We Solve Problems.
We are Pioneers. Builders. Designers. Thought leaders.
Greener Consulting Group is the culmination of the industry’s top minds into a conglomerate of vast experience and knowledge. With over 5 decades of combined experience, our team of cannabis consultants has built businesses that lead the industry. From business to cultivation, to policy and regulation, we have done it all.
We extend this experience to you. Whether you’re a small town or a big state that needs help drafting regulation, just starting your business, or deep into operations, our cannabis consultants at Greener Group can answer all of your questions and solve any problem.
Unlike other cannabis consulting companies that rely on one individual for all of their knowledge, Greener Group accesses specialists throughout the cannabis industry.
We will build your business, design your facilities, staff your team, and find your supplies. We are a full-service consultation firm that will produce results superior to the industry standard.
Meet our team.
Chip Baker - Founder
Adviser
Business Development, Project Development, Advisement, Supply Chain, Outdoor and Greenhouse Cultivation, Product Formulation
Chip is an early pioneer of the cultivation industry. Chip has an innate horticultural knowledge that fostered his ideas about developing ancillary businesses to support the new booming industry. With 30 years in the industry Chip has become a leader in business development, composting, soil development and cultivation technology applications, and has advised people all over the world about cannabis. Chip is a multi-state operator with seven licenses in three states.
Medical cultivation, California (1997)
Founded Royal Gold Soil (2006)
Founded Humboldt Flower Products (2008)
Founded Cultivate Colorado in Wheat Ridge, CO (2009)
Private pilot’s license (2013)
Consulting to business and growers in Washington, California, Alaska, Colorado, and California (2015)
California medical cultivation license, processing license and distribution license (2016)
Founded Growers Coco (2017)
Founded National Seed Co hemp genetics seed bank (2018)
Opened Cultivate OKC in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (2019)
Bakers Medical, Oklahoma (2019)
Cultivation (indoor, outdoor, greenhouse), Extraction, Dispensary and Nursery
Jim Gerencser - Founder
Adviser
Business Development, Networking, Multi-State Operation, Advisement
Jim is a serial entrepreneur. From the age of eight he started selling cinnamon toothpicks in elementary school, which led to all different types of candies, fireworks, and ultimately drugs.
He started his automotive business in 1982, and it is now run by his son, Eric. Last year they did approximately $12 million in sales.
Jim has invested in over 15 different cannabis companies, most of them related to fighting cancer with cannabis as his son Eric is a cancer survivor. Currently Jim runs a charity called Early Recognition Is Critical (ERIC) and believes cancer can be cured with cannabis.
Justin Jones
Medical/Recreational Dispensary, Cultivation and Compliance
METRC, Hemp Cultivation, Indoor Cultivation, Large Scale Production, Regulatory Compliance
Justin opened the first recreational dispensary in Colorado, Dank Dispensary in Denver, ending a long standing prohibition for Cannabis in America. Dank is currently in its 12th year of operations both for Medical Grow and Dispensary, and Recreational Cultivation and Dispensary.
Jones founded Kush Bottles (Colorado), the industry standard for child-safe cannabis packaging in 2014. Kush bottles (KSHB), became a publicly traded company in 2016.
Additionally Justin was a founding partner of Denver Consulting Group, a cannabis consulting agency based in Colorado. DCG focused on emerging markets and wrote successful license applications in Illinois, New York, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Alaska, Oregon, California, and Colorado. DCG was acquired by Medicine Man Technologies (MDCL/SHWZ) in 2017.
Justin was one the first legal cultivators in the country to implement METRC tracking, making him the authoritative source on cannabis cultivation compliance. He was also a founding board member of the Colorado Cannabis Chamber of Commerce.
Last but not least Justin was the Director of Oregon Operations for the International Hemp Exchange, overseeing a one million square foot greenhouse facility and over 500 acres of high CBD hemp fields in Oregon.
Brad Crafton
Lead Consultant
Specialties: Large Scale Cultivation, Extraction, Design and Optimization
Brad has worked with operations from coast-to-coast and several countries to oversee and scale operations to meet market demands. Currently, Brad works with industry leaders to develop and refine new products while creating a total-solutions approach to the cannabis industry.
As a student at the University of Mississippi, Brad studied Anthropology with a particular interest in world-systems theory and the evolution of technology. Brad also attended Humboldt State University, where he learned the modern farming techniques of cultivators, as well as the development and use of biodiesel. Brad learned how to and became successful at developing projects, securing funding, executing pilot scale, and industrializing by aligning with the private sector.
