Kyle Kazan

Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO

Mr. Kazan is a co-founder of Glass House Brands Inc. and has served as its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer since its inception. He has led the Company’s growth from a privately held business to a publicly traded, vertically integrated cannabis company.

Mr. Kazan is a serial entrepreneur and has more than 30 years of executive leadership experience across real estate, private equity, mergers and acquisitions, and the capital markets. He is the founder and Chairman of Beach Front Properties, LLC and Beach Front Property Management Inc., a privately held real estate investment, property management, and private equity platform with over $5 billion in assets under management. Throughout his career, he has founded, acquired, and managed numerous businesses and investment platforms, with extensive experience in repositioning troubled and underperforming assets, corporate strategy, capital formation and post -acquisition integration. Prior to forming the Company, Mr. Kazan launched and managed a series of private equity funds and, in 2020, these funds were consolidated to establish Glass House Brands.

Mr. Kazan has served on the boards of many international investment and hedge funds and has been a longtime advocate for criminal justice and drug policy reform, including through Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP). Mr. Kazan received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Southern California, where he played on the varsity basketball team for Hall of Fame coach George Raveling.

Graham Farrar

Co-Founder, President & Director

Graham is a serial entrepreneur who began his career as part of the original team at Software.com, taking the company public in 1999. Shortly thereafter, he served on the board of Seacology and was part of the founding team at Sonos, where he was involved with product design, development, sales, and customer support. After Sonos, Farrar served as a board member for Heal the Ocean, was a founder and partner of ebook publishers iStoryTime Inc. and zuuka, and founded a Santa Barbara luxury rental company. He first ventured into the regulated cannabis industry by founding Elite Garden Wholesale, an agriculture technology company focused on developing products for the hydroponics industry. Farrar currently sits on the Board of Directors of The Santa Barbara Bowl Foundation.

John ‘Jay’ Nichols Jr.

Director

Mr. Nichols is an innovative leader with substantial expertise in growing and transforming companies that have strong regulatory oversight. An accomplished insurance and reinsurance executive, Jay has more than four decades of experience in corporate strategy, operations and finance. Most recently, Nichols served as Chairman of the Board and Interim CEO – by request of the board – at Protective Insurance Company, where he oversaw the acquisition of the company by Progressive Insurance Company. Prior to that, he was the CEO of Axis Reinsurance Ltd. Before this, Nichols spent 15 years at RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd, eventually serving as President of RenaissanceRe Ventures. After having joined as the Controller in 1995, Mr. Nichols spearheaded the company’s growth via strategic acquisitions and accessing third party capital through joint ventures. He also previously held senior executive and financial reporting positions at Hartford Steam Boiler and Monarch Life Insurance Company, and at the leading international forensic accounting firm, Matson, Driscoll & Damico.

Hector De La Torre

Director

Hector De La Torre is a veteran public servant with significant government and nonprofit experience. He is currently a member of the board and former two-term chair at LA Care (the largest public nonprofit health plan in the United States), a trustee and co-chair of the Obama Scholars Advisory Council at his alma mater Occidental College in Los Angeles, and an Assembly appointee member of the California Air Resources Board. De La Torre served in the California State Assembly from 2004 to 2010, representing the largely Latino 50th District in southeast LA County. He chaired the Budget Subcommittee on Health and Human Services, the Rules Committee, and helped create and chair the Accountability and Administrative Review Committee during his tenure. De La Torre was recently the Executive Director of the nonprofit Gasol Foundation, which focuses on children and wellness, and the national non-profit Transamerica Center for Health Studies. Prior to his service in the Assembly, he served as Mayor and as a member of the South Gate City Council, as Judicial Administrator in the LA Superior Court, as chief of staff to the Deputy Secretary of Labor in the Clinton Administration, and as a teacher at Edison Junior High in south LA. De La Torre received his bachelor’s degree in Diplomacy and World Affairs from Occidental College and attended the Elliot School of International Affairs at George Washington University. He lives in South Gate.

Jocelyn Rosenwald

Co-Founder & Director

Ms. Rosenwald is a founding member of Glass House Brands Inc. and has served on its board of directors since 2016, where she currently serves as a member of the Product Expansion Committee. A licensed real estate broker in the State of California, Ms. Rosenwald has built a distinguished career spanning the acquisition, financing, and asset management of commercial real estate across the multifamily, industrial, and retail sectors. Over more than a decade, she has founded and led a range of successful investment enterprises across real estate and finance, including as a Managing Director of Beach Front Properties LLC, a private investment firm that manages capital on behalf of high-net-worth individuals and institutional investors with over $1 billion in assets under management. She further serves as a member of the board of directors of Dalton Investments LLC, a global investment management firm with approximately $6 billion in assets under management. Ms. Rosenwald holds a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from the Anderson School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Humble Lukanga

Director

• Founder of Life Line Financial Group, premiere wealth management firm servicing some of the best-known performers & leaders in business, sports & entertainment
• Trustee of the University of New Mexico; Board Director for several companies & foundations
• B.A. & M.B.A. University of New Mexico; certified CFP; UCLA Personal Finance Planning degree
• Named to The Hollywood Reporter’s Top Business Managers list for 3 years running; New Mexico Business Weekly’s “Top 40 Under 40”

Yelena Katchko

Director

Yelena is an attorney and a founding partner of Katchko, Vitiello & Karikomi, PC, a well-regarded law firm located in Los Angeles, California with an authentic and deep-rooted presence in the local cannabis industry. At the helm of KVK’s cannabis practice group, Yelena handles intricate transactional, commercial, licensing, and regulatory compliance matters within the cannabis sphere. Ms. Katchko began representing medicinal cannabis clients in the City of Los Angeles in 2010 and has become one of the industry’s most recognized names. Her experience includes involvement in shaping the Medicinal and Adult Use cannabis regulations in both the City of Los Angeles and the State of California through her expansive professional network, pro bono affiliations, local alliances and engagements in town halls. In particular, Yelena was integral to the city-wide resolution of City of Los Angeles v. 420 Grand et al. which provided a framework for Proposition D’s limited immunity and, later, Measure M’s priority licensure. She has developed significant experience in local government matters by being a key part of discussions with officials on the constantly changing cannabis regulatory landscape and by working closely with policymakers to advocate on behalf of her clients. In addition to her professional commitments, Yelena serves as the Vice Chair of Programming for the Los Angeles County Bar Association – Cannabis Section and as affiliate counsel for the United Cannabis Business Association (UCBA), a statewide trade association built by the leaders of the California cannabis industry.

Alison Payne

Director

Alison is an expert in branding and marketing, with extensive experience in driving brand growth across multiple categories including beer, spirits, snacks and breakfast foods in the US and Europe. She currently serves as the Chief Marketing Officer of Heineken, USA. During her career she held senior roles at PepsiCo, Kellogg Company, and Diageo. She received her BA in Commerce with a major in Marketing from The University of New South Wales and an MBA in Marketing & Strategy from The London Business School.