Ross Righi

• Hi, my name is Ross. For the past eight years, I have been in the cannabis industry in Northern California. I started in 2014 from the bottom, trimming at farms in the Humboldt County area. Over the eight years, I worked in the extraction side of things, and then for the last three years, I had my own farm with a business partner and up to five employees. Over the eight-year period, I was quite successful. But the industry as a whole took a big tumble in 2022. So, I have decided to move on from this industry in search of the next venture.

From the summer of 2010 to the summer of 2013, I worked in the maritime yachting industry out of South Florida. I completed a boat manufacturing program at Cape Fear Community College in Wilmington, NC, in 2009, with the intention of working in local boatyards in the Wilmington, NC, area, but due to the 2008 crash, many local yards were not hiring. So I heard about the yachting industry in South Florida and made the move to pursue. Over a six-year period, I worked my way from deckhand to working with engineers, with full-time employment on three different superyachts. I learned a lot from a keen eye for detail, with a constant upkeep of the exterior of the boat from varnishing, waxing, and teak. Then eventually working in the engine room with engineers and learning all the mechanics of the boat, and the upkeep and maintenance it takes to keep it running. This included oil changes on engines and generators on schedule, changing gaskets, maintaining different systems from fuel filtering systems to water filtration systems, and more.

• Door to Door sales in neighborhoods we were doing work in. interacting with people and educating them on products that we offered to help improve their homes and the benefits it will produce