Geoff Whaling is chair of the National Hemp Association, a non-profit hemp advocacy group based in Washington D.C. He has worked with the White House and members of Congress to pass federal legislation, including the 2018 Farm Bill, which removed hemp and its constituents from the Controlled Substances Act. Whaling is president and co-founder of Collective Growth Corp., which has received approval from the Securities and Exchange Commission to trade on the Nasdaq. CGC will be focused on the hemp conversion chain,, bringing together (for end users and markets) the missing yet necessary piece of harvesting, decortication, processing and secondary processing of hemp and its major components.