Steven B. Silva

Founder / CEO

Steven Silva, Founder and CEO of SB SILVA, has over 14 years of industry experience and is now considered one of the most influential consultants in the cannabis industry. To date, Steven’s consulting experience exceeds 7,000,000 square feet of indoor and high-end greenhouse cultivation, extraction, and edible manufacturing developments from top companies and brands in the cannabis industry across 14 states and 4 countries.

While graduating Dean's List at Sonoma State University, Silva managed and grew a leading hydroponics retail store in a mature Northern California market. These early years are the core of Steven's robust foundation of cultivation and industry expertise - developed from industry veterans. This unique and diverse skill set focused on design, engineering and cutting-edge equipment selections has allowed him to design some of the largest and most productive cannabis businesses today in the global cannabis industry.

Silva has been cultivating cannabis for 14 years. In 2019, he leveraged his operational experience to participate in a profitable 15-acre premium smokable hemp flower cultivation project, where he was directly involved in the design and hands-on management of the cultivation, harvesting, transportation, drying, storage, trimming, QC, packaging, and sales.

Steven was the Vice President and Co-Founder of Cultivation Efficiency Systems (CES) from 2016 to 2020. CES is a specialized mechanical engineering design and equipment rep firm for semi-custom mechanical equipment known to design cannabis facilities with the most environmentally sustainable cultivation infrastructure on the market today.

Silva reaches the masses in the industry by hosting popular educational videos for Monster Gardens, a leading E-commerce hydroponics retailer, where he also serves as a Board Member and Partner. Steven acts as current COO of Full Spectrum Advisors - a crop management and consulting business with a proprietary SOP for maximizing productivity with crop steering and automation. Silva is also the Co-Founder and President of Mollitiam NJ, LLC - a licensed indoor cultivation and manufacturing business in New Jersey.