Don Flanagan

CEO and Co-founder

Don is a veteran entrepreneur with 25 years of experience in sales and marketing with Fortune 100 and tech companies like Verizon, Coca Cola, and Yodle. He holds an undergraduate degree from Duke University and an MBA from Arizona State University.

For Don, every entrepreneurial venture has always centered around the customer. He believes the key to finding success is adding value to your customers’ lives. This philosophy shines through in everything Don brings to the table at Cool Blue Distribution. He’s often described as a leader with abounding energy and integrity. 

Don founded Cool Blue Distribution because he wants to bring the same efficiency, quality, and choice that we have come to demand (if not expect) from mainstream wholesale distribution to the burgeoning cannabis industry.

Off the clock, you can find Don spending time with his wife and two daughters—and when he needs a break, at his local watering hole. Don will have you know that he’s mastered fast forwarding through commercials without having to rewind to catch the show’s re-entry. When he’s not tackling those astounding feats, the majority of his time is spent brainstorming ways to make his customers laugh, make them think, and make them money. On the good days, a bit of all three.