John Sullivan is the Executive Vice President of Public Affairs at Cresco Labs, a leading vertically integrated Multistate Operator (“MSO”) in the cannabis industry with a presence in 11 states, including New York, Illinois, California, and Pennsylvania. Mr. Sullivan has worked in the cannabis field for nearly five years, and in his current position manages Cresco’s government relations and social justice and community integration units, regularly interfacing with regulators, community leaders, and other stakeholders. Prior to joining Cresco, Mr. Sullivan served as the president of an Illinois cannabis company, overseeing all aspects of its operations, including the day-to-day operations of the company’s two Illinois dispensaries located in Rockford, Illinois and in the Wrigleyville neighborhood of Chicago. In 2014, Mr. Sullivan successfully drafted applications for those dispensary licenses, which were among the first medical dispensary licenses awarded in Illinois. In his former position, Mr. Sullivan also established standard operating procedures (SOPs) for the dispensaries that ensured regulatory compliance and brought great profitability.

Prior to entering the cannabis space, Mr. Sullivan spent many years working as a lawyer in both public and private practice. Among his experience, Mr. Sullivan served as the First Assistant Commissioner at the Board of Review, the Illinois regulatory agency that adjudicates all Cook County, Illinois and Chicago property tax appeals. In addition to working as an attorney in the private sector, Mr. Sullivan spent ten years as an Assistant Cook County State’s Attorney, a career that included a term as a senior prosecutor in the Gang Crimes Unit. In that role he helped keep Chicago streets safe and prosecuted hundreds of bench and jury trials. This experience provided Mr. Sullivan with a first-hand look at the negative consequences of the 50-year War on Drugs and the underserved needs of the urban Chicago community, which serves him in his current role.

Kevin Schultz specializes in tenant representation and business development across

North America. Kevin joined Newmark’s Chicago office in 2015 and brings an array of

experience and expertise in finance, business ethics, lease negotiations and

exceptional customer service.

Previously, Kevin worked in Newmark’s Retail Capital Markets group, where he guided

private and institutional owners in the valuation and disposition of food-anchored

shopping centers, neighborhood centers, power centers, enclosed regional malls and

single-tenant net leased assets throughout the country.

Kevin strives to strengthen the representation of his clients across North America,

working hand-in-hand with clients/licensees to develop and implement strategic growth

programs, resulting in site selection/acquisition and disposition of retail, office, industrial

properties, as well as sale-leaseback transactions. Kevin is experienced in zoning

compliance and municipal regulations, identifying, negotiating and opening cultivation,

dispensaries, manufacturing, testing facilities and office headquarters including

facilitating the refinancing of debt with approved lenders.

Education

Kevin earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics with a business cognate from

Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan.

Dan Tausk is a 25 year retail specialist for Mid-America Real Estate Corporation and leads its Urban Tenant Representation Group. Promoted to Partner in 2011, Mr. Tausk is involved with both product and tenant representation concentrating primarily on Urban Chicago and the near surround Suburbs. He also serves as the Urban Leader to Mid-America's Medical Retail Division started in 2014. Mr. Tausk brings a depth of real estate research, specialty marketing and site selection experience as a foundation to helping assist clients in making well-informed real estate decisions. Mr. Tausk's command of data and market trends concerning Chicago's unique neighborhoods, retail and residential markets have enabled him to be interviewed and cited by such publications as the Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Crain's Chicago Business, Metro Chicago Real Estate Journal, Grocery Store News and has appeared on WLS-TV and WBBM Radio locally. Since 2009, Mr. Tausk also authors Mid-America's bi-annual Urban Grocery Study which analyzes supply and demand characteristics in this important segment of "daily needs" retail in Chicago. More recently, he has appeared on various industry panels regarding Illinois growing Cannabis industry.

Richard serves as Chief Executive Officer of Subversive Real Estate Acquisition REIT LP (NEO: SVX) and Inception REIT Inc., both cannabis focused real estate investment vehicles. Previously, Richard served as the Chief Financial Officer of SBE (SLS Hotels), a global hospitality company where he, among other responsibilities, focused on corporate and asset level transactions. Prior to joining SBE in 2014, Richard was a Director at Colony Capital, a global real estate private equity firm, where he focused on executing and managing over $9 billion of private equity investments primarily in the gaming, hospitality, and media industries. Prior to Colony, Richard worked in Wells Fargo’s Real Estate Merchant Banking division. Richard holds a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Southern California.

Manages the project management and development team at MB Real Estate - Winner of Project Manager of the Year at the Chicago Commercial Real Estate Awards. Over $1B worth of projects - ground-up development, healthcare, tenant improvement, lab development, asset enhancement, education and religious institutions.

Andy Poticha is Founder and Chief Executive Office of Mosaic Construction and its affiliated brands Design Construction Concepts (DCC) and Cannabis Facility Construction (CFC) a design-build firm based in Northbrook, Illinois. Since 2014, Andy has helped CFC become a national, industry leader in the design and construction of cannabis facilities helping multistate operators (MSOs), independent operators and start-up entrepreneurs to determine their design and construction needs. Currently, CFC has completed or is in-process of working on over eighty (80) cultivation facilities, processing centers, infusion labs and dispensary projects in twelve (13) states.

With 30+ years of design, sales and construction management experience, Andy understands the unique challenges facing cannabis business owners and investors. In addition to meeting compliance, regulatory, and operational requirements, CFC designs cultivation and processing centers that provide optimal conditions for indoor growing as well as productive working environments. CFC recognizes that dispensaries must create best-in-class, retail experiences that focus on the client experience while working within operational requirements, budgetary constraints and completion schedules.

Andy also devotes significant personal time and effort to multiple charitable organizations. His community leadership, industry designations and professional affiliations include Chair of the Building Committee and Member of the Executive Committee of the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center and a Board Member of JMFC Facilities Corporation. Andy is also a member of several cannabis and construction industry groups including the National Cannabis Industry Association (NCIA) and the Cannabis Business Association of Illinois (CBAI).

Andy earned his Bachelor of Arts in Architectural Studies and Master of Architecture from the University of Illinois.

John Gaines, a Director in Newmark’s Chicago office, specializes in the tenant

representation, landlord representation and business development of new clients in the

Greater Chicagoland and Midwest region. John works with clients in a wide variety of

industries, utilizing strategic planning to optimally meet their needs. He is responsible

for performing market research, financial and demographic analyses and for executing

activities that support a variety of transaction requirements, including relocations,

renewals/renegotiations and dispositions.

John, who joined Newmark in 2007, is experienced in working with various MSO’s (both

public and private), throughout North America. He focuses on tenant representation,

site selection/acquisition, demographic analysis/ geographic information systems,

zoning compliance, and lease negotiations. John has been successful in assisting

licensees with identifying, negotiating and opening cultivation, dispensaries,

manufacturing, testing facilities and office headquarters including facilitating refinancing

of debt with approved lenders.

Education

John earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology from Southern Methodist

University.

Tama Huang is Chief Innovation Officer. A member of CohnReznick’s senior leadership team, she leads a culture of innovation – cultivating teaming across the Firm to generate new ideas, implement emerging technologies, and improve procedures to drive growth for the Firm and its people. She also works closely with other Firm leaders throughout the world to innovate through global strategic alliances and partnerships.

Tama was previously Principal and Global Real Estate Advisory Services Leader of CohnReznick, formerly NOI Strategies. She launched NOI Strategies in 2003 to meet the unique needs of the commercial real estate industry using technology to improve business processes. She has helped build NOI Strategies into a global business serving many of the world’s largest commercial real estate firms.

With experience in pharma, biotech, insurance and beyond, Tama is a business transformation visionary who has led process improvement projects in Europe and North America, managed implementation of enterprise-wide financial applications, and designed and deployed business intelligence solutions. She has also led cross-functional teams on behalf of numerous clients, helping them improve operational efficiency and maximize property, portfolio, and corporate performance.

Stanley S. Jutkowitz, senior counsel in Seyfarth Shaw LLP’s Washington, D.C. office, concentrates his practice on domestic and international business transactions and tax planning, counseling on corporate and business matters, and real estate transactions. He is also the founding editor of the firm’s marijuana law blog, The Blunt Truth (blunttruthlaw.com) and heads the firm’s cannabis practice. Mr. Jutkowitz has taught a number of continuing legal education courses on various aspects of cannabis law. His cannabis law experience includes counseling businesses on the legal risks of selling into the cannabis industry both in the US and internationally, representing lenders and property owners in real estate transactions, mergers and acquisitions, counseling investors on cannabis investments, tax planning and banking. His real estate experience includes the acquisition, development, sale and leasing of commercial, retail and residential property on behalf of domestic and foreign investors, and the representation of specialty users of real estate, such as companies with security clearance, technology companies and biotech companies. His transactional experience includes representation of emerging and other privately and publicly held companies in connection with mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity financing, venture capital transactions and public offerings of stock and tax planning and structuring entities for both inbound and outbound cross border mergers and acquisitions.