Michael Blue is a co-founder of Privateer Holdings, Inc., a cannabis-focused private equity firm that founded a number of cannabis businesses (including Tilray, Inc. (NASDAQ: TLRY), Left Coast Ventures Inc. (NEO: GRAM.U), and Docklight Brands, Inc.). Privateer acquired Leafly in 2011, which it owned until 2019, when it effected a capital restructuring and distributed its ownership in Leafly to Leafly’s stockholders. Mr. Blue served as Privateer’s CFO from 2011 until 2018, and its Managing Partner from 2018 until its merger with Tilray, Inc. in 2019. He also served as an officer at Leafly between 2011 and 2019, and as a director at Leafly since 2011. Mr. Blue also serves as Managing Partner at Ten Eleven Management LLC, which provides consulting and management services to several cannabis businesses, including Leafly through March 2021. Mr. Blue received his MBA from the Yale School of Management in 2005 and a BBA in Finance from Harding University. Prior to co-founding Privateer, he served in several senior roles in private equity, including Vice President of de Visscher & Company from July 2005 to July 2007, and as Principal at Herrington, Inc., from July 2007 to October 2011.