Tahira Rehmatullah

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Biography

Ms. Tahira Rehmatullah is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at Commons. She serves as a Partner at Highlands Venture Partners. She serves as an Advisor at Tabula Rasa Ventures. She served as a Board Member at Akerna. She served as an Advisor at Treehouse Global Ventures. She served as a Board Advisor and Strategic Partner at Mendi. She has served as a director since the consummation of our Business Combination on June 17, 2019. Since October 2018, before the Business Combination and until the consummation of the Business Combination in June 2019, she has served as Vice President and Treasurer. From September 2017 to June 2019, she was the chief financial officer of MTech Acquisitions Inc. Since 2016, she has also been a managing director of Hypur Ventures, where she is responsible for portfolio company management as well as investment sourcing and execution. Since June 2017, she has served as a director of Dope Media, a cannabis media company and portfolio company of Hypur Ventures. Before joining Hypur Ventures, from 2014 to 2016, she served as the general manager of Marley Natural, a cannabis brand based on the life and legacy of Bob Marley, where she was responsible for the brand launch as well as managing its day-to-day operations. From 2014 to 2016, she served as an investment manager at Privateer Holdings, a private equity firm with investments in the legal cannabis industry. Before her activities in the cannabis industry, from 2011 to 2012, she was a portfolio manager at City First Enterprises, or CFE, where she was responsible for underwriting, structuring, and managing deals for their community development and investment portfolio. From 2007 to 2011, she was an associate at Perry Capital where she led research initiatives for the asset-backed securities team. Her career began in Ernst & Young's Financial Services Advisory practice in 2005. She holds an M.B.A. from the Yale School of Management and was a Yale Entrepreneurial Institute Venture Creation Advisor. She holds a B.S. in Finance and a minor in Life Sciences from The Ohio State University where she graduated Magna Cum Laude and was a Presidential Scholar.