
Ruth Epstein, Partner
Ruth Epstein has over 20 years’ experience providing financial and strategic advisory services to companies across a wide range of mature and emerging growth industries. She spent ten years at Goldman, Sachs & Co. in New York and San Francisco in the Investment Banking Division working on corporate finance and M&A transactions for high tech and general industrial clients. In addition to her IPO, high yield debt and private placement activities at Goldman, Ruth has also been actively involved in capital-raising and startup organization of companies in the cannabis industry. She served as Interim CFO/COO for Treez, Inc. while successfully raising Seed and Series A financing; is a Board Member of the branding company WLDKAT founded by senior members of the cosmetics company Urban Decay; and currently serves as President, CFO and Board Member of Tuscan Holdings, a Special Purpose Acquisition Corporation that raised $276 Million through an IPO on NASDAQ in March 2019.
Previously, Ruth raised funds for an independent film fund and produced feature films, and raised capital for a hedge fund, most recently as Chief Operating Officer of BridgePark Advisors, LLC, an M&A advisory firm in New York, and as Senior Vice President of Business Development for Holt Media Companies, where she successfully sourced and negotiated the acquisition of a media sales company. Ruth graduated from Harvard Business School and Wesleyan University with academic distinction.
Additional Information and Media:
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"Former Canopy CEO Bruce Linton Follows Epstein's Lead into SPAC Financing"
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"Industry OG Ruth Epstein Featured on Cannabis Financing Panel about SPACs"
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"MG Magazine, the Cannabis Industry's Most Innovative Pub, Features Epstein"
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"BGP's Epstein Among Cannabis Industry Leaders in Be a Voice, Not an Echo Campaign"
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"Top 10 List: The 10 Most Interesting Females in Cannabis Includes Epstein"
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"Entrepreneur.com Quotes Epstein on Cannabis Investors' Risk Tolerance"
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"American Cannabis Report Quotes Epstein on GOP Tax Reform as Potential Cannabis Boost"
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"BGP Advisors Mentor Software Entrepreneur for Arcview Pitch"
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"Trailblazer Ruth Epstein Unpacks the Challenges and Opportunities in Cannabis"