Jared Stanley
The passing of the 2018 Farm Bill allowed struggling American farmers to access a valuable cash crop for the first time in 80+ years—since its prohibition—and removed it from the list of DEA controlled substances: all mighty hemp.
At the center of the great rebirth of the American hemp industry is a brilliant albeit unassuming operations guy overseeing a group of some of the country’s most talented hemp farmers, scientists, and engineers. He is a driving force behind world’s most successful hemp CBD brand.
Jared Stanley is Chief Operating Officer of Charlotte’s Web, the company founded by Jared and his six brothers. The Stanley brothers started the pioneering hemp genetics company with a $30K loan and now, Charlotte’s Web is a publicly traded company.
As experts are looking at hemp to transform our everyday, Jared is paving the way for agricultural innovation in a health and wellness hemp movement that has the potential to change life as we know it. As a result of the 2014 hemp pilot program, Jared planted the first US hemp crop circle since prohibition, and just a few short years later scaled Charlotte’s Web operations to production levels that have exceeded the entire US import market.
As some have noted, Jared is the single most valuable operator in the hemp and cannabis industry. He's a self-taught, boot-strap entrepreneur who saw an opportunity to use the land to earn a living—and in the process give back to those in need, and the environment. It's Jared's inventiveness, entrepreneurial spirit and vision for a different tomorrow that created an entire industry.
As COO, Jared oversees product innovation, R&D and Quality, which is a hallmark of the brand known for pioneering and establishing the entire CBD market.
Jared’s processes have helped to inject approximately $12 million into Charlotte’s Web family farm partnerships in Kentucky and Oregon as well as supporting $3M in jobs in Eastern Colorado in 2018. Jared hopes the US will focus on hemp as a major crop because it’s environmentally friendly and has countless uses. The processes he’s created have the potential to shape our landscape over the next decades.
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