Kim Rivers currently serves as chief executive officer of Trulieve Cannabis Corp., a vertically-integrated "seed-to-sale" operation based in Florida. Rivers joined Trulieve at its inception and has been the key driver for the Company’s customer-centric vision, strong growth, strategic expansion, and industry-leading profitability. Ms. Rivers oversees every activity involved with the cannabis process from seed to sale to ensure quality, operational integrity and financial success. Prior to Trulieve, Ms. Rivers spent several years in private practice as a lawyer where she specialized in mergers, acquisitions, and securities for multi-million dollar companies and has run a number of successful businesses from real estate to finance. Her experience has been instrumental in building Trulieve’s market leading position in its home state of Florida and provides the solid foundation on which to execute on growth and expansion initiatives as a multi-state operator.
Ms. Rivers also plays an active role in her community in addition to serving on numerous charitable boards. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Multinational Business and Political Science from Florida State University, where she also served as FSU’s student body President, and her Juris Doctorate from the University of Florida.
Jason Pernell
Chief Information Officer
18 years entrepreneurial background. Experienced medical cannabis business owner in California and Oregon. For the past decade, owned and operated successful engineering consulting firms. MBA from Florida State University. Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering.
Valda Coryat
Chief Marketing Officer
Ms. Coryat brings with her a unique blend of consumer-packaged goods and agricultural marketing leadership. Through her U.S., global and regional brand building experiences, she has delivered award winning innovation and consumer inspired multi-media campaigns. Ms. Coryat has leveraged strategy, analytics and creativity to drive profitable brand growth at companies such as Colgate-Palmolive, Avon and Heineken. Prior to joining Trulieve, Ms. Coryat led the National Mango Board’s Marketing across the consumer, retail and foodservice verticals. She received her B.A. from Duke University and MBA from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business.
After a long career in New York City, Ms. Coryat now calls Florida home as it shares much of what she cherishes from her family's origin in the Caribbean.
Kyle Landrum
Chief Production Officer
14 years of experience in management and multi-state operations. Mr. Landrum graduated from the University of Florida with a Bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Economics with a minor in Entrepreneurship and a Master’s degree in Agricultural Education and Leadership.
Tim Morey
Chief Sales Officer
20 years of Retail leadership and Operations experience holding the roles of Region VP with Foot Locker and Sr. Operations Director with the Finish Line. He has achieved awards for Region of the Year, District Team of the year, Multiple Coach and Leadership awards throughout his career.
Mr. Morey’s integral role within the Company’s business strategy and Dispensary roll out have helped lead the company to deliver on our strategic plan in 2019.
Eric Powers
General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
20 years of broad legal experience with a background in corporate and tax law, both in-house and private practice. Served as vice president and corporate secretary for a >$1 billion revenue publicly traded insurance industry company. Bachelor’s degree from Auburn University, Juris Doctorate from the University of Alabama, LLM from New York University
15 years experience providing human resources management in technology companies and the supermarket/food retail industry. Steven has a BA from North Carolina State University and a certification in Human Resources Management from Duke University.
20 years experience sales, operations and marketing roles. As Director of Wholesale for Trulieve, Chris leads the strategy development as well as the implementation and execution of Trulieve’s national wholesale plan. Chris brings vast experience to this role with an impressive track record in building strategy and delivering results across national wholesalers and strategic customers. Prior to joining Trulieve, Chris spent 8 years with Kellogg’s and +10 years with PepsiCo in various cross-functional leadership positions in. Chris is a native of Maryland where he received his BS from Towson University and an MBA from Loyola University of Maryland.
20 years of broad investor relations and communications experience in the technology, biotechnology and venture capital industries. Solid track record of investor relations and corporate communications leadership roles. Lynn’s role is to provide key insight, best practices, and expertise to ensure a high level of investor outreach and broaden market awareness through thought leadership programs. Lynn served on the board of directors for NIRIs Boston Chapter and is a current member of both the Boston and Florida chapters of NIRI National in the US.
