Extensive experience in large-scale agriculture, business operations, sales, and cannabis and plant breeding
TommyBusiness Operations Expert with over a decade of experience.
Relevant Skills
Directs all cultivation operations , building, restructuring, managing teams , launching canopies
Expertise Summary
Tommy, MBA, is a business operations professional with extensive experience in large-scale agriculture, business operations, sales, and cannabis and plant breeding.
He possesses 15+ years of CPG experience in alcoholic beverage, cannabis CBD and THC production.
He is a communicative, results-driven leader who promotes flat, agile structure and effectively connects with all team members.
He is a firm believer that science and robust data analytics lead to prudent financial decisions.
As Senior VP of a premier cannabis business, Tommy built, restructured, and managed a nationally dispersed team of 850 individuals.
He directed all cultivation operations comprising 4.4MM sq. ft. of cultivation capacity.
He also launched 300K sq. ft. of new canopy in 1 year, hired 300 team members to staff the expansions, and increased national yields by 10% in 1 year.
Tommy managed a yearly opex budget of approximately $150M, continuously improving COGS through monthly labor review and analysis, standardization of procurement, and planned energy consumption.
In addition, Tommy has a professional background working in the Wine industry as a Director of Farm Operations for leading companies.
After 15 years in the wine industry, he spent the last year building a national hemp program at a cannabis business as VP of Farming, overlooking all National grow operations and producing 5M lbs. of dry biomass for CBD and rare cannabinoid extraction.
After years of farming, Tommy is convinced that sound business decisions must be grounded in the day-to-day operations of a company and that a direct and honest connection to the raw materials and human capital is what builds brands and is essential to guiding them.
He incorporates this ethos into his leadership style, communicating clearly and effectively with all team members, holding the team accountable while empowering them with the tools to succeed.
Tommy has his MBA along with an extensive educational background in Integrative Biology, Geographic Information Systems, Business Operations and plant genetics and breeding.
He is also Bilingual and can speak Spanish fluently.