A successful serial entrepreneur, Ariane Kirkpatrick is the CEO of Harvest Grows, Harvest of Ohio, and Harvest Processing, companies with large-scale medical, cannabis cultivation, dispensary and processing licenses, for operations in Ironton, suburban Dayton, Columbus, and Athens, Ohio. Her plan is to create economic development opportunities that come with marijuana and its ability to change lives, transform economies and provide jobs for people who desperately need work. Ariane is also President and CEO of The AKA Team, a professional female and minority business enterprise union labor shop specializing in maintenance of site, post construction cleaning and providing union site labor.