Leadership: Electrum Partners leadership team offers unique perspectives to clients drawing on their highly successful and varied backgrounds.
Leslie Bocskor
Executive Chairman
Most folks in the cannabis industry for any length of time know Bocskor by face, name and for his exuberant laugh and immaculate three-piece suits. But don’t be fooled by his formidable frame. This Transylvanian-descended Renaissance man does not intimidate. He leads by example by embracing an open source collaborative model unrestricted by time zones and geographies.
Bocskor’s confidence enables him to assume a leadership role, mentor up-and-coming executives and businesses, and collaborate with other leaders. His experience, energy, laser focus and passion have helped propel the industry’s financial and social ascent.
Bocskor’s insights, expertise, and global stature make him the man who policy makers, investors, and entrepreneurs seek out for future planning and immediate fixing. He is the undisputed choice as the voice on cannabis issues and business, from state-of-the-art technology and best practices, to policy, industry financing and expansion. Committed to a culture of compassion at Electrum Partners and throughout the industry, he takes pride in ushering in changes that rewrite history, whether it’s the empathic opening of patient access, or the invention of a national innovation funding reset button.
His far-reaching banking and entrepreneurial experience and inimitable style are bolstered with his knowledge of any cannabis vertical — from domestic and international policy to finding your niche investing opportunity, from supercritical extraction to ERP solutions, from seed-to-sale to the entourage effect of strategic business integration. Bocskor has become one of the most influential people in the cannabis space, guiding policy and reform.
Paul Madoff
Senior Vice President of Operations and IT
Paul Madoff is the Senior Vice President of Operations and IT at Electrum Partners, bringing operational critical thinking coupled with high level technical execution to Electrum Partners’ leadership team, clients and partners. Known for large scale project management and spearheading complex business operations, he brings his proven, detail oriented approach to support the company’s growth as the leading advisory firm for investors, entrepreneurs and policy makers in the cannabis business and ecosystem.
Prior to joining Electrum Partners, Mr. Madoff directed multi-million dollar initiatives for technology implementation and operations for a portfolio of 61 international and domestic resorts. He brings expertise as a former Information Security Officer in charge of enforcing network policy for a state government, and success in delivering improved department workflow.
Mr. Madoff has spearheaded IT projects as varied as scripting an admin interface for Patriot Act interdiction screening to building a website search engine front-end architecture and database for a photographer’s trade organization. He also scripted a peer-reviewed, hardened php/MySQL website system that resulted in the food and educational needs sponsorship of 521 orphaned children in Uganda and Kenya.
Mr. Madoff graduated with a BA from University of California at Davis. He lives in Las Vegas, Nevada and is dedicated to making positive change in the world.
Krista Polascik
Vice President Human Resources & Administration
Ms. Polascik is responsible for company logistics including organizing events and conferences, company travel, investor relations, corporate communications, staff calendar coordination and related project coordination. Ms. Polascik brings extensive compliance experience from her career in the insurance industry including Office Administrator the Private Client Services Division of Marsh USA, Inc. Ms. Polascik was also a Commercial Lines Account Manager at Cragin & Pike Insurance and the Harry A. Koch Company. In addition, Ms. Polascik has held roles in gaming and liquor compliance and licensing, risk management and human resources.
Ms. Polascik is an Accredited Advisor of Insurance and previously held property, casualty, life and health licenses in Nevada and Nebraska.