OUR TEAM
Gateway Proven Strategies boasts a broad network of legal and industry experts from around the world, allowing us to help businesses and individuals anywhere, in any field.
Our Executive Team
Bob Hoban
President & Co-Founder
Bob Hoban sits at the center of the world’s largest commercial cannabis industry network; a cannabis industry ecosystem that he has painstakingly cultivated since 2008.
Chris Day
Chief Executive Officer
A people-driven leader, Chris Day is the Chief Executive Officer for Gateway Proven Strategies. He is also the co-founder of Project Evolve, a strategic marketing think tank and consultancy, as well as the Global Cannabis Network Collective, an elite network for business professionals building and transforming the international cannabis trade. He brings decades of advertising and experiential marketing success coupled with deep entrepreneurial drive for building high growth opportunities.
Charles Feldmann
Co-Founder & Corporate General Counsel
Charles Feldmann, Esq., serves as a Trusted Adviser for the cannabis industry’s largest and most profitable businesses on an international scale. He assists his legal and consulting clients in all of their corporate operations, licensing, intellectual property, joint venture, transaction documentation…
Deanna Callahan
Chief Operating Officer
With nearly a decade of legal cannabis industry experience, Deanna has guided the development of businesses in every vertical of the regulated cannabis supply chain, leveraging her strategic operational expertise to optimize efficiencies, implement complaint procedures to ultimately improve the client’s bottom line…
Jill Reddish
Chief Marketing Officer
A true word smith, Jill Reddish is the Chief Marketing Officer at Gateway Proven Strategies. She is the co-founder of the marketing strategy think-tank Project Evolve, and the Global Cannabis Network Collective, an elite network for business professionals building and transforming the international cannabis trade.
Tom Moore
Chief Financial Officer
Prior to serving as CFO for Gateway Proven Strategies, Tom Moore was a Financial Advisor with Morgan Stanley Wealth Management. He has over 30 years of professional experience, with 27 of those years in the investment business.
Our Core Team
Dani Staley
Director of Client Services
Danielle Staley serves as the Director of Client Services for GPS where she ensures all clients receive a premium white-glove service experience.
Blake Patterson
Director of Business Development
Blake is a strategic visionary and a dynamic leader with 20+ years of retail, Consumer Packaged Goods, and business development experience. At Time Warner, he managed the sales, marketing, and distribution of over $1.8 billion in annual product sales. In 2018, he created the first and largest CBD sales, marketing and distribution company that introduced the category to 90% of the US market retailers in every class of trade.
Bill Abbott
Principal Consultant
Bill Abbott served in the U.S. Army as a. N.B.C. (Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical) Specialist in the Chemical Corp. Leveraging his experience with fine-tooled machinery and manufacturing, he transitioned into cannabis and hemp, building and engineering from conception to reality the first mobile extraction for hemp and cannabis in the country.
Jeff Frazier
Consultant
Jeff Frazier advises individuals and companies doing business in Latin America, primarily Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Chile, and Argentina.
Stan Fischer
Security & Corporate Intelligence Officer
Stanton Fischer joins Franklin Global, Inc. as Senior Vice President following a 20-year career in the FBI. His FBI career started in Los Angeles where he was assigned to national security matters, including espionage, counterintelligence and counter-proliferation investigations.
Tian Scherer
Project Manager
An integral part of the California Cannabis industry for nearly a decade, a veteran retail operations expert, and renowned writer, Tian has made quite an impact on the cannabis industry.
Eric Singular
Project Manager/ Hemp Subject Matter Expert
Eric’s path into the hemp industry began in the agricultural sector, heading up marketing for the leading North American provider of AOSCA certified hemp seed, Bija Hemp. Eric brings a unique perspective to the entire industrial hemp supply chain.
Ashley Grace
Marketing Subject Matter Expert
Ashley Grace is a consumer packaged goods industry veteran who has worked with most of the top Food and Beverage companies at some point, has been a part of 4 David Ogilvy Award winning (Campbell Soup, Pepperidge Farm, Brown Forman, Career Education), was recognized for Innovation Leadership by PepsiCo, and spoke twice at Nestle’s Global Digital Marketing Summit.
Todd Wheeler
Management Consultant
For over two decades Todd has made companies more human. He and his company Management Insight create Cultures of Connection based on acknowledgment and appreciation, he simply makes companies run better, have more fun and be more profitable.
Halston Puchek
Marketing and Business Development
Halston Puchek became a pioneer in Colorado’s medical marijuana industry since its formation in 2009, sitting on local and national panels, hosting political events, providing locations for industry networking gatherings, advocating, and volunteering; She also operated one of the first vertically integrated, licensed medical marijuana dispensaries in Boulder, Colorado.
Derek Porter
Securities Subject Matter Expert
Derek Porter is a Serial Entrepreneur, U.S. Veteran, Security Marketing Expert, and Investor in the Cannabis/Hemp Industries. He is an investor and partner with Gateway Proven Strategies, specializing in his security expertise as well as his industry knowledge to help grow GPS globally…
Andrew Ellis
Operations Lead
Andrew Ellis is an established operations leader with an extensive work history assisting both public and private sector clients to navigate strategic, regulatory, and operational challenges. He has led projects for clients in highly regulated industries including cannabis, alcohol, energy, finance, healthcare, and transportation.