Wellness Connection of Maine CEO Takes New Position with Parent Company, Acreage Holdings

Patricia Rosi has served as Wellness Connection’s CEO since 2013.

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July 14, 2020

Patricia Rosi, the CEO of Wellness Connection of Maine, has left her role to take a new position with the company’s parent company, Acreage Holdings, according to a Portland Press Herald report.

Rosi has served as Wellness Connection’s CEO since 2013 and will now become Acreage Holdings’ vice president of marketing, the news outlet reported.

Wellness Connection operates four of Maine’s eight medical cannabis dispensaries, as well as a cultivation facility in Auburn, the Portland Press Herald reported. Wellness Connection declined to respond to the news outlet’s inquiries about who will act as CEO in Rosi’s absence.

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