Ryan Crane is a finance and strategy leader with deep experience across cannabis, consumer products, and institutional finance. He has built and led high-performing finance organizations, driven operational turnarounds, and executed strategic refinancing and M&A transactions.

Ryan holds an MBA with honors from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a BA from Princeton University, where he graduated magna cum laude. He is also a CFA charterholder.

Ryan is also a professor of cannabis entrepreneurship at Rowan University, and the author of Cannabis: The Gateway Story, a book that explores the evolution of cannabis in America and the plant’s unexpected influence on society, politics, and culture.