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.