TheraTrue is a company focused on medical innovation.
Our Mission
TheraTrue prides itself on its commitment to operating fully regulated, transparent, and highly professional facilities that will deliver vital products to improve the quality of life for patients suffering from debilitating medical conditions. TheraTrue will redefine the medical cannabis patient experience by offering an elevated in-store atmosphere, opportunities for patient education and unparalleled customer service.It is our mission at TheraTrue to deliver safe, quality products developed at our processing site and thoughtful, personalized patient care through our proposed retail outlets.
Founder & Chairman
Dr. Paul Judge is an entrepreneur and investor. He has co-founded three companies that were acquired and has invested in over 60 companies. He is currently Co-Founder & Partner of TechSquare Labs and Co-Founder & Executive Chairman of Pindrop. TechSquare Labs is a company building studio and venture fund based in Atlanta. Previously Paul was co-founder of Luma Home that was acquired by a Fortune 500 in 2018. Paul was also cofounder of Purewire, a web security company, that was acquired by Barracuda in 2008. Paul served as Chief Research Officer at Barracuda through its billion-dollar IPO in 2013. Prior to this, Paul was Chief Technology Officer of CipherTrust, a leader in email security, that was acquired by Secure Computing in 2006. Paul has received many awards including being named to Fortune Magazine’s “40 Under 40” list, MIT’s Technology Review Magazine’s “Top 100 Innovators under 35”, Black Enterprise’s “50 Most Powerful Players Under 40”, and InfoWorld’s “Top 25 CTOs”. He is a member of the 2016 Class of Henry Crown Fellows and the Aspen Global Leadership Network at the Aspen Institute. Paul is the lead inventor on over 30 patents. Paul earned a B.S. from Morehouse College and a M.S. and Ph.D. from Georgia Tech in Computer Science.
Chief Executive Officer
Chris Ras is Chief Executive Officer with TheraTrue, where he is leading the company’s growth and expansion plans in Ohio, Georgia and elsewhere. Possessing more than 20 years of experience managing large-scale retail and cannabis operations, Ras is a results-driven executive with an extensive background in operations leadership, talent management, commercialization strategies and implementation. His expertise brings credible and agile leadership to the TheraTrue team with a focus on guiding operations to optimize efficiency, quality and cost of resources.
Ras spent nearly seven years in progressive leadership roles at Columbia Care LLC, helping scale the company into one of the nation’s leading multi-state operators (MSOs). In his last role of Executive Vice President at Columbia, he led national retail operations and marketing across 17 states and Washington, D.C., exceeding $450 million in annual revenues among more than 80 dispensaries. Earlier in his career, Ras held leadership roles in store operations at both Target Corporation and Hannaford Bros. Co., where he built a strong foundation in retail execution, team development, and customer experience. Most recently he served as Chief Growth Officer for Deep Roots Harvest where he managed strategic and operational oversight of retail, marketing, procurement and wholesale. Ras holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Economics, Marketing & Business Management from Cornell University and completed executive education in Marketing Management at the Tuck School of Business
Board Director
Before joining TheraTrue, Victor E. Mancebo served as President and CEO of Liberty Health Sciences, Inc. (LHS) (CSE: LHS) (OTCQX: LHSIF) a prominent vertically integrated medical cannabis company based in Florida. Under his leadership, the company expanded its footprint from four (4) to twenty-nine (29) dispensaries and operated a 250,000 square foot production facility. During his tenure at Liberty Health Sciences, the company served over 105,000 patients and witnessed the dispensation of over 4 million milligrams of medical cannabis oil and 1.2 million ounces of cannabis flower. Mr. Mancebo increased Liberty Health Sciences’ annual gross revenue from $5 million to over $54 million, a 980% growth and profitability trajectory within a 2-year period of Mr. Mancebo’s appointment. TheraTrue will leverage Mr. Mancebo’s direct experience with medical cannabis supply chain and operations to meet and exceed the patients’ needs. Mr. Mancebo has over 17 years of broad operational experience, launching and leading several national and regional companies in the United States. He has amassed executive leadership roles in banking, education, logistics, technology, food safety, manufacturing, agriculture, and retail.