Andrew Hard

Chief Executive Officer, Founder

With more than a dozen years of experience as an investigative journalist, Andrew Hard has a passion for strategic communications and helping clients achieve national and international exposure for their products, brands and messages. Hard spent nearly a decade at FOX and FOXNews.com, and has won two prestigious NEAL Awards for his work at Corporate Counsel magazine. Working as FOXNews.com’s Front Page Editor, Hard helped the site achieve a period of unprecedented growth; in his tenure, Hard was responsible for doubling site traffic from 20 to 40 million hits a day, and driving it to a record 80 million page views for the month of October.

Now a global spokesperson for the legitimate cannabis industry, Mr. Hard is proud to serve as CMW Media’s CEO, which already has a track record of demonstrated success for clients such as KannaLife Sciences, Axim Biotech and Medical Marijuana, Inc. Before joining CMW, Mr. Hard was the Director of Marketing at ForwardMetrics and Social Media and Communications Manager at Directed. Hard holds a journalism degree from NYU.