David Dinenberg is an American business executive best known as the founder and former CEO of

KIND Financial KIND Financial is an American start-up focused on providing financial technology services for the cannabis industry. KIND would fail to launch, with CEO and founder David Dinenberg departing the company on May 4, 2023. History In 2013, David Din ...

Personal life and education

David Dinenberg was born in Philadelphia and graduated from

Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State or PSU) is a Public university, public Commonwealth System of Higher Education, state-related Land-grant university, land-grant research university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsyl ...

. He currently resides in Los Angeles with his family.

Career

Real Chef

Dinenberg was the co-founder and executive vice president of Real Chef, which developed its own proprietary brand of cooking tools and foods, as well as the nationally known Flavor Magic.

Tycoon Entertainment

After leaving Real Chef, Dinenberg was the chief operating officer and a partner at Tycoon Entertainment, a full-service film finance and production company. His responsibilities included the day-to-day operations of the company, deal structure, sourcing debt for the projects as well as budget oversight. He worked with agents, lawyers, producers and distributors, both foreign and domestic.

Grasso Holdings

Dinenberg was Chief Operations Officer of Grasso Holdings in Philadelphia, a full-service real estate development company, where he ran day-to-day operations for the 45 person organization managing an asset portfolio valued in excess of $400 million. Dinenberg was recognized as one of the Top 20 people to Watch in the Philadelphia Area by ''Philadelphia Magazine''.

KIND Financial

Dinenberg founded and was the CEO of

, a financial technology company providing software solutions to businesses within the cannabis industry transact securely and in compliance with laws and regulations. He has been interviewed or quoted by several media outlets including CNBC, ''Inc.'', ''Forbes'', ''Philadelphia'' magazine, ''The Deal'', and ''LA Business Journal''. Dinenberg was forced to step down and turnover hi
company-issued shares
of

in September of 2023 as investors lost financial visibility of the company and accused him of breach of fiduciary duty and misuse of company funds.

Board positions

Dinenburg co-founded the Philadelphia Retail Advisory Board. In 2012, he was named the president and member of the board of directors for the Philadelphia Chapter of the Jewish National Fund, the youngest ever president of any Jewish foundation in the United States.

References

External links

KIND Financial
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