mCig, Inc. announced the signing of Alex Mardikian as the company's new Chief Marketing Officer. Mardikian has in excess of twenty years of brand marketing, manufacturing and data management, experienced in small to medium scale startups in both private and public sectors internationally. The experience of Mr. Mardikian goes from owning and operating various successful companies, based in design, digital innovation and trends with operations and offices based in multiple continents. He offers an intrinsic role and proven strength in what is known as guerrilla marketing. Mardikian's expertise extends into customer loyalty and retention, data mining, aggregation, rewards/deals/incentives platforms, geo-temporal systems, credit card processing theory, merchant services, and program information design. Currently he is an advisor and project-based partner with F1 Design which serves mainstream luxury markets of automotive and super yacht branding, specific to licensing, supply chain and celebrity relations and endorsements. He is also appointed director and strategist for the Veterans for Autism non-profit group working with veterans and children suffering with autism and PTSD.