Matthew J. Cohen

Matthew Cohen co-founded Stem Holdings, Inc. in 2016 and has been an independent consultant to Stem Holdings, Inc. for the last five years. Currently, Mr. Cohen serves as Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Cohen has over 38 years of experience serving in corporate leadership roles, investing capital, structuring, and funding public/private partnerships, and providing strategic advisory services to companies throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia, and Latin America. Specifically, Mr. Cohen has held the titles of Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Recovery Officer, President, Vice President, and Secretary and has extensive experience in business combinations and valuations, mergers, and acquisitions reverse mergers, revenue recognition, equity-based compensation, initial public offerings, secondary offerings, debt offerings, and REIT compliance. He is also knowledgeable in the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, including internal controls and Section 404, as well as the significant issues facing SEC registrants. Mr. Cohen, as well as being a C-suite officer, has also served on many publicly-traded company boards and was the Chairman of the Audit Committee for several companies across a variety of industries including diagnostic services, aerospace, benefits, and services company, consumer retail, and biotech. He also worked in the Investment Banking Division at Oppenheimer as an Analyst early in his career. Mr. Cohen earned a B.B.A. degree in Accounting from New Paltz State University in New York in 1980 and in that same year, was the recipient of the school’s annual scholar-athlete award. He is a member of the AICPA.