KushCo Holdings, Inc. announced that it has appointed Rhiana Barr as the Company's Chief People Officer. This new position was created to build and scale a "best place to work" culture and to enhance the Company's organizational capability and effectiveness as KushCo's business, workforce, and culture continue to grow and evolve. Barr brings nearly two decades of human resources (HR) experience to KushCo, having worked in a variety of roles across a diverse set of leading, global organizations, where she led and implemented human resource and organizational effectiveness strategies to drive business results. Her expertise encompasses full scale recruiting, talent development, and people operations experience. Barr previously served as the Head of HR Business Partners and Talent Acquisition at Cetera Financial Group and as a member of its human resources leadership team, where she managed the business partner function across the organization to support managers and leaders. In addition, she oversaw and managed the talent acquisition team, and was responsible for the ongoing transformation of Cetera's hiring strategy to attract and retain top talent for the organization while in a stage of hyper growth. Prior to Cetera, Barr served as the Director of Human Resources at Clearwater Paper Corporation, where she transformed the human resources function and was an integral leader on various M&A and synergy initiatives. As KushCo's Chief People Officer, Barr will lead the Company's human resources team and will manage all aspects of human resources, including compensation, benefits, recruiting, training, employee relations, payroll, talent management, and HR technology. In addition, Barr will interface extensively with the leadership team on all talent- and HR-related activities to help prepare and scale the organization through the next phase of organic and inorganic growth. These activities include defining, developing, and implementing talent management and learning solutions; building a regular talent review process; developing a diversity and inclusion strategy; advising on all human capital initiatives; and leading and executing an appropriate market competitive total reward strategy that enables KushCo to hire, develop, retain, and reward the talent required to meet and exceed strategic, financial, and operational objectives.