Holly Bell - Founder
Holly works as a full time consultant helping start-up businesses create the infrastructure necessary to operate as a functional corporation. She serves as a fractional CFO for multiple businesses, including the largest private broadcast studio facility in the Eastern United States. She has proven to be instrumental in saving these companies from insolvency by streamlining their business structure and operational models. As a Political Appointee, she served as Director of Cannabis for The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, from 2018 to 2022, where she created the hemp industry throughout the state of Florida, regulating everything from cultivation to processing to manufacturing to retail. During her tenure, the industry grew into a multi-billion dollar industry employing over 180,000 people. (To view the Economic Impact Report, CLICK HERE)
She is a highly organized, results-driven individual with a keen ability to assess at a strategic level and then manage the process to the tactical level. These are the skillsets she used to assemble the team that now comprises HBC.
She coaches the HBC team and shares her skillsets which include; strong forensic accounting skills, extensive regulatory and compliance knowledge, and an ability to assess employees’ productivity as it relates to the business model to ensure the company is utilizing every person and asset to its greatest potential.
She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Agriculture Economics from Purdue University.