I’ve Sat Where You’re Sitting.
Financial Leadership for California Cannabis Operators — From Someone Who's Built and Run Dispensaries.
Your Fractional Controller Has Been in the Room.
Most financial professionals understand cannabis from the outside. I understand it because I helped build it — from the inside.
I started in cannabis in 2017 as a General Manager in Santa Ana, where I led a dispensary through one of the most complex transitions in the industry's history: from the collective model to the state and local licensing framework that California cannabis businesses operate under today. That experience — navigating regulatory change while keeping a business running — shaped how I think about financial operations.
From there, I went on to launch two additional licensed dispensaries — the first in Long Beach, the second in Port Hueneme, where I built out an entire retail operation from a strip mall shell, coordinating with the local police department (the local licensing authority) on everything from inventory cage wire mesh specifications to bullet-resistant reception window requirements to signage parameters. I then consulted on the opening of a vertically integrated cannabis operation in San Bernardino.
Today, I hold a controller-level role in hydrogen and clean energy manufacturing — bringing the same financial rigor I developed in cannabis to one of the most operationally complex industries in the country.
I started Ledger & Code to bring that combination of operational and financial experience directly to cannabis operators in California who need more than a bookkeeper — and can't yet justify a full-time hire.