Doug Lambert is a veteran entrepreneur, investor, and business executive with more than two decades of experience guiding innovative startups in all stages of the entrepreneurial journey. Lambert has a wide-range of experience across multiple industries, including green tech, cyber security, and renewable energy, but during recent years he has specialized in helping nurture startups in the industrial cannabis sector, including Rebel Spirit, an organic cannabis holding company, and Tempo, a pioneer of cannabis-infused beverages.
Through a strategic partnership with 2nd Glantz, Lambert leads PlanetWise’s Strategic Advisory services where he not only helps our team identify promising innovators in green energy, sustainable food and agriculture, and bioscience, but guides our portfolio companies through each step of the business-building process: from ideation and build to the scale and exit phase of the journey. “Whether PlanetWise clients need expertise in logistics, finance, branding, messaging, human resources, or legal,” Lambert says, “Our goal is the same. Add Value. Always.”
Raised outside of Chicago, Lambert holds a master’s degree from DePaul University, and a bachelor’s degree from Ball State University. Fun fact about Doug: He has never lost an election. Doug is the only person to serve as president of his class at Homewood-Flossmoor High School for four consecutive years.