About Us
Cedric Anderson
Mr. Anderson is the founder and Chairman of the Board of Director of Feeding Uniting and Empowering Learning (FUEL) headquartered in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. This non-profit has provided after-school learning programs and meals for at-risk children. He also co-owned two real-estate development companies which focused on community reinvestments, urban housing, and training. Mr. Anderson is a native of Birmingham Alabama and is a graduate of the University of Alabama at Birmingham with degree in Computer Information Systems and Business. He spent 14 years as a systems development executive and eight years in executive sales in the pharmaceutical industry, working for a Fortune 50 company. His primary work locations have been Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Hattiesburg, Mississippi and Birmingham, Alabama. Mr. Anderson is founding member of the Board of Directors for the Mississippi Minority Cannabis Alliance.
Tim Lyons
Tim Lyons leverages over 30 years in the engineering of enterprise architecture, software, mobile application, cloud-based deployment and consumer-lead generation. Tim brings in-depth technology leadership from holding senior engineering and technology officer positions at companies that include Take2L Enterprise, GreenWave Systems, Cisco, Getlower.com, AltaVista and Compaq. Tim provides software as well as mechanical engineering leadership and know-how to ensure that the company’s in-field and in-house teams, customers and partners can leverage and maximize the value of products, services and external initiatives. Tim graduated from the University of South Dakota with a Bachelor of Science. Tim has been awarded 12 United States Patents in his Engineering career. Tim served in the US Army in the 2nd Ranger Battalion as NCO and in the 7th Infantry Division (Light) as a Commissioned Officer. Multiple overseas deployments including Operation “Just Cause” in Panama in 1989.
Maria “Teresa” Teran-Grossnicklaus
Teresa has three years of owning and operating a cannabis grow. She has twenty years of business management and team building. Her involvement politically stems back eight years as she began with activism.
Research has been a strong focus as she developed relationships with multiple researchers. Her terpene focused research allowed her to learn basic processing methods using steam distillation and ethanol extraction. The focus being targeted absorption and increased bioavailability. As a patient with genetic liver disease and being a pain patient, she was able to test bioavailability of a hydrophobic drug as well as effectiveness. Her goal is to develop new methods to tackle pain without creating toxicity. Her research extends beyond cannabis and into other plant research.
Otto Joseph Reimer
Otto is the founder of Crop Cynce which has allowed him to design, and build grows providing total package options.
Otto is a 4th generation farmer that has revolutionized growing space efficiency and environmental controls. His expertise is facility management, facility design and output. Otto is a Colorado State University graduate with a Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Business & Crop Production. Otto has grown, propagated and germinated thousands of different varieties of woody to herbaceous seedlings/cuttings. He has gathered ten years of cannabis case studies in the following applications, VPD, environment, uMOL/PPFD Tolerance/ intolerance, CO2 enrichment levels, plant biology/physiology harvesting, curing, trimming and extraction methods. He has also collected five years of case studies in nutrition formulations development and drain to waste COCO systems.