Jennifer Ayotte is making history as the first woman to become CEO of Maricann in Langton.
LANGTON - For the first time in Marrican's history, a woman has taken over as CEO.
Jennifer Ayotte was recently appointed to the position. Canadelaar in Austria purchased Maricann's sister company Wayland last year, and appointed Ayotte to the top job as part of their restructuring plan for the company.
Ayotte is an American citizen and she first started working in the legal cannabis industry in Colorado years ago.
"My husband decided to take our entire life savings and thought it was a great idea. Having no knowledge of cannabis or growing we figured we could just out source all of it and then we just started watching our life savings kind of dwindle and have issues and I was like 'oh wow we better come up to speed really quick!' It was a life of survival at that point so I think what got me into the cannabis industry was surviving."
Ayotte specialized in business and automation of facilities. She says back then a lot of people in the industry didn't know how to bring cannabis into production or automation scale because many of them had originally come from backyard or basement illegal grows.
Ayotte eventually started consulting globally and it lead to her handling global cultivation for Maricann in Canada.
She says it's very humbling to become the first female CEO of the company. She's currently living in St. Williams and she commutes to the Langton farm every day.
She has big plans for the future.
"Providing our customers with a transparent and quality product is what my goal for Maricann is and always has been. We're going to provide transparency to the market that a lot of companies won't or are unable to do."
Ayotte says Maricann will become an active player as the cannabis industry starts to gain ground in Canada's agriculture industry.
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