As a part of New York Hashish Management Board’s (CCB) meeting on August 15, 2022, the CCB proposed and accredited John Kagia because the Workplace of Hashish Administration’s Director of Coverage. Given the expansive and stratified plans for New York’s adult-use hashish {industry} (with the final ban on vertical integration, emphasis on social fairness and superior conditional licenses), the Director of Coverage may have a fairly just a few duties.
From the OCM’s position posting, the Director of Coverage’s duties will embrace (however is not going to be restricted to!):
- Overseeing information evaluation and analysis of packages, insurance policies and initiatives of the OCM;
- Managing the strategic planning, implementation and analysis of the OCM’s coverage initiatives and serving as a senior advisor to Govt Employees;
- Directing the analysis of the affect of hashish legalization utilizing key indicators throughout quite a lot of sub-populations and metrics;
- Researching, decoding and analyzing pending laws, legal guidelines, insurance policies and administrative pointers or case regulation specializing in the consequences of legislative enactments, points, different guidelines and rules affecting the administration, packages operations or service supply; and
- Utilizing scientifically and epidemiologically legitimate strategies and requirements for coverage growth.
A couple of attention-grabbing issues to notice based mostly on the recognized duties. First, the OCM clearly was searching for somebody with a background in information analytics. Second, there seems to be an ongoing political part in that the Director of Coverage seems to be tasked with offering analytic help for the OCM and CCB’s insurance policies.
And it seems just like the OCM and CCB discovered a close to good match. Previous to be accredited and employed by the OCM, Mr. Kagia was the Chief Data Officer for New Frontier Knowledge. From his bio:
John Kagia is a pioneering thought chief within the hashish {industry}. He has developed market main forecasts for the expansion of the {industry}, uncovered groundbreaking insights into the hashish client, and led the first-of-its-kind evaluation of worldwide hashish demand.
Kagia works with buyers, enterprise house owners and operators, and {industry} innovators to grasp the fast-evolving {industry}, capitalize on rising alternatives, hedge towards dangers, and predict market-defining developments. Leveraging his years of expertise managing analysis research for industry-leading shoppers together with Accenture, Boston Consulting Group, IBM, Microsoft, and the U.S. Division of State, Kagia brings a eager understanding of how market insights allow organizations to plan, develop, compete, and measure efficiency extra successfully.
From the OCM’s perspective, the emphasis on information analytics was plainly met in Mr. Kagia. Given every part that’s taking place in New York’s adult-use hashish {industry}, Mr. Kagia may have no selection however to hit the bottom operating, nevertheless it actually looks like match and a step in the proper route.