We at CannaCFO Magazine are beyond excited to launch our very first digital magazine specifically designed to provide value-added content to the financial executive and investor communities of cannabis, hemp and cbdmarketplaces. Being part of the family of cannainvestor magazines (www.cannainvestormag.com), allows us immediate access to over 120,000 of canna professionals and investors. We plan on expanding our reachto the non-canna professional communities who also want to learn about the unique challenges of our industry.
Mr. Adam B. Remis, CPA, CISA, MSIM is CannaCFO’s Co-Founder and Editor-In-Chief. Mr. Remis grew up in San Diego, California obtaining his Bachelors in Quantitative Economic Decision Science from the University of California, San Diego in 1991. After receiving a Certificate of Accounting at the California State University of San Bernardino, Mr. Remis passed the grueling 3-day written Certified Public Accountant (“CPA”) exam the first time and then moved to Phoenix, Arizona to follow his family and golf passion. Working at the State of Arizona Auditor General’s Office, a separate entity from the legislature and executive branches, Mr. Remis completed all of his initial financial audit requirements and obtained his Certified Public Accountant (“CPA”) license in 1997. In the 1990s after doing typical accounting and tax public accounting work, he was awarded a Master of Science in Information Management (“MSIM”) at Arizona State University in 1999. This provided the ability to launch the technology portion of hiscareer starting with Deloitte & Touche’ / Deloitte Consulting out of Los Angeles, California from 1999-2003 providing SAP Security and Internal Controls implementations support to a few clients such as PALM, Pioneer North America, Nestle and Sacramento Municipal Utility District (“SMUD”). During his down-time while off of long-term implementation projects, Mr. Remis supported financial audits providing General Computing Control services as a subject matter expert.
Realizing being a road warrior wasn’t sustainable, Mr. Remis settled back to Phoenix, Arizona and started with Jefferson Wells providing Sarbanes-Oxley solutions to mid-tier publicly traded companies which included Meritage Homes, Choice Hotels, Capital Title and Mesa Airlines. Realizing that technology controls were extremely important to the overall internal control infrastructure of an organization, Mr. Remis got involved in the Information Systems and Control Association (“ISACA”) Arizona Chapter in 2004 and became Arizona Chapter President in 2007. During one of the ISACA Chapter Meetings, members of the American Express Internal Audit team reached out to him and shortly thereafter, in April 2006, Mr. Remis joined American Express as a Director of Technology –Internal Audit. In 2008, he received the Certificate of Security Auditor (“CISA”) certification and also was asked to join the Audit Committee of the ISACA International organization.