Wes Williams holds a Bachelors of Economics in Marketing from the Wharton School and a Juris Doctorate from the Case Western Reserve University School of Law. Wes has over 4 years of cannabis experience as a corporate strategy consultant in California and then as an executive for a vertically-integrated medical cannabis company. Prior to coming to cannabis, Wes spent over 10 years working for Fortune 500 companies in the financial services and energy sectors, respectively, where he held VP- and director-level roles in legal operations, marketing, and strategic planning. Wes is a Functional Cannabis Champion, a lifelong stutterer, an amateur poet, and the co-founder and CEO of Kinetik Infusions, Inc., a functional infused edibles company launching its first product, Kinetik, in LA in the Fall of 2022.