Chris Vaughn

Chris Vaughn is a serial-entrepreneur and recognized leader in building tech, beverage alcohol, cannabis, logistics and CPG companies. He’s the Founder & CEO of Saucey, one of the largest last-mile logistics and delivery platforms for beverage-alcohol in the U.S. He is also the Founder & CEO of Emjay, one of the leading cannabis platforms in the U.S., with operations across delivery, retail and cultivation. Both Saucey and Emjay have been awarded the top ranked platforms in their industries. Saucey operates in over 1,000+ cities serving millions of delivery customers annually. To be successful in both the cannabis and beverage alcohol industries, Vaughn has worked closely with regulators and legislators at both the community and state level to focus on initiatives that help drive the industries forward, as well provide more visibility into operations.

Formerly CEO & Founder of Jarvus, a mobile photo aggregation application acquired in 2012 by textPlus, where he was then Director of Marketing and Business Development for one of the largest mobile messaging apps in the world with over 70 million users.

Beyond his operations experience, he’s advised and worked with some of the largest and most category defining brands in the world, including: AB-InBev, Pernod Ricard, Mars, Universal Music, Tesco, Diageo, Bevmo, 7-Eleven and others. His work has been featured in Forbes, Inc, Entrepreneur, WSJ, New York Times, LA Times, Bloomberg, AdWeek and others.