Meet the CannaComply Accounting Team

Cristina Garza

Founder

Cristina Garza absolutely loves her work, and it shows. As founder of CannaComply, she is able to support small businesses in an industry she truly believes in. She is proud to have a wonderful team of rock star accountants who treat each client like a member of the family. She believes that one her greatest accomplishments is finding a group of uniquely talented people who go above and beyond every single day. When she is not reading regulations, creating color coded SOPs, working with her team, or chatting up a client, she can be found teaching at accounting seminars or skiing (badly) with her family.

Kienan Almeida

Operations Manager

Kienan is the glue that keeps the office together. He makes sure that we keep our promises to our clients, by developing a timeline to complete our projects and making sure we stick to them. Not only does he handle our project management, but he works directly with our clients to be sure that they feel supported throughout every step of our process. Every office needs someone like Kienan to control the chaos.

Kristie Simas

Senior Controller

Kristie is an autodidact who absorbs information as quickly as it is given to her. She has worked through the ranks at CannaComply, managing every aspect of our work. She can now be found developing internal trainings and coaching our superstar accountants as our Senior Controller, so they can provide the best experience for our clients.

When she isn’t working, she can be found hanging out with her husband, her pup, or pumping iron.

Morgan Guidry

Controller

Nich Bailey

Onboarding Guru

Nich graduated from the University of Colorado – Boulder with an M.S. and B.S. in Accounting and has been a CPA since 2012. Nich has been a public accountant for 8 years and worked with everything from multinational corporations to small start-ups. He absolutely loves working with small businesses because he enjoys getting to know the businesses and the people behind them.

Outside of accounting, Nich loves playing basketball and volleyball, traveling the world and going to concerts and comedy shows.

Ivy Calgaard

Onboarding Guru

Ivy, a German Language and Business Administration Major from Belmont University, has fine-tuned her small business and full-cycle accounting expertise over the last eight years in the field. As a life-long “neatnik,” her natural strengths in organization and efficiency compliment the skills she has built. Further, with over a decade of experience in client services, she has honed her ability to communicate productively, problem solve resourcefully, and create relationships that thrive.

In her downtime, you might find Ivy hooking it up with a crochet hook, a glass of red wine, and the softest cotton yarn she can find.

Jacob Vissering

Onboarding Guru

Jacob graduated from Northern Arizona University with degrees in Accountancy and Hospitality Management. After school, he stayed true to both of his degrees by obtaining valuable work experience in hotel and restaurant accounting. After working with many small restaurant owner and operators Jacob realized his true passion was helping small business owners be successful. An insatiable hunger to learn more, Jacob joins the CannaComply team to broaden his accounting knowledge and apply it to new and different industries.

When he isn’t working you’ll find him in the mountains hunting for fresh powder to snowboard or new rock faces to summit.

Thomas Daniels

Ongoing Accountant

Thomas, an NAU graduate, is a super star accountant who loves working with our clients. He will take time to troubleshoot issues, will train our clients, and makes sure that they feel like they are getting the help they need. Thomas enjoys staying active by playing basketball, golf and lifting weights. He keeps his mind active by tinkering with a computer he built himself.

Kristi Mount

Ongoing Accountant

Kristi cut her teeth at Western Dakota Tech, learning the nuts and bolts of accounting and marketing- a unique combination! While boosting her skills in school, she worked with local small businesses in Rapid City, South Dakota to help them bring their brands to the masses and understand their financial performance. She recently moved to Phoenix, AZ to join CannaComply, so that she could continue doing what she does best- creating new ways to find and help our clients with our awesome accounting and payroll services.

Outside of work, she enjoys trying to take her cat on walks, reading books, and painting happy trees and little fluffy clouds a la Bob Ross.

Ethan Cathey

Ongoing Accountant

Ethan is a graduate of Colorado State University where he earned a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting and Business Administration. He got straight to work with a number of small businesses at a local CPA firm in Southwestern Colorado before moving to Portland, Oregon and coming in house as a part of the finance department at Digital Trends. He joined the CannaComply team to take full advantage of the cutting edge advances in tech that are changing the accounting profession.

In his free time, Ethan fills all the Portland stereotypes with recreational eating, cheering on the Portland Timbers soccer team, and being insufferably snobbish about his beer.

Meagan Minneman

Ongoing Accountant

Meagan, after earning her B.S. and M.S. from Kansas State University in Apparel Marketing + Design, found her true calling in Accounting. Along with her software management and small business consultant background, she is excited to continue on her Accountant path at CannaComply.

When she’s not nerding out in Excel, you can find her spending time with her husband, dog Baxter (Westie) and cat Olive (Cat), exploring the local restaurants and cocktail lounges of Kansas City, and traveling the Caribbean.

Beth Streeter

Ongoing Accountant

Beth is a graduate from Adams State University with a B.S. in Business Administration with an emphasis in Accounting and minor in Finance. She has gained a wide range of experience previously in a public accounting firm assisting local small businesses, governments and non-profits. She is excited to bring her knowledge, ‘do what it takes’ outlook and bubbly personality to the CannaComply team. When Beth isn’t knee deep in numbers, you can find her crafting, playing with her dog Peach or enjoying the great outdoors Colorado has to offer.

Erin Spross

Ongoing Accountant

Erin is an accountant extraordinaire who has worked with a variety of small businesses in Texas and Colorado, and strives to provide the critical accounting support cannabis business owners need to succeed. She is determined to keep our clients organized so they can focus on the bigger picture.

When she’s not working she’s exploring the Rocky Mountains with her dog Butters and knitting enough sweaters to keep a small army warm.

Jordan Medina

Ongoing Accountant

Jordan has been living and breathing Xero throughout his entire career in accounting. Jordan is an expert in handling clients’ daily bookkeeping, and helping them understand their books so their business can succeed. When Jordan isn’t working he can be found boxing at his local boxing gym or hanging out with his wife and their new baby.

Collin Cathey

Ongoing Accountant

Collin lives in Fort Collins and earned his B.A in Accounting from Colorado State University in 2017 and has been working in public accounting ever since. With a passion for supporting small businesses and client relationship development he joined the CannaComply team to work more closely with business owners and entrepreneurs. When Collin isn’t working he can be found exercising with his Husky (Kelly), playing tennis, biking around town, or enjoying the local restaurants.

Jordan Cass

Administrative Assistant

Originally from Southern California, Jordan has lived in Colorado since 2004 and earned his B.A. and M.A. at the University of Denver. He has held various analyst and administrative support roles in mortgage due diligence and higher education, though no job will ever equal the surreal atmosphere of his brief stint at Build-A-Bear Workshop. He likes to write, watch hockey, play broomball, play tennis, ski, and read. He lives with his girlfriend, his cat, and his dog (Anne Furkins) in Denver.