#HowWeGotHere

Cannabis is the most dynamic and fastest growing industry since the internet’s “dot com boom.”

It’s exciting to be part of the evolution and growth of an industry in the early stages of legalization. The trailblazing adventure that comes with that new growth is what first attracted us to the cannabis industry. 

This is especially true in an industry that makes such a deep, broad, and positive impact on our world today – something we’re extremely passionate about.

Fueled by a Passion for Natural Health

For us, cannabis is not just about plant-based medicine. It’s about finding natural remedies that offer an alternative to chemical-laden pharmaceutics which are so popular today. 

This means using preventive medicine – and most importantly – having the freedom to choose to self-medicate with all the natural ingredients that nature provides to us. 

Our family health relies more heavily on natural remedies to cure our ailments than pharmaceuticals. We believe that what we put in our bodies should always fuel and nourish you. 

Cannabis is no exception. 

Our goal is to further the research of the cannabis plant – helping to uncover more capabilities for truly nourishing the body.

The Right Place & The Right Time

We’ve always wanted to start an entrepreneurial adventure in an industry we wholeheartedly believe in... 

… so we partnered with colleagues in our home-state of Florida who shared a passion for the cannabis plant to pursue a medical-marijuana license.  

But at the time Florida lost the vote to legalize medical marijuana in November 2014 –falling short with 57.6% of the 60% of votes needed to pass.

So with the uneasy legal climate and two small children at home – we decided that starting a new business that required an enormous investment and had a long road to being profitable was too uncomfortable for our family at the time. 

But all that changed when the next bill amendment in 2016 established a medical marijuana program in Florida with a popular vote of 71%.

Based on the shift in Florida law, we renewed our drive to enter the cannabis industry and launched our cannabis-specific executive recruitment agency, The GIGG, to serve the recruitment needs of this budding industry. 

But while The GIGG grew rapidly, we determined that the name didn’t match the white-glove high-touch service we were providing. So we rebranded and relaunched our executive recruitment agency under the name Hunter + Esquire. We are a seasoned retained executive search professional and a lawyer – together, we’re Hunter (get it?) and Esquire.

Now, our team at The GIGG provides non-executive placement and team-building, Recruitment Process Outsourcing (“RPO”), and staffing services, while we focus our personal efforts on our clients with retained executive-level search needs at Hunter + Esquire. 

We believe this industry can achieve the highest levels of success only if we all work together to move toward a professionalized future. 

So our commitment to you is to help you elevate your brand, your business, and our industry so we can all move forward toward a better future together.

If you’d like to partner with an executive search agency that goes beyond recruitment, and offers you a personalized, tailored, and relationship-based approach then contact us.