Engager

Alternative Wellness Lifestyle Brand & Product Accelerator Lab
We build new plant medicine and wellness brands, products and businesses, and grow existing ones.

We are a global team of battle-tested entrepreneurs, makers and marketers accelerating growth of brands in the alternative health and wellness category.  

We spot emerging trends, identify new growth opportunities, bring new solutions to market, and modernize the way that alternative wellness businesses engage with consumers via entertainment, experiential marketing, lifestyle marketing and emerging technologies.

The team has deep expertise in taking brands from pre-seed or seed stage to series B and beyond.  Deep experience with lifestyle marketing in music, gaming, podcasting, film, TV, cannabis, beverage and technology. 

Team has collectively accomplished the following:

$1BN + in Revenues Generated
60+ Brands Built
$100 million+ Funds Raised

Engager Global is a brand innovation and venture-building studio that helps alternative wellness companies accelerate growth and innovation. We employ a team of entrepreneurs, creators, and marketers to work alongside clients in spotting emerging trends, identifying new growth opportunities, and bringing new solutions to market. Our approach optimizes the agility of startups by facilitating rapid innovation and leveraging influencers of all levels to grow brand equity as well as revenues on a global basis.

Optimized For the Following Business Categories:

- Nootropics
- Adaptogens
- Functional Mushrooms
- Kratom
- Kanna
- Psychedelics
- Cannabis
- Alternative Wellness Therapies
- Alternative Wellness Retreats
- Biohacking products and services

Founder and Chief Revenue Officer

PLANT Entrepreneurial Institute

- Building a global online education platform specializing in courses for cannabis, psychedelic, and plant medicine businesses.
- Leading a team of experienced operators to create and deliver high-quality courses taught by industry professionals with real-world experience.
- Successfully launched the flagship course, the Cannabis Brand Accelerator, as part of the Cannapreneur Pocket MBA program, catering to the growing demand in the cannabis industry.
- In collaboration with Grupo Education in Puebla, Mexico, to ensure smooth functioning and growth of the platform.

Founder

Heavy Brands

- Owning and operating the Heavy Grass brand: cannabis flower products in California.
- Contribute to the development of innovative cannabis products, including small-batch, top-shelf cannabis and extract-infused prerolls, that cater to the rebellious and counterculture-loving metal community.

Board Member/Co-Founder

Bee-Nails, LLC

Board Of Advisors

Engager Brands

Engager Brands builds, owns and operates a portfolio of authentic cannabis brands targeting underserved demographics. We create, market and license our brands starting in California and then taking them throughout the world.

Chief Executive Officer and Founder

PROHBTD Media

PRØHBTD Media was a global consumer goods and marketing company with a mission to lead cannabis from the black market to the supermarket. As PRØHBTD we built the largest catalog of broadcast quality cannabis video content, the largest cannabis multi-platform network and leading cannabis agency with 60+ brand projects. 

Our portfolio included lifestyle and wellness brands across hemp, CBD and THC including flagship icon PRØHBTD, Hempathy, Ceeby Dee’s, Hot Nife, The Patch Co., and Heavy Grass. We also counted exclusive partnerships in our arsenal including Global Licensing Expo, Advertising Week, Beanstalk Licensing Agency, and Postmedia.

www.prohbtdmedia.com

Chief Business Officer, COO and Founder

Soteria Intelligence

Soteria Intelligence is a social media threat assessment company that provides monitoring and consulting services to individuals and organizations around the world.

Advisor

Engager Digital

Engager Digital helps content providers grow and retain their audiences.  They also provide business development, sales strategy and digital marketing services.  A primary focus is on growing the overall businesses of media companies.  Engager also serves as a new business incubator.  

Client services include:

* Online video, influencer marketing and shopper engagement programs.
* Digital media strategy/business development 
* Online/mobile/social solutions for brands, agencies, and digital businesses.
* Application and site development strategy


Clients & Partners (Past and Present): Audible, St Martins Press, Simon & Schuster, Oyster, Mediakix, Prodege, Cakeworks, Juntobox Films, Creative Money Works, Scratch Music Group, Songbird, Lodgenet, I VOTE, Platinum Edge, Screenpush, Stauffer.

