For over 20 years, Jeff Cole has focused on marketing and brand building in major media channels, sustainability and natural products, with a focus on the top 25 US markets. He is a Colorado native who has worked in natural products in the Denver/Boulder area since 2013, where he served as advertising director and senior manager for Boulder Weekly, Best of Boulder and Boulderganic, the leading sustainability magazine serving the Boulder natural product community. Jeff Cole is the founder of US Hemp Brokerage, which he established in order to become the leading professional brokerage firm in the domestic hemp markets. 

Jeff’s experiences have served many brands will such as Pure Kind Botanicals, Lucky’s Market CBD products, Alfalfa’s Market CBD Products, Restorative Botanicals, and many more.  Collectively, Jeff helped create, manage and/or operate 63 hemp brands through his experiences in private label program management.

The host of this episode is Ari Sherman, Co-founder of Evo Hemp.