David Dinenberg

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David Dinenberg is an American business executive best known as the founder and former CEO of KIND Financial. [1] [2]

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Personal life and education

David Dinenberg was born in Philadelphia and graduated from Pennsylvania State University. [3] He currently resides in Los Angeles with his family. [4]

Career

Real Chef

Dinenberg was the co-founder and executive vice president of Real Chef, which developed its own proprietary brand of cooking tools and foods, as well as the nationally known Flavor Magic. [5]

Tycoon Entertainment

After leaving Real Chef, Dinenberg was the chief operating officer and a partner at Tycoon Entertainment, a full-service film finance and production company. His responsibilities included the day-to-day operations of the company, deal structure, sourcing debt for the projects as well as budget oversight. He worked with agents, lawyers, producers and distributors, both foreign and domestic. [5]

Grasso Holdings

Dinenberg was Chief Operations Officer of Grasso Holdings in Philadelphia, [6] a full-service real estate development company, where he ran day-to-day operations for the 45 person organization managing an asset portfolio valued in excess of $400 million. [7] Dinenberg was recognized as one of the Top 20 people to Watch in the Philadelphia Area by Philadelphia Magazine. [4]

KIND Financial

Dinenberg founded and was the CEO of KIND Financial, a financial technology company providing software solutions to businesses within the cannabis industry transact securely and in compliance with laws and regulations. [4] He has been interviewed or quoted by several media outlets including CNBC, [8] Inc., [9] Forbes, [10] Philadelphia magazine, [11] The Deal, [12] and LA Business Journal. [13] Dinenberg was forced to step down and turnover his company-issued shares of KIND Financial in September of 2023 as investors lost financial visibility of the company and accused him of breach of fiduciary duty and misuse of company funds.

Board positions

Dinenburg co-founded the Philadelphia Retail Advisory Board. [14] In 2012, he was named the president and member of the board of directors for the Philadelphia Chapter of the Jewish National Fund, the youngest ever president of any Jewish foundation in the United States. [15] [16]

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References

  1. ↑ "Five for Friday: Medical marijuana entrepreneur David Dinenberg" Philly Voice. Retrieved 2016-04-17.
  2. ↑ "Software Firms Benefit from Government’s Seed-to-Sale Marijuana Tracking" Government Technology. Retrieved 2016-04-17.
  3. ↑ "How entrepreneur's pot startup hooked Microsoft". The Seattle Times. 2016-07-03. Retrieved 2019-03-06.
  4. 1 2 3 Bradley, Nate. "Board Nominees 2016". www.cacannabisindustry.org. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
  5. 1 2 "David Dinenberg: Executive Profile & Biography - Businessweek". www.bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
  6. ↑ "Snider backs ex-Philly broker's pot finance firm" Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved 2016-04-17.
  7. ↑ Wink, Author Christopher. "David Dinenberg: growing Grasso". Christopher Wink. Retrieved 2016-04-19.{{cite web}}: |first= has generic name (help)
  8. ↑ "Why I started a financial-services firm for pot" CNBC. Retrieved 2016-04-17.
  9. ↑ "New Software Could Help Marijuana Businesses Get Access to Banks" Inc.. Retrieved 2016-04-17.
  10. ↑ "Cannabis Credit Union Loses Case Against Fed Reserve Bank" Forbes. Retrieved 2016-04-17.
  11. ↑ "Pot Is Coming, Philadelphia!" Philadelphia. Retrieved 2016-04-17.
  12. ↑ "Marijuana financial services firm Kind Financial acquires software maker Agrisoft" Archived 2015-07-04 at the Wayback Machine The Deal. Retrieved 2016-04-17.
  13. ↑ "Tuesday Rundown: Kind Financial Launches Cannabis Banking Software, Saban Picks Up Hello Kitty Exec" Los Angeles Business Journal. Retrieved 2016-04-17.
  14. ↑ "David Dinenberg". kind.financial. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
  15. ↑ "On the Boards". philly-archives. Archived from the original on October 9, 2013. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
  16. ↑ "HughE Dillon: Jewish Nat'l Fund Honors David L. Cohen - The Scene". Philadelphia Magazine. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
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