Hempgrid Names New Members to Corporate Team By Artie Perry, Hempgrid Managing Member
Hempgrid has named two experienced marketing communications strategists to its corporate partnership team, rounding out a highly talented national crew.
Colleen Troy is a former journalist who has spent decades leading external communications efforts for diverse organizations. Her marcomm agency has earned multiple national and regional awards for strategy and creativity. She holds a Masters in Media Ecology from New York University, and applies her skills as an adjunct professor at the College of Charleston, in Charleston, SC. Colleen has extensive experience in economic development, sits on numerous non-profit boards and dedicates significant energy to addressing diversity and equity across industries.
Working from Hempgrid’s Charleston area office, Colleen’s role will focus both on the company’s public facing activities and communications, and on helping guide our customers to make the most of their launch and growth activities. “Colleen has been in the hemp development space since its launch in the United States,” commented Artie Perry, the firm’s Managing Member. “We are grateful to have someone who can see this industry and its opportunities from so many angles while we help empower others.”
Thomas Glenn has spent his career solving complex global problems with private and public sector clients in over 20 countries. He formerly worked for IBM as a Client Solutions Executive and senior managing consultant, where he designed and delivered transformational programs for diverse clients. Thomas has worked in various client groups, and brings special experience in project interface with the United States Departments of Defense and Homeland Security, as well as China Customs Authority and the Defense Ministry of Kenya. He is also an entrepreneur with multiple start up experiences, who began his career as an adjunct professor at The Citadel Military College of South Carolina.
His role with Hempgrid combines a focus on the multi-national marketing needs of the company’s clients and shaping organizations’ go-to-market strategies, projects, and collaborative partnerships. “We cannot say enough about the tenacity with which Thomas addresses global client solutions,” offered Perry. “His dedication to teamwork, and tireless commitment to helping clients realize their full potential is inspiring to all.”
Hempgrid, LLC, a Hemp Alliance Group company, is a hemp industry acceleration services firm. Its consortium of advisors and operators are highly experienced, strategic business, industry planning and problem-solving executives who are applying their expertise in combining analytics, innovation and practical success methods to the rapidly growing hemp industry. Focused primarily on hemp related projects for investors, business owners and governments, the firm’s multi-disciplined team represents the fields of science, technology, manufacturing, sustainability, cyber security, and entrepreneurship. Hempgrid is uniquely suited to advise and directly assist early and mid-stage hemp interests in reduce-time-market so that they can scale faster than ever before against the unknown and competing forces. www.Hempgrid.com
