Founder & CEO
Chris Mayer is a serial manufacturing entrepreneur, mechanical engineer, and pioneer in commercial controlled-environment agriculture (CEA) infrastructure. Prior to founding CM Horticulture, Chris founded Innovative Growers Equipment (IGE), scaling it into one of North America’s premier commercial cultivation rack and bench manufacturers before successfully exiting the company to Hydrofarm.
In addition to leading CM Horticulture, Chris serves as CEO of CM Fabrication (cm-metals.com), a precision OEM metal manufacturing facility in Sycamore, Illinois, and Co-CEO of publicly traded Polar Power, Inc. (NASDAQ: POLA). At CM Horticulture, Chris combines direct-from-factory fabrication with decades of structural engineering experience to deliver heavy-duty commercial vertical grow racks and rolling grow benches built for high-yield commercial facilities.