Delia Flanagan
Investor
Athens, Attiki
Overview
Work Experience
Head of Business Development
2025 - Current
Lead international commercial strategy and market entry for EU-GMP certified medical cannabis, bridging North American suppliers with European distributors and coordinating cross-functional teams across compliance, regulatory, and supply chain for successful global product launches. Manage business development pipeline across 3 continents, optimizing internal systems to support scalability and transparency.
Business Development Manager
2024 - 2025
New Garden Pharma is full-service cannabis operator with advanced extraction and processing facility located in Skopje, North Macedonia. As Business Development Manager, I support overall growth and expansion, targeted towards creating new business opportunities, partnerships and stakeholders. Coming from the North American cannabis market, I am especially taking the lead on strategic partnerships between continents, supporting North American entities that are looking globally launch new products in the burgeoning European market landscape through medical export and/or licensing deals.
Global Business Development & Sales | Consultant & Contractor
2023
Independent consultant and contractor based in the EU, advising and leading business development strategies and operations for a variety of cannabis, hemp and beverage companies across the USA and Europe. My work is primarily based in the EU with a two-fold focus: 1) Global Medical Cannabis Market and 2) Regenerative Agriculture engagement through nature-based carbon credits, with a focus on hemp and biochar.
Enterprise Account Executive
2022 - 2023
Bespoke Financial is the first licensed fintech lender in the cannabis industry, providing non-dilutive, scalable financing to help alleviate cash issues so that you can focus on growing your business. In the first three months, developed and strategized engagement of new account target list of 200+ and owned the full sales cycle resulting in $4M of revolving lines of credit.
Bespoke Financial is a licensed lender supporting cannabis companies.
Raised $141,400,000.00 from Robert Stavis, Cosmic Venture Partners, Philip Barach, Greenhouse Capital Partners, Ceres Group Holdings, Sweat Equity Ventures and Casa Verde Capital.
Cannabis Industry Advisor
2021 - 2023
New favorite platform of investment driven by a need to make a long term impact, The Brkfst Club focuses on gathering like-minded individuals to invest in ground breaking ideas. Services include co-investment, fundraising, and an e-commerce accelerator.
Sales Account Executive
2021 - 2022
Carbon-neutral cannabis cultivation, manufacturing and distribution company building an in-house suite of CPG wellness brands beginning with A Golden State and PHASES: Opened and managed 115 accounts and brought in $1.8M sales in first year, contributing to 80% of company’s packaged sales.
Sales & Business Development Consultant
2020 - 2022
Global cannabis and hemp consultancy firm: Sourced clients and consulted business owners in GTM strategies, understanding company goals, building presentations, proposals and roadmaps, providing key market feedback
Sales Manager
2020 - 2021
Premium wellness and edibles brand combining creative culture, regenerative agriculture and award-winning chefs. Distinguished through an ingredient-driven approach, the exclusive use of flower rosin, and our collaborations with celebrated chefs and farmers: Sales Manager for Rose Delights (California) and CBD Rose Delights (national) portfolio of products. Opened 50+ new accounts and contributed to 165% sales growth in first six months.
Rose Los Angeles is a manufacturing company that specializes in producing flower rosin from the cannabis flower.
Head of Sales & Exhibitor Operations
2018 - 2020
Hall of Flowers is a licensed, industry-only, highly curated B2B show designed to facilitate commerce between our vast network of premium licensed cannabis brands and retailers. Our product categories span across flower, concentrates, edibles, topicals, accessories and technology. Hall of Flowers is the first show of its kind to deliver an experience that elevates the cannabis industry to a new level of cultural significance: Source, vetted and managed 500+ participating cannabis brands, generating over $6.5 mil in Exhibitor Sales for three consecutive seasons. Conceptualized and launched the Hall of Flowers Equity Grant Program in June 2020 to expand outreach and support to marginalized communities and to address the lack of BIPOC-represented brands and legacy farmers who have experienced financial distress due to legalization at HoF events. Continues to serve as advisor for ongoing grant program.
Hall of Flowers has become the pulse of the Cannabis industry and trend curator it is today by focusing on these pillars.
Sales & Operations Manager, Art & Auction
2016 - 2018
AlBahie is a subsidiary of Abu Issua Holdings and is the first local art auction house in Qatar: Founding team member and Sales & Operations Manager; collaborated across all departments and with Chairman Ashraf Abu Issa to build out sales playbook and innovate our product offerings; launched partnerships with New York Times and Roche Bobois through creation and presentation of proposals to Chairman, and developed and executed large scale exhibitions and events to drive and exceed sales quotas
Special Programs: Africa & the Middle East
2015 - 2016
The Armory Show presents the world’s leading international galleries showcasing works from both modern masters and cutting-edge contemporary artists, and helps the art market thrive through making buying, selling, and discovering art more accessible: Managed public programming for international art fair, serving as key liaison and organizer for galleries and artists from Africa and the Middle East. Managed coordination of VIP events, securing venues & vendors, negotiating contracts, booking music programming and designing and delivering signage and promotional materials.
The Armory Show presents international contemporary and modern art galleries.
Education
BA
2009 - 2013
Master of Science - MS
2024 - 2027