Jake Kuczeruk
Director of Cannabis Retailer Sales at New Frontier Data
Jake Kuczeruk
Director of Cannabis Retailer Sales at New Frontier Data
Los Angeles, California
Overview
Work Experience
Director of Cannabis Retailer Sales
2024 - Current
Primarily, I help cannabis retailers to attract and re-engage customers. NFD maintains the largest database of known customers interested in CBD and THC products. This is a goldmine for targeted marketing and personalized customer engagement.
Budist
2023
Agent
2023
As an Agent for GRTR, I help align notable celebrity/athlete partners for cannabis/CPG brands to work with- and vice-versa.
GRTR provides and offers various branding solutions, ideas, and services to develop businesses.
Business Consultant
2022
Supporting Gardenhouse with new market expansion, collabs, and more. DomPen vapes and Koa infused prerolls.
dompen designs and sells flavorful vape products.
Venture Advisor
2022
Investments for a better tomorrow. Sustainability, climate, smart city, etc.
Anthropocene Ventures is a global, early-stage VC firm.
Venture Scout
2022 - 2024
Already have revenue and rapidly need capital? Happy to introduce you to Clearco (no cannabis consumables are permitted).
Global Sales Director
2023 - 2023
Tenacious Labs is a pioneering international consumer products group championing emerging plant-based ingredients, including CBD. It aims to bring clarity, understanding and an unwavering trust to the benefits that these natural ingredients provide.
Head of Partnerships
2022 - 2023
Bluesky is building a portfolio of world class, plant-based wellness brands that empowers a healthier active lifestyle for our customers. Our team of industry pioneers, have built some of the Cannabis and CBD industry's largest and most recognised brands, and are committed to delivering the highest-quality products that really work while reducing the world’s dependence on pharmaceuticals, by providing healthy natural alternatives to live a more healthy, balanced lifestyle. I'm seeking to connect with CBD/hemp distributors, investors, acquisition targets, press, and partners/collabs. Bluesky Wellness Inc is a CBD House of Brands. $25m+ this year (the #6 largest globally by revenue).
Strategic Advisor
2021 - 2023
Managing Director
2021 - 2021
Launched Arcview Management Consulting with David Abernathy in mid-2020, secured outside funding and formally launched our firm at the start of 2021. Capabilities include: Go-to-Market strategies, licensing, valuations, analysis and due-diligence, custom research reports and surveys, C-level/investor education, SOPs development, expansion strategies, ESG/industrial hemp consulting, recruitment and defining key roles, federal readiness preparation, outsourced business development/CSO/CFO work, and M&A guidance.
Managing Director
2020 - 2022
Responsible for advising and mentoring early-stage startups. In addition to offering direct guidance through one-on-one sessions, presenting at monthly events to educate startups around specific subjects (i.e. branding, partnerships, DLT) is core to the role. *I've left my role as Managing Director but still am a mentor/regular fixture. Previously the highest-rated mentor in the Spring '19 program.
Entrepreneur In Residence
2019 - 2020
Responsible for advising and mentoring early-stage startups. In addition to offering direct guidance through one-on-one sessions, presenting at monthly events to educate startups around specific subjects (i.e. branding, partnerships, DLT) is core to the role. Currently the highest rated mentor in the Spring '19 program.