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.