Jason Ambrosino, born on April 11, 1982, in Gloversville, NY, is a decorated retired military officer who dedicated a decade to the U.S. Army, earning a Bronze Star in Iraq. Following his honorable discharge, Jason embarked on a successful entrepreneurial journey, establishing multiple ventures in the cannabis industry. He is the founder and owner of Veterans Holdings, a licensed NYS cannabis processing and manufacturing facility, Veterans Hemp Market, a hemp and CBD company, and American Veteran Enterprise Team LLC, a procurement and logistics company. His brands, including New York Honey, Space Buds, and Veterans Choice Creations, are known for their quality and innovation.

Jason's commitment to his community and his fellow veterans is evident through his work. He has created brands that not only deliver exceptional products but also support veteran groups and local economies. As a 100% Service Disabled Combat Veteran, Jason brings a unique perspective and dedication to his businesses, emphasizing living wages, full benefits, and a strong sense of community.

In addition to his business acumen, Jason is a family man, deeply committed to his wife Sonja, who is the COO of Veterans Holdings, and their young son Soren. The Ambrosino family has a rich history in Gloversville, with roots that span over a century.

 Jason’s journey from a decorated military career to a thriving entrepreneur showcases his resilience, leadership, and unwavering dedication to making a positive impact.

www.veteranschoicecreations.com

www.newyorkhoneyvapes.com

@veteranschoicecreations

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Max Majot is a cannabis cultivation authority who excels at project and infrastructure development and management. His command of grow techniques and cultivation site idiosyncrasies ensures that Royal Queen Seeds (RQS) maintains a high level of quality and consistently delivers elite products across all of its markets. Max also collaborates closely with the research and development team that drives the ever-expanding RQS seed and strain library, and uses his knowledge of supply chain logistics to efficiently scale company expansion. A teacher at heart, Max enjoys visiting RQS farms to advise on best practices.

Max grew up in New Caledonia and now resides in Lyon, France. He studied international commerce and earned his master’s degree in logistics and supply chain management from RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. An avid cook and foodie, Max also likes to spend time with his dogs and travel the globe.

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David Kostiner and Robbie Schneider are the driving forces behind Lumenary, a company at the forefront of cannabis technology and innovation.

David Kostiner is a multifaceted entrepreneur and legal expert with a rich background in both the music and legal industries. He began his career as a professional drummer and member of the Dreamworks artist Creeper Lagoon. Driven by his passion for law, David transitioned to studying and practicing entertainment law, becoming the managing partner of Counsel LLP since 2009, and sharing his expertise as a law professor at UC San Francisco School of Law. A serial entrepreneur, David has co-founded several startups, including the Independent Online Distribution Alliance, and has collaborated with industry figures like Black Eyed Peas member Apl.de.ap, an investor in Lumenary. His dedication to representing artists and his passion for cannabis innovation led him to co-found Lumenary, where he supports the development of cutting-edge technology like the Beam laser vaporizer.

Robbie Schneider, Lumenary's Inventor and CTO, is an artist and musician with a deep passion for technology. He has spent the majority of his life immersed in the cannabis industry, mastering the art of growing, vending, and extracting. With the help of a talented team of engineers, Robbie has dedicated the past decade to creating the finest cannabis device they could envision. The Beam, a product of this dream, is a testament to Robbie's commitment to blending artistry with technological innovation, making a significant impact in the cannabis industry.

Together, David Kostiner and Robbie Schneider have combined their unique talents and experiences to push the boundaries of cannabis technology, leading Lumenary in its mission to revolutionize the industry with the Beam laser vaporizer.

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Harrison Bard is an accomplished entrepreneur, having started multiple companies in the eCommerce space. His first business, an avant-garde trophy company, was started during college, and has worked with many Fortune 500 companies including Mcdonald's, Facebook, Yelp, Zappos, Wholefoods, and UPS.

Upon graduating from the Kenan Flagler Business School at The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, Harrison worked for Amazon, managing the great Japanese power tool company Makita, as well as other key accounts in the power tools category for Amazon retail.

Most recently, Harrison co-founded Custom Cones USA, which is the leading ancillary company in the pre-roll space. Through Custom Cones USA, Harrison has worked with publicly traded LPs and MSOs, leading U.S brands, and companies of every size in between.

His expertise in every facet of the Pre-Roll sector, from paper science, to pre-roll manufacturing technology and techniques, to a deep