Terron Sims

About Terron Sims

Terron Sims, II is a combat veteran, businessman, political leader, a West Point graduate, and Chairs the DNC’s Veterans and Military Families (VMF) Council. Mr. Sims is the CEO of Doug Pollard, LLC, where he advises companies and nonprofits on business development and strategy. He also has over three decades of experience with the Department of Defense (DoD), dealing with everything from civil military operations to installation management. From 2005 to 2013, Mr. Sims supported DoD as a government contractor. He worked with Army G3/5/7 Current Operations Center, tasking MACOMs to support MNC-I, MNF-I, SOCCENT operations for its HQ, Arabian Peninsula, the Horn of Africa, and SW Asia, GTMO, JTFB, JTF-HOA, and various OCONUS and CONUS operations. Mr. Sims also supported the Assistant Chief of Staff of the Army for Installation Management (ACSIM), developing and managing the system that streamlines the Army’s installation requirements budget validation process. He also led the team that developed DoD’s Sexual Assault Incident Database (DSAID). From to 2005, Mr. Sims served on active duty in the US Army as a Field Artillery officer. While deployed in Iraq from 2003 to 2004, Mr. Sims established and mentored the government of Baghdad’s Tisa Nissan District, where he served as the primary liaison to the CPA, the UN, Baghdad City Hall, and Iraq’s federal government. His final Army assignment as the Deputy Chief-of-Training for the Joint Readiness Training Center (JRTC) and Fort Polk was designing and leading pre-construction operations of a $29 Million dollar real-world fighting village. Mr. Sims has served in political roles of increasing responsibility over the past three decades. Most recently, he led the team that wrote the national security policy platform for all of the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates. Additionally, Mr. Sims wrote the Veterans Services and National Security Policy Platforms for the (UK) Labour Party and briefed them to its Shadow Defense Cabinet.

Experience

1. Advisory Board Member

   Columbia Care

   Jun 2018 — Present

   Columbia Care is one of the largest, fully integrated operators in the U.S, operating in 18 markets across the country and the EU. Since 2012, we have built a cannabis company rooted in quality, expertise and trust – and continue to grow alongside an evolving industry. As one of the original medical cannabis operators, we have forged a path through a commitment to these tenets, as well as to innovation that focuses on our patients and customers and to our involvement in shaping the industry of the future alongside the cannabis community as a whole.

Education

• United States Military Academy at West Point

  Bachelor of Science - BS

• University of Virginia

  Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership