Josh Wand
General Partner at ForceBrands
Santa Monica, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh Wand is a seasoned founder and venture partner with 16+ years building talent and go-to-market platforms for consumer brands, from BevForce to ForceBrands and PINATA. He combines deep beverage and CPG industry roots with a data-driven approach to freelance field staffing, having connected thousands of brands, agencies, and ambassadors through multi-sided marketplaces and mobile-first tooling. As General Partner at The Family Fund he pairs operational CEOs and founders with emerging consumer businesses, and his hands-on recruiting experience extends from executive search and board assembly to scalable digital job boards. Known for spotting organizational and people-architecture gaps, he translates relationship-led expertise into products that systematize hiring and field execution across food, beauty, wellness and cannabis.
16 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Hospitality Management, Bachelors, Hospitality Management at University of Nevada-Las Vegas
Github Skills (200)
language-model10
javascript10
html10
chatbot10
git-workflow10
bootstrap10
css10
sass10
chatgpt9
monitoring9
resize-images9
generative-ai9
ai9
gemini9
developer-tools9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
joshwand/onion-simulator
Aug 2024 - Jul 2025
What's the best way to dice an onion?
Contributions:1 PR, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
joshwand/notes_gcal
Apr 2010 - Jan 2011
Contributions:14 commits in 9 months
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