Management Team:
Benjamin Ward
CEO
Benjamin Ward, CEO, is a management professional with significant experience in infrastructure development and capital markets. Ben has founded three public companies in the United States, and holds a BA (honors), MBA and PMP. Ben is a director of Neue Energy Group, a Munich-based energy company; NexGen Energy, a California-based Company; and Niostar Corporation.
John Esteireiro
COO
John Esteireiro, COO, has over 20 years’ experience in capital markets. He served as Managing Director and Head of Institutional Equity Trading at CIBC world markets. John was a founding partner of Genuity Capital Markets and after it was sold to Canaccord in 2010, he was Managing Director and Head of Canadian Institutional Equity Trading. John has a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Toronto.
Aubrey Bradley Jr
Master Grower
Aubrey started his career with Universal Lighting Sales in the year 2004 as a Salesman learning what his clients needed and how the lighting industry worked. In 2006, he launched his own lighting company, The Rae Company, Inc., growing to earn major client projects for JW Marriot/Ritz Carlton, Golden West College Library, Aloft Hotel and Element Hotel. In 2010, Aubrey launched Growlite, Inc., a manufacturing company for horticultural lighting and developed the patented Concealed Vacuum Airflow Technology (CVAT).
Today, Aubrey continues to be the CEO of Growlite and is CCC’s Master Grower.
Nate Nienhuis
Chief Horticulturalist Advisor
Before beginning his career in medical marihuana, Nate attended California State University, Fullerton, for mechanical engineering. He worked as Head Engineer for Growlite, Inc. where he helped design grows for the indoor gardening industry. Nate is an experienced indoor, commercial horticulturalist. His expertise expands beyond cultivation and into cultivation centre design and engineering. As Chief Horticulturalist Advisor, Nate expects to utilize his expansive knowledge and unique skill set to create a state-of-the-art production facility that will remain cutting edge in its technology and efficiency, while maintaining true to the spirit of environmental consciousness and general goodwill with Grow Consulting Group, LLC.
Sheldon Aberman
Executive VP, Technology and Product Development
Sheldon started his professional life as a corporate Insurance Analyst working with Fortune 100 companies. However, in 2003, he decided to transform a long time hobby into a dynamic business and took the brave step of operating an indoor gardening store in Chicago. Sheldon’s venture into the hydroponic industry started as a sales representative and quickly climbed the ladder to US Sales Director for a Gotta Grow Wholesale, where he achieved 800% increase in revenues.
In 2007, Sheldon launched his own distribution company--Amerinada. Together with Quantum Horticulture, Amerinada would come to be recognized as quality brand of horticultural lighting products gaining national acceptance throughout the United Sates and eventually would expand operations to Canada, Europe and Australia following continued domestic and foreign growth.
Other ventures, including Frost Box and Pure Essentials Black Label, and Sheldon’s experience designing thousands of grows across the globe, has earned Sheldon a reputation as one of the world’s foremost experts on cannabis cultivation.
Sheldon has been involved with, managed and designed thousands of grows across the globe. His expertise, hands on approach and product development background has led to top quality grow room design centric on business operations, documentable data and redundancies to ensure maximized up time.
As of May 2014, Sheldon continued to operate Pure Essentials Black Label, and joined Grow Consulting Group; LLC where he extends his expansive knowledge through consulting large scale grows. Sheldon has begun consulting and manufacturing OEM products in the accessory market including vape pens, e-cigarettes, silicon mats/dishes as well as extract tools.
Sheldon continues to influence myriad facets of the rapidly expanding world of cannabis now.
John Carroll
VP Operations
John started in horticulture in a small greenhouse in southern Ontario. By age 18, John was responsible for expanding the operation to a facility that was producing 1.5 million tropical plants per year. As a result of this experience, John became proficient in the structural design, electrical design, heating and cooling, as well as sub trade management.
John holds a Commercial Pilots Licence with an Airline Transport Rating and in 2002 joined Transport Canada and was responsible for Regulatory control over 26 Air Service and Airline companies. There, John gained knowledge of Canada’s Federal Government Regulatory process, which has been invaluable to CCC working within Health Canada’s regulatory framework.
John built and operated green energy companies including Solar and LED lighting, and developed his own business in the greenhouse lighting sector leading to the development of Growlite.
John serves as VP of Operations for Canadian Cannabis Corporation and brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to the changing regulatory environment in Canada.
