Continuing to blaze a new trail in culture, education, and industry, Beard Bros Media calls upon today’s most authentically outspoken thought leaders to collaborate in a new series of LinkedIn Live and YouTube programming covering the full spectrum of cannabis news.
Joining this effort, and bringing decades of cannabis advocacy to the table, is Rachel Wright, a Managing Partner and Certified Public Accountant with 420CPA, a strategic tax and financial advisory firm based in southern CA with additional locations in Manhattan, NY and overseas in Nice, France.
Rachel will be hosting Financing Your Future: Insights From A Fractional CFO and the first episode on May 10th at 10am PST/1pm EST features an all-star lineup of Beau Whitney, Peter Su, and Will Bowden.” If you would like to attend, you can RSVP for the first episode HERE.
With a finger firmly on the pulse of the global cannabis movement, Wright guides clients through all stages of successful business building by providing priceless consulting and planning services from the pre-startup stage, continuing with managed growth, and blooming into healthy expansion or a lucrative exit.
Along with Wright’s upcoming coverage with Beard Bros Media, you can also find her bylines in publications like the LA Daily Journal, Marijuana Venture, Bloomberg Tax, and others. With deep roots in the realm of financial planning and tax strategy, Wright’s insights have also seen the spotlight at cannabis conferences both here in the U.S. and abroad.
420CPA provides accounting, tax, and consulting to small to medium sized cannabis and hemp companies along the vertical and in varying stages of maturity in their business growth. Rachel Wright CPA and her team guide founders, their management team, investors, and adjacent professionals to successfully navigate the complexities of the tax landscape and to achieve their financial objectives.
Wright’s influence internationally is backed by a Masters degree in Taxation and a Masters Certification in International Taxation and Estates and Trusts. Pair these credentials with a board position with the International Cannabis Bar Association, all to benefit clients looking to startup or expand overseas.
Additionally, Wright serves on the board of the Cannabis Chamber of Commerce and International Committee of the International Cannabis Bar Associations two more influential platforms that allow her to advocate on behalf of legacy operators and well-intentioned up-and-comers alike.
With over 15 years of experience as a financial guide and strategist – spanning not only cannabis, but real estate, fashion, and manufacturing sectors as well – Wright is a trusted ally for her clients, assisting them with everything from recovering from heavy-handed law enforcement raids back in the day, to profit optimization and multistate and global expansion for licensed operators in today’s market.
Her first cannabis client came from an online ad and paid in cash – a throwback to the “good ol’ days” that we can certainly relate to here at Beard Bros Pharms.
Though she personally left her cannabis consumption back in her teenage years, it was nearly three decades ago that Rachel Wright randomly met Jack Herer on the Venice Beach boardwalk, a chance encounter that led to Wright playing a role in helping to craft the language that would eventually get medical cannabis on the ballot in Cali, as well as sparking a lifetime of advocacy for the plant and the people at its roots.
Wright realizes that although various operator and license types certainly face some unique challenges specific to their sector, all of us from “plant touching” to “picks and shovels” must navigate many of the same minefields when it comes to regulations and restrictions put in place by local, state, and federal governments.
With potential federal rescheduling looming, a cutthroat level of consolidation is almost sure to come from coast to coast. Wright aims to keep her clients ahead of that curve and is encouraging like-minded legacy operators and other good players to move from a model of competition to “co-op”-etition as a show of strength against the corporate raiders currently preparing to cash in on cannabis.
These topics and many more will be covered in full detail by Wright in her upcoming Beard Bros Media installments where she plans to bring in guests ranging from fellow financial gurus lighting the way like her, to hard-working weed farmers who have their hands in the soil each day and deserve a seat at the legalization table.
The Beard Bros Media Network invites you to tune in to our new LinkedinLive series featuring Rachel Wright, CPA, MST and more highly accomplished hosts at the links below.
