Mere months before Robert Fireman died suddenly in December, the co-founder and former CEO of Massachusetts-based MariMed shook up the cannabis company’s management team and created a succession plan.
Doing so would prove to be prescient.
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After MariMed hired Susan Villare as chief financial officer in May 2022, former CFO and co-founder Jon Levine briefly moved to the role of chief administration officer.
“Then we decided that I would be better off as president of the company, which put me in a position where I can help prepare for any type of succession plan if necessary – not based on Bob’s health,” Levine said in an interview with MJBizDaily, “but based upon the fact that we had to look at all roles in the company and what succession plan would be at all times so that you’re not caught off guard.”
Fireman, who had served as
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