Brad has worked with some of the largest operations in the world, whether it’s a million square foot greenhouse in Canada or a small scale cannabis breeding facility in the United States:
Managed all aspects of site location
Permitting, build-out
Start-up of large-scale extraction & post-processing facilities.
Refinement of CBD from raw hemp
Rick Lowery
Industrial Hemp
Large Scale Hemp Cultivation, Indoor, Greenhouse, Outdoor, Genetics
Rick works with farmers across the country on operation development and management of cannabis facilities. Paying close attention to regional environments, infrastructure, and production goals in the process of mapping out and advising on operations is Rick’s bread and butter.
Rick Lowry is the owner of Cannagrowth Solutions, a cannabis consulting company operating in the marijuana industry focused on creating a positive work environment and improving company culture, while implementing proven growing practices to facilitate profit.
Large scale outdoor hemp cultivation in Colorado
Greenhouse multiplex hemp genetics in Kentucky
Greenhouse genetics in Colorado
Indoor cannabis cultivation
Management
Alex Bertorelli
Extraction Technology
Extraction, CBD Products, Packaging, Labeling, Project Development, Construction
Alex is able to effectively lead and motivate staff members while facilitating positive relationships with a wide range of clients and key business partners. In addition, he is passionate about hemp and familiar with the inner workings of the industry, its consumers, and the abundance of available products on the market.
Alex Bertorelli is a tenured, dedicated, and motivated professional with a strong background in the cannabis space:
Cultivation
Extraction
Branding
Marketing
Consumer Packaged Goods.
White Label
Amongst other things, Alex possesses over 35 years of experience:
Coordinating all aspects of a successful grow operation
Designing, building, and optimizing large-scale extraction and production facilities.
White-labeling products
Tushar Singh
Banking
Specialties: Physical Security, Digital Security, Onboarding banking to the cannabis industry
Over the past 20 years Tushar has specialized in planning and implementation of physical and digital security protocols.
Government Regulations
Transport of Personnel
Transport of Materials
Worked on every continent but Antarctica
Retail sector security
Delivery security protocols
Security and Compliance
An organization’s security and compliance go hand in hand and must be addressed on a regular basis. Changing regulations, circumvention of procedures, and development of new protocols is an ongoing effort. Tushar works with organizations to evaluate their processes, operations, and finances along with their requirements for regulatory compliance. This data is utilized to develop several models necessary to achieve varying levels of security and compliance.
Jacob Sarabia
Design
Specialties: Supply Chain Management, Cultivation Design and Operation, IPM
Jacob was raised in Northern California and has been a part of the cannabis industry from an early age. He has participated in many parts of the marijuana industry from cultivation and processing to distribution of hydroponic supplies. He currently specializes in design, buildout, irrigation design and product procurement.
Jacob has worked with many of the biggest companies in the cannabis industry all over the country and knows the importance of getting supplies on time and for the best price. Having been a grower for most his life he knows what's important in making a commercial grow run.
Industry technology expert
Efficient Design
Cost of Goods Management
Outdoor Cultivation
Indoor Cultivation
Darryl Souza
Retail/Distribution
Financial Assessment, Retail Operations, Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Indoor Cultivation, Outdoor Cultivation
Darryl Souza Attended school in Boston at Wentworth Institute of Technology with a B.S in Engineering Technology.
Darryl is the current Manager of Cultivate, a garden supply retailer with 3 locations in 2 states (Colorado and Oklahoma). Cultivate serves 100's of commercial cannabis and hemp grows all over the country.
Over the years Darryl has helped commercial grows plan out, design and supply their cultivation facilities, from lighting design and irrigation to HVAC and IPM. Having been involved in the industry since before the beginning of legal cannabis I have seen first hand the growth of the industry.
Darryl also has over 15 years experience in cultivation himself, which allows him to see the business from both sides.
Dave Perkins
Cultivation
Specialties: Organic Crop Production, Commercial Indoor, S.O.P.s, IPM
Dave Specializes in crop management, organic cultivation methods, living soil, automated watering systems, plant propagation, pest management and facilities design and layout. Growing for the last 20 years has taught Dave that there will always be some issue or problem that needs to be addressed. Finding the solution can sometimes be difficult but there is always a solution.
He is a Horticulture instructor at Oaksterdam University and a dedicated cultivator of 20 years.
Indoor Cultivation
Outdoor Cultivation
Greenhouse Cultivation
500 Light Indoor Facility Management
Dave has a very unique perspective, having grown in regulated markets in two different states with completely different markets. From these experiences he learned that you always have to be looking ahead and striving to be more efficient.
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