Urban-gro, Inc. Names Richard Akright as Chief Financial Officer
December 05, 2019 at 06:04 am
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urban-gro, Inc. announced the appointment of Richard (Dick) Akright as its Chief Financial Officer, effective December 1, 2019. Mr. Akright had been serving as the Company's Interim CFO since August 12, 2019. Mr. Akright was previously the company's interim CFO since August 6, 2019. Richard (Dick) A. Akright, age 60, was appointed as the company's Interim Chief Financial Officer in August 2019. On December 1, 2019, the company removed the "Interim" nature of his relationship with the company. From August 2018 to the present, Mr. Akright has been a director with Akright Group International LLC, Aurora, CO, where he performed financial consulting services for small and mid-sized businesses. From May through July 2018 he was unemployed. From July 2013 through May 2018 he was Chief Financial Officer for LABS, Inc., Centennial, CO. Mr. Akright has more than 20 years of executive leadership and Board Director experience across a variety of industries and ownership structures. He has served as Chief Financial Officer of companies owned by private equity investors and in the top financial position of corporate divisions of publicly traded companies.
urban-gro, Inc. is an integrated professional services and design-build firm. The Company offers value-added architectural, engineering, and construction management solutions to the Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA), industrial, healthcare, and other commercial sectors. It creates indoor cultivation facilities to grow specialty crops, including cannabis as well as produce such as leafy greens, vegetables, herbs and berries. It provides its clients with design-build service offerings that include architectural, interior, and engineering design, construction and construction management, as well as services for the operational stages of the facility. The Company's pre-construction services include providing a forecast summary of what it takes to get a high-performance facility built, giving initial indication and detailed analysis of budget, timeline/schedule, and potential large decision impacts, including value analysis and value engineering options.
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