Creative Money Works

Creative Money Works' mission is to help meet the needs of low income children, work to create a better financial future for them and conduct research to improve financial literacy content for children.

Board of Advisors

Dather

Dather is a social media platform for event sponsors and organizers. Dather is now part of broader offering called Event Hub which offers white labeled end-to-end digital services and technology solutions for events.  The suite of solutions raise awareness pre event, engages audiences during the event, and provides a post event activation platform along with analytics.  

Dather also represents other cutting edge digital media services and technologies including a turnkey paid media solution that provides access to a highly engaged and targeted audience of 7.5M+ users on web and mobile.

Clients include: Samsung/AT&T Glee Live Tour, Jagermeister Music Tour, Remy Cointreau, John Lennon Educational Tour, Juntobox Films, Rihanna

Kieve is the co-founder of Dather and serves as the lead on all business development, sales, operations, product development and fundraising efforts.  He is also a Founder in the Founder Institute.

Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder

Do you want to unlock untapped revenue for your alernative wellness business or brand?
Are you generating over $1 million annually?
Do you want to 5-10x that over the next 3-5 years?
 
I run Engager, a growth accelerator program for alternative wellness businesses.  We partner with companies to scale their businesses exponentially and cost effectively.

Engager is optimized to help the following business categories: 

Nootropics
Adaptogens
Functional Mushrooms
Kratom
Kanna
Psychedelics
Cannabis
Alternative Wellness Therapies
Alternative Wellness Retreats
Biohacking products and services

After a collective 70+ years of building brands and businesses, our team at Engager is ready to leverage everything we've learned about scaling a company, its sales, and its funding.

We have collectively generated over $1 billion in revenues across cannabis, beverages, music, media, tech, and fashion.   We have built over 60 brands.

We can grow your current brand or partner with you to build you a new one.

Interested in learning more?

DM me or set up a Discovery Call via the link in my headline.

Kieve Huffman

C4 USA

*Built and sustained new and existing relationships. 
*Orchestrated sales with buyers, compliance and accounting from start to finish. 
*Stayed consistently aware of current market trends.
*Consistent outreach to potential buyers. 
*Created sales operations SOPs
*Worked collaboratively with all departments.

Onsite Sales Coordinator 

Paybotic Financial

➢	Conducted meetings with potential clients pulling from lists in CRM daily to discover business needs. 
➢	Provided potential clients with an overview of banking and referring other services in the ecosystem Accounting/Bookkeeping, Insurance and payment processing. 
➢	Addressed daily tasks set in CRM.
➢	Made calls and sent emails to clients daily with offering of banking and overall ecosystem.
➢	Worked with closely with sister companies providing referrals and follow ups.

Associate Banker

Consulting services/ 2 management contracts 

 Conducted audits to identify operational bottlenecks in infrastructure, HR, staffing, and
purchasing.
 Advised on raising revenue by 25-30% and decreasing losses by 35-40%.
 Improved budgeting by controlling and rectifying dead payroll and money flow.
 Reviewed compliance practices and enhanced processes.
 Monitored sales, optimized promotions, managed inventory, and built vendor relationships to
increase sales by 20% and reduce discounts by 30%.
Ca Sales

Consultant

Halo Collective Inc.

➢	Implemented new SOP’s, process improvement, established compliance, and recruited a staff of 36 FTE’s.
➢	Acted as accounts payable and receivable manager for facility/store’s daily take, cash reconciliation, payments, taxes, and cash pickup drops. Daily procurement for all facility needs.
➢	Coordinated the intake of biomass and provided logistics support for outgoing shipments while
compiling data logs fro executives.
➢	Commanded a 3 shift, multiple layered, manufacturing facility that produced an average of 11
liters of distillate and extracted 450 pounds of biomass daily.

Facility/Production Manager

➢	Administered multiple modifications for city licensing; including ownership changes with both the city and state government.
➢	Protected all compliance regulations and issues so compliance was never compromised.
➢	Conducted due diligence meetings with brands that were looking to get acquired for CEO and president.
➢	Located problems in the company's supply chain through quality control checks.
➢	Worked with all cross functional departments to achieve optimal success with data analysis.

Business Operations Manager

➢	Recruited a sales team of 7 FTE’s, by hosting weekly calls and completing “ride-a-long’s” that assisted with
relationship building and taught CRM for customer satisfaction.
➢	Managed operations, finance, HR, third-party distribution, sales reporting, and marketing  departments.
➢	Conducted field research for new product lines, using analytic skills with data analytics and assisted on product launches.
➢	Achieved 5 - 10% sales quarterly growth while increasing store openings by 25 - 30% within 6 months.
➢	Contained control during retail storefront relationship development with buyers/owners.

Californa Inside Sales Director

Mother Earths Farmacy (now Desert Kush) 

	Responsible for locating available property for purchase in Cannabis zoned area
	Worked closely with city staff to learn, comply and understand process, in addition to obtaining and providing all required documents and information to receive licenses and permits for dispensary
	Secured licensed architect with Cannabis experience and  construction documents as required for property and tenant improvements
	Manage, coordinate all aspects of the project from design, construction, security, POS system and IT services
	Implemented management team, job descriptions, products and day to day operations

Contracted Project Manager

Indus Holdings (now Lowells Farms Inc.) 

	Responsible for locating potential dispensary customers and introduce the Indus portfolio of products
	Provided ongoing education to dispensaries on the benefits and uses of the various medicinal products available
	Called on existing as well as new customers and processed orders received
	Worked industry events with various dispensaries and Indus brands
	Promoted advocacy of the Cannabis industry and its many proven medical uses and benefits
	Strived for continued customer satisfaction with emphasis on obtaining business referrals and relationships

Sales Account Manager

Fruit Box Inc. 

•	Responsible for the day to day operation of the corporation
• Coordinated with managers from each department regarding business activities and or issues
• Processed payroll, taxes and various other compliance items
• Created structure and a teamwork environment within each department
•	Provided correspondence between property owners, clients, grows, dispensaries, events and attorney’s
• Provided weekly, monthly and quarterly reports to ownership

General Manager Of Corporation

Chase

• Built business and personal revenue and deposit growth. 
•	Established and retained banking client relationships for multiple generations and businesses. 
•	Responsible to obtain all required compliant documentation for businesses and special accounts.
•	Knowledgeable in fraud claims, opening and saving accounts, trusts, prospecting and setting appointments for branch partners
•	Remained up to date on all banking compliance. Bank Secrecy Act, Check 21 etc. 
• Used tools Microsoft Word ,Outlook and Exel
•	Volunteer for company sponsored community events or public speaking when available
• Held California Notary  Commission through National Notary Association for multiple years.

Personal/Business Banker

I'm a 12yr business/personal banker with the last 11 yrs in multiple layers of the Ca Cannabis industry. 
With Washington Mutual in 1999 I started as a teller, ATM & vault custodian advancing to personal banker leading into business banker. I have experience with banking compliance, processes, cash handling that included full responsibility of ordering cash for all branch needs.
The last 11 yrs I have had the ability to gain knowledge and experience in multiple layers of the CA Cannabis industry. Most endeavors have been start ups. As a GM for Fruit Box inc. I expanded THC and non THC retail stores, implemented delivery,  established small sales 
distribution along with working with management overseeing indoor and outdoor cultivation.
  Established the first dispensary accounts for Indus holdings in the IE with one of the 1st sophisticated portfolios of multiple brands to offer cannabis retailers.
  Project managed/Established dispensary from start to finish including property purchase, TI, Orchestrated all local government relations to obtain all required licencing & permits, Menu, processes, management staff etc. 
  Managed and was fully responsible for a new Manufacturing Type 7 lab for MSO, 37 FTE, 24/7, producing concentrates. 
   Ca Sales Director for a cannabis brand, 8 FTE, Revenue increases by 10% month over month with 1 SKU store increase by 30%. Took part in New product development, distribution relationship with NABIS, continued market expansion. 
  Cannabis retail consulting including a couple of store management contracts for process, HR, and sales improvements. Wholesale bulk flower sales. 
   Nationwide cannabis banking sales working with cross functional teams along with Eco system of ancillary cannabis services. Tools that were used were Microsoft suite and Hubspot.
  Wholesale bulk flower coordinator, large start up cultivation, increased relationships, sales and outreach. 
   If you made it this far I thank you for taking the time to take a peak of the seasoned skilled professional Im driven to be. If you of someone you know is in need please keep me in mind!!

Gretta  Avila

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