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Kyle Kazan

American businessman

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ20684326
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Kyle Kazan (born March 11, 1967) is an American businessman who is the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Glass House Brands Inc., a publicly traded cannabis company listed on the OTCQX market and Cboe Canada. He is also a founder and chairman of Beach Front Property Management, Inc. and co-founder and managing member of Beach Front Properties, LLC. Kazan has also served as a special education teacher at LAUSD and a police officer at the Torrance Police Department.

Early life and education

Kazan was born in 1967 in Inglewood, California to Richard and Anne Kazan. He was raised in the Palos Verdes peninsula and attended Palos Verdes High School from 1981 to 1985. Kazan then attended University of Southern California where he received his BA in history in 1990. While at USC, Kazan was recruited to play basketball from 1987 to 1990 as both a point guard and shooting guard by future Hall of Fame coach George Raveling.

Career

After graduating from USC in 1990, Kazan became a special education teacher at LAUSD in 1991. Four years later, Kazan served in the patrol division of the Torrance Police Department with collateral assignments and training in gang enforcement and drugs recognition and eradication until 1999. Throughout his tenure, he made arrests mainly for methamphetamine and heroin, with one cannabis arrest as a secondary charge to methamphetamine.

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“Kyle Kazan” enters the record as american businessman. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Kyle, Kazan and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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