Doug Francis Age: 38 Company: Weedmaps Position: CEO Back in 2007 he co-founded Marijuana Medicine Evaluation Centers, a management system to help doctors care for medical marijuana patients. About that same time he met Weedmaps founder Justin Hartfield, and the two entrepreneurs hit it off. “We helped each other with our startups and eventually merged the companies,” Francis says. In February, Francis replaced Hartfield as CEO, and Hartfield took over as board chairman for the Weedmaps family of companies. Francis, who comes from a financial services and business development background, says he’s looking forward to expanding the company’s educational offerings with more information about terpenes and other aspects of cannabis. “Terpenes are included in the ‘entourage effect’ and affect how marijuana makes you feel,” Francis says. “We are launching a menu enhancement that will allow users to dive much deeper into this data to make more informed buying decisions.”
Doug Francis
Doug Francis, who recently took over as Weedmaps CEO, has a long history in the marijuana industry.