Ms. Lipsey brings over 25 years of experience, including over 10 years in the cannabis industry, forming and scaling companies in the agricultural, construction, and manufacturing and distribution spaces.
As Chief Operating Officer, Roz will oversee all operations including cultivation, manufacturing, distribution, merchandising, strategic sourcing and wholesale. Prior to joining The Parent Company in 2022 as Executive Vice President of Operations, Roz was President and Managing Partner of a vertically integrated cannabis company in Arizona that sold its assets to MedMen in 2018. This transaction brought her to MedMen, where she served as COO until joining the Parent Company.
Roz began her career in the Foreign Service, responsible for the analysis of the cotton and textile complex in Central Asia. This led to her role as the Director of Business Development for an international, vertically integrated cotton processing and trading company, Anderson Clayton/Volkart.
Roz moved into the President and COO role in the Jokake Companies, a family investment office, where she managed a $30mm farming, residential, and commercial property for strategic divestment with a large private equity fund; built, scaled and successfully divested a calcium carbonate manufacturing company (Superior Marble) serving the building materials industry; diversified and scaled a $100mm commercial contracting firm (Jokake Construction) and successfully transitioned its 1st generation ownership; and co-founded a national chemical company (ProKure 1) focused on commercial remediation companies and cannabis cultivators.
Roz grew up in Pittsburgh, PA and came out west with her husband Jason of 25 years after they married. She holds an undergraduate degree in Economics from Allegheny College and a Master of Business Administration from Kent State University.