over a decade, Dina was part of Green Thumb Industries’ founding team, helping the company go from an idea on paper in 2014, to a publicly traded company, to an industry leader with $1B in annual revenue. Eventually serving as Senior Vice President, she created and led the company’s regulatory affairs department at all levels of government and provided diverse legal counsel, securing numerous licenses, establishing its social impact program, and assisting in matters including Green Thumb’s public listing on the Canadian Securities Exchange.

Her leadership in cannabis law and her successes helping businesses thrive have been marked by roles as a government affairs executive, in-house counsel, chief compliance officer, regulatory advisor and liaison, trade association board member, adjunct professor and creator of a law school cannabis course, and co-founder and president of the leading Illinois not-for-profit networking organization Illinois Women in Cannabis. Dina’s significant industry impact has been recognized by the likes of The American Lawyer, Crain’s Chicago Business, Chicago Sun-Times, and South by Southwest. Previous to her work in cannabis, Dina was a partner at a business litigation law firm in Chicago, where she spent a decade representing plaintiffs and defendants in business disputes nationwide. She attended Oberlin College and received her J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law.

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Peter Martay

Independent Director

Peter Martay, 46, has served as a member of our board of directors since March 2021. Beginning in August 2019, Mr. Martay served as Chairman of the board of directors of the company we merged with in March 2021. Mr. Martay joined our board of directors upon completion of the merger. Mr. Martay is currently the Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Pangea Properties, a private REIT based in Chicago. He joined Pangea Properties in 2009 as the company’s fifth employee and the Chief Investment Officer and took over as CEO in 2017. During Mr. Martay’s tenure at Pangea Properties, he has directly overseen the acquisition of over 500 properties, totaling more than 13,000 apartments and over $1 billion in value. Mr. Martay helped create the lending division at Pangea Properties, Pangea Mortgage Capital, which has completed over $500 million in short-term bridge loans on numerous property types across the country. Prior to joining Pangea Properties, Mr. Martay served as Vice President at Bernstein Global Wealth Management from 2005 to 2009. From 2002 until 2004, Mr. Martay also worked as an associate for the Chicago-based private equity firm, Glencoe Capital. Mr. Martay started his career in investment banking at Deutsche Bank, as part of the Leveraged Finance Group, and received his BBA from the University of Michigan’s Stephen M. Ross School of Business.

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Peter Kadens

Independent Director

Peter Kadens, 46, has served as a member of our board of directors since March 2021. Beginning in August 2019, Mr. Kadens served as a member of the board of directors of the company we merged with in March 2021. Mr. Kadens joined our board of directors upon completion of the merger. Mr. Kadens currently serves as Chairman of Kadens Family Holdings, a single-family office focused on impact investments. Prior to these roles, Mr. Kadens was the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Green Thumb Industries Inc. (OTCQX: GTBIF), one of the largest publicly-traded legal cannabis operators in the U.S. Mr. Kadens also previously served as a director of the Marijuana Policy Project (MPP), the Cannabis Trade Federation (CTF), and KushCo Holdings, Inc. (OTCQX: KSHB) and previously served as a director of until its merger with Greenlane (NASDAQ: GNLN) in August 2021. Mr. Kadens currently serves as a director of Choice Consolidation Corp., a SPAC targeting the cannabis industry. In 2018, Mr. Kadens was named one of 20 People to Watch in the cannabis industry by Marijuana Business Daily. Prior to serving as Chief Executive Officer of Green Thumb Industries Inc., Mr. Kadens founded SoCore Energy, one of the largest commercial solar companies in the U.S. Under his leadership, SoCore Energy expanded operations into 17 states and was named one of Chicago’s most innovative businesses by Chicago Innovation Awards. Mr. Kadens eventually sold SoCore Energy to Edison International, a Fortune 500 energy holding company. In addition, Mr. Kadens currently serves as the Chairman of the Kadens Family Foundation, a charitable organization dedicated to closing the pervasive wealth and education gaps in the U.S.

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Alan Carr

Independent Director

Alan Carr, 54, is a member of our board of directors, and has served as a member of our board of directors since August 2019. Beginning in 2013, Mr. Carr has served as the Co-Founder, Managing Member and Chief Executive Officer of Drivetrain LLC. Prior to co-founding Drivetrain LLC, Mr. Carr served as a Managing Director at Strategic Value Partners from 2003 to 2013, leading investments in various sectors in North America and Europe. From 1997 until 2003, Mr. Carr was a corporate attorney at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meager & Flom and before that, at Ravin, Sarasohn, Baumgarten, Fisch & Rosen. He currently serves as a director of two public companies: Unit Corporation and Cazoo Group Ltd. Mr. Carr has previously, and does currently, serve as a director on several other boards in diverse industries and throughout the world. Mr. Carr received a B.A. in Economics from Brandeis University and Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Tulane Law School.

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Joyce Johnson

Independent Director

Joyce Johnson, 57, is a member of our board of directors. Ms. Johnson currently serves as Chairwoman and Chief Investment Officer for Pacific Gate Capital, a valueoriented fund of funds that focuses on U.S. private credit investments. Prior to Pacific Gate Capital, Ms. Johnson’s investment experiences include senior management positions at Citibank, ING, Relativity Capital (a women and minority owned firm) and Cerberus Capital Management, a $45 billion investment firm where she was the 2nd employee to join the firm. While employed at Cerberus, Ms. Johnson founded JJM, LLC a $300 million distressed private equity fund that successfully invested in women and minority owned companies. An experienced board member for more than 25 companies over the past 25 years, Ms. Johnson currently serves as chair of the board of directors of Ayr Wellness (OTCQX: AYRWF), an expanding vertically integrated, U.S. multi-state cannabis operator; Kymera International, a portfolio company of Palladium Equity Partners, a $3.3 billion private equity fund; Omaha National Insurance Company (private) an Agman Partners portfolio company; and SportsTek,(NASDAQ: SPTKU), which invests in sports and sports related technology companies. Ms. Johnson is a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute and currently serves on the boards of the Chicago Counsel for Global Affairs, the Chicago Sinfonietta and is Chairman Emeritus of the DuSable Museum. Ms. Johnson received her BS in Finance from the University of Denver. Qualifies as a financial expert as defined by the applicable SEC regulations and OTCQX corporate governance requirements.

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David Weinstein

Director

David Weinstein, 57, has served as a member of our board of directors since August 2019 and our Chief Executive Officer from August 2020 to July 2022. In addition, Mr. Weinstein is an advisor to a partnership that is focused on the development of a 74-acre maritime port in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Mr. Weinstein was a partner at Belvedere Capital, a real estate investment firm based in New York, from 2008 to 2013, and again from 2016 to 2020. Most recently, he focused on Belvedere’s investment in Industry City, a six million square foot redevelopment project in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. From December 2017 to June 2021, Mr. Weinstein served as a member of the board of directors of Leisure Acquisition Corp., a Nasdaq listed special purpose acquisition corporation and from February 2015 to August 2016, Mr. Weinstein served as a member of the board of directors of Forestar Group, Inc., a NYSE-listed real estate and oil and gas company. Prior to that, Mr. Weinstein served as a member of the board of directors beginning in 2008, and as President and Chief Executive Officer beginning in 2010, of MPG Office Trust, Inc., a NYSE-listed office REIT, until the sale of the company in 2013. From 2007 to 2008, Mr. Weinstein was a Managing Director of Westbridge Investment Group/Westmont Hospitality Group, a real estate investment fund focused on hospitality. Mr. Weinstein worked at Goldman, Sachs & Co. from 1996 to 2007, first in the real estate investment banking group (focused on mergers, asset sales and corporate finance) and then in the Special Situations Group (focused on real estate debt investments). Mr. Weinstein received a B.S. in Economics, magna cum laude, with a concentration in finance, from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a Juris Doctor, cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He is a member of the New York State Bar Association.

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Gordon DuGan

Independent Chair of the Board of Directors

Gordon DuGan, 57, is the Chairman of our board of directors and has served as Chairman of our board of directors since April 2019. Mr. DuGan is also the Chairman of Indus Realty Trust, formerly a Nasdaq-listed industrial REIT that was taken private in 2023 by Centerbridge Partners and GIC, the sovereign wealth fund of the Government of Singapore. Mr. DuGan is the Co-Founder and Chairman of Blackbrook Capital, an investment fund focused on industrial and net lease investments in Europe. Mr. DuGan is the former Chief Executive Officer of Gramercy Property Trust (“Gramercy”), a formerly NYSE-listed industrial REIT, which was sold to Blackstone Equity Partners VIII, LP for $7.6 billion in October of 2018. After becoming the Chief Executive Officer of Gramercy in 2012, Mr. DuGan oversaw the growth of Gramercy from $300 million in net assets during which time Gramercy became the third best performing REIT in the U.S. Prior to his work for Gramercy, Mr. DuGan was Chief Executive Officer of W.P. Carey & Co., (“WPC”), a NYSE-listed triple-net lease REIT, from 2003 until 2010. During this time, WPC grew to $10 billion in assets, maintained its dividend during the financial crisis, and significantly outperformed the MSCI US REIT index. Mr. DuGan also founded the European investment business of both WPC and Gramercy during his tenure at those companies and oversaw over $4 billion in European investments. In addition, Mr. DuGan is a former member of the Board of Governors of NAREIT. Mr. DuGan is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is the Treasurer of the Innocence Project. Mr. DuGan received a B.S. in Economics with a concentration in Finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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