Troy Datcher, board chair of Gold Flora Corp. and a prominent Black leader in the marijuana industry, died Feb. 26 after a brief hospitalization.
He was 55.
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Originally from Alabama, Datcher leaves behind a wife and daughter.
Datcher was the “first Black CEO of a major publicly traded cannabis company,” California-based Gold Flora said Friday in a news release announcing his death.
He entered the cannabis industry in late 2021 as CEO of The Parent Co. (TPCO), which was created in 2020 through a special-purpose acquisition company and welcomed Shawn “Jay Z” Carter as chief visionary officer.
Before TPCO, Datcher spent 20 years in high-level and C-suite posts at consumer packaged goods giant Clorox, including serving as general manager of the company’s Kingsford
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