Melanie Nash

Melanie Nash is the CEO of TUMI Genomics with more than 20 years of leadership experience and 10 years in the cannabis industry. She began her cannabis career as the opening General Manager of one of the first dispensaries on the east coast in Boston in 2015, then moved to Oakland to lead operations in the nursery and genetics space. Melanie rose to COO at Dark Heart Nursery, where the team was first to identify Hop Latent Viroid as the cause of cannabis dudding disease, and later served as COO of Purple City Genetics, expanding access to genetics across California, the United States, and internationally. She brings deep expertise in operations, sales, and team leadership and is focused on building scalable organizations that support long-term industry success.