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Management
MATTHEW J.
COHEN, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER, DIRECTOR
Matthew
Cohen co-founded
Stem Holdings, Inc.
in 2016 and has been
an independent
consultant to Stem
Holdings, Inc. the
last five years.
Currently, Mr.
Cohen serves as
Chief Executive
Officer and Chief
Financial Officer.
Mr. Cohen has over
38 years of
experience serving
in corporate
leadership roles,
investing capital,
structuring, and
funding
public/private
partnerships, and
providing strategic
advisory services to
companies throughout
the U.S.,
Europe, Asia and
Latin America.
Specifically, Mr.
Cohen has held the
titles of Chief
Executive Officer,
Chief Operating
Officer, Chief
Financial Officer
and Chief Recovery
Officer, President,
Vice President, and
Secretary and has
extensive experience
in business
combinations and
valuations, mergers
and acquisitions,
reverse mergers,
revenue recognition,
equity-based
compensation,
initial public
offerings, secondary
offerings, debt
offerings
and REIT compliance.
He is also
knowledgeable in the
requirements of the
Sarbanes-Oxley Act
of 2002, including
internal controls
and Section
404, as well as the
significant issues
facing SEC
registrants. Mr.
Cohen, as well as
being a C-suite
officer, has also
served on many
publicly traded
company boards and
was the Chairman of
the Audit Committee
for several
companies across a
variety of
industries including
diagnostic services,
aerospace, benefits
and services
company, consumer
retail, and biotech.
He also worked in
the Investment
Banking Division at
Oppenheimer as
an Analyst early in
his career. Mr.
Cohen earned a B.B.A.
degree in Accounting
from New Paltz State
University in New
York in 1980 and in
that same
year, was the
recipient of the
school’s annual
scholar athlete
award. He is a
member of the AICPA.
Board of Directors & Advisors
ROGER RAI
Mr.
Rai was appointed a
director of the
Company on March 4,
2022, having
previously served as
a director of the
Company from May
2018 to February
2019. In his
capacity as Special
Advisor to the
Chairman at Rogers
Communications,
Roger Rai advises
Edward Rogers, who
is the representative
controlling
shareholder of
Rogers
Communications (TSX:RCI.b),
on business
development, revenue
development,
partnership development,
talent development
and sports.
Previously, Roger
was the Managing
Director for E.S.
Rogers Enterprises
from 2004 to 2018.
In
that
capacity,
he gained extensive
experience in
strategic management
services, including
business processes
assessment and
advisory services.
Roger is currently
the President of R3
Concepts Inc., a
consulting and
investments company
located in Toronto,
Canada. Since 2012,
he has also
served
as an advisor to
Chobani, Inc., a
retail food services
company.
From 2010 to 2016,
Roger was the Vice
President, Business
Development, Keek
Inc. (TSXV:KEK). In
this capacity, Roger
was responsible for
all
new
business and
partnership
development at the
Company.
Before Keek Inc.,
Roger was the
Director of
Development at
C.O.R.E. Feature
Animation, a Company
that produced the
children’s
animation movie
“The
Wild.” He was the
Founder and VP,
Business Development
of Fastvibe Inc., a
web-streaming
equipment and
services company
located in Toronto.
Roger
also held various
managerial positions
at Rogers Cable
Systems and Rogers
Wireless, one Canada’s
largest
Communications
companies.
Roger sits on the
Board of Directors
for CONSTANTINE
Enterprises Inc., a
privately held real
estate Company based
in Toronto, with
operations in
Canada
and the Bahamas.
He is one of the
founders and on the
Board of Directors
for the ONEXONE
Foundation, a
charitable
organization focused
on global child
welfare.
Mr. Rai holds a
Bachelor of Arts
from the University
of Western Ontario
and lives in
Toronto.
ROBERT
DIENER
Mr.
Diener has been the
principal of the Law
Offices of Robert
Diener for over
twenty years. He has
nearly 50 years of
experience as an
attorney, senior
corporate executive
and director,
counsel and advisor.
The focus of his
legal practice is
corporate and
securities law,
mergers and
acquisitions,
finance
and real estate. He
has an extensive
background and
experience in
corporate
governance, public
accounting and
finance and
strategic
planning.
Mr. Diener currently
serves as counsel to
public and private
companies, investors
and companies which
are focused on
formation or
acquisition of
public
companies in the
United States. His
principal focus is
on “going public”
transactions and as
“virtual general
counsel” to
smaller
publicly-reporting
companies.
His experience runs
the full gamut from
corporate finance,
mergers and
acquisitions,
investment
activities,
corporate
governance, state
and
federal securities law compliance and major contract negotiations.
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