Mike Hake

President – CVGO

Summary

Assist with operations of a 50,000 sq ft greenhouse facility growing Tomatoes, Peppers, Cucumbers and Microgreens including sales and distribution to various restaurants and farmers markets throughout Southern Utah with consistent growth in market share creating opportunities to expand into multiple local grocery stores with future potential branding opportunities. Sales and distribution to various high end restaurants and Restaurant/Casinos throughout the Las Vegas market developing opportunities to increase sales through several major national distributors for 4 years, including but not limited to Melissa’s Produce, Sysco, US Foods, Nicholas & Company, and Golden State Food Service.

Working with various owners providing design build services, renovation of existing and erection of new Controlled Environmental Agriculture Greenhouse Projects. Implementing a Pest Management program, a Production Planning program with crop production methodology. Establish a seed selection and planting process utilizing organic products while growing a variety of baby greens, tomatoes, herbs, microgreens, peppers, strawberries and medical cannabis throughout Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, and California.

Analysis and construction of New Ground Up Hydroponic CEA Projects utilizing passive and active Nexus, Agra-tech and Connley Greenhouse structures. Implementation and Installation of multiple hydroponic growing systems including Deep Water Culture/Floating Raft, Ebb & Flo, NFT, Flood & drain. Incorporating Automated Computerized Software control systems, that monitor and control the Fertilizer, Nutrient, Oxygen, Co2 and PH levels maximizing consistent production, improving taste, and increasing nutrient levels in all products. Familiar with GrowTronix, Trolmaster ,Growlink, Procom and Growcom.systems

Research, Utilize and installation of various LED and Induction Lighting systems that optimize Parabolic Aluminize Reflection (PAR), Daily Light Integral (DLI) and Photosynthetic Photon Flux Density (PPFD). Utilizing a combination of red and blue light spectrums, driving peak chlorophyll pigment absorption maximizing photosynthesis, establishing healthy root systems, increasing nutrient levels for all leaf products. Increasing far red spectrums improves fruit production in all flowering plants such as peppers, tomatoes, and strawberries.

Water Sampling and testing, Selection of equipment and nutrient additives to monitor and maintain healthy oxygen and nutrient levels in the watering system while maximizing production. Introducing Bicarbus into our watering system increases our Environmental Management and maintains complete microbial control throughout the entire watering and piping system mitigating corrosion, calcification, nitrification, biomineralization and “Quorum Sensing”. Bicarbus is NSF Certified and MSDS certified Non Hazardous product that eliminates any and all Algae, Mold, and all other Waterborne Pathogens that all other facilities occasionally experience creating recall issues we are all familiar with.

Bicarbus is currently being utilized in various water districts throughout the State of Texas since 2019 and is servicing more than 2 million residential units with consistent results and collected data monitoring by the University of Houston. We collectively work with the manufacturer assisting them in establishing pilot programs in select states and various water districts we have prior relationships with, improving the water quality while mitigating the use of various forever chemicals currently being used in water treatment.

History

2009 and Prior, I held positions as General Superintendent, Pre-Construction Manager, Projecty Facilitator, Independent Consultant, Structural Concrete Manager and Assistant Superintendent.