NLDS Overview
New Leaf Data Services is a leading provider of financial, business and industry data for emerging markets in North America. We offer comprehensive and unique benchmark services for public and private organizations, and financial institutions through our Cannabis Benchmarks division.
Jonathan Rubin
CEO
Jonathan has nearly 25 years of business experience in regulated and unregulated markets, including 18 years as a management consultant advising on strategy, financing, acquisitions and post-merger integration. Over the past decade he directed the turn-around of the energy commodity analytics business acquired by Platts/McGraw-Hill Financial from The Financial Times; provided due diligence on the acquisition of a globally recognized commodity information service; and co-launched The Petrochemical Standard, a commodity pricing agency serving traders of petrochemical futures.
Ian Laird
CFO & General Counsel
Ian has more than 30 years of finance experience as a lawyer, an investment banker and a private equity investor. He has extensive experience raising capital for private companies and entrepreneurs, as well as advising public and private companies on mergers, acquisitions and divestures. Ian has specialized in structuring non-recourse project financings that address commodity price risk in various industries, including energy, mining, and pulp and paper.