Kevin Pattah Kevin Pattah honed his entrepreneurial skills working in his family’s grocery and real estate businesses in West Bloomfield, Michigan, and started working in the state’s burgeoning medical cannabis industry in 2010.
In an industry where eight years feels like a lifetime, Pattah went from an entry level position to opening his own shop with the launch of Mango Cannabis in Oklahoma in 2018. And over the course of the next seven years, he would propel Mango to become one of the dominant retail brands in the Southwest, with eight shops in Oklahoma and one in New Mexico.
The company has continued its national expansion with new stores in Michigan and New York, and plans to keep building the retail brand, with sights on new shops in New Mexico, Michigan and New York later this year and a launch in New Jersey in the near future.
“Mango has always been about more than selling cannabis,” Pattah says. “It’s about building a modern retail brand that connects with real people in real communities. We’re proud to be one of the few multi-state operators that’s still privately held and founder-led.
Pattah says he believes the company’s secret sauce is its leadership, particularly when it comes to succeeding in an oversaturated market like Oklahoma.
“I think that the combination of the right leadership with the right work culture and the best processes is what separates us from everyone else in these highly competitive markets,” he says.