Chief Financial Officer

Frank Maher is a senior executive with 30+ years general management, operating, financial, and investment banking experience within the Consumer Products Industry. Frank has significant hands-on experience in general management, strategic and financial planning, operations, supply chain management, corporate development, M&A and, importantly, in leading, managing and driving the development, growth and success of an independent craft spirits business.

A former senior Consumer/Food & Beverage investment banker with over 23 years of financial advisory experience, Frank had a reputation as a solid all-around banker, strategic and creative thinker and trusted advisor. Frank worked with companies across the consumer industry, ranging from leading global players such as Altria, Brown-Forman, Miller Brewing, adidas, and Chobani to small entrepreneurial businesses.

The experiences and stories of the entrepreneurs struck a cord with Frank. This eventually led to a desire to build a company rather than advise from the outside. Frank co-founded Millstone Spirits Group, a leading craft spirits company focused on managing a portfolio of high growth craft spirits brands centered primarily within Pennsylvania and Mid-Atlantic markets up and down the I-95 corridor. Frank was instrumental in building Millstone into a successful and scalable spirits business and platform and to it being named Distillery of the Year in 2022.

Frank appreciates the hands-on nature of being a small business owner and executive and the excitement, passion, and drive that comes with nurturing and building sustainable, scalable businesses to be proud of.

Prior to Cannapreneur and Millstone Spirits, Frank was a Consumer investment banker with Wasserstein Perella, Lehman Brothers, Chase and KeyBanc.