Urban-gro, Inc. Appoints Richard Akright to the Board
February 25, 2020 at 08:14 am EST
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On February 19, 2020, the Board of Directors of urban-gro, Inc. appointed Richard (“Dick”) Akright, the Company’s Chief Financial Officer, to the Board. Mr. Akright was appointed as the Company’s Interim Chief Financial Officer in August 2019 and became Chief Financial Officer on December 1, 2019.
urban-gro, Inc. is an integrated professional services and design-build firm. The Company offers value-added architectural, engineering, and construction management solutions to the Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA), industrial, healthcare, and other commercial sectors. It creates indoor cultivation facilities to grow specialty crops, including cannabis as well as produce such as leafy greens, vegetables, herbs and berries. It provides its clients with design-build service offerings that include architectural, interior, and engineering design, construction and construction management, as well as services for the operational stages of the facility. The Company's pre-construction services include providing a forecast summary of what it takes to get a high-performance facility built, giving initial indication and detailed analysis of budget, timeline/schedule, and potential large decision impacts, including value analysis and value engineering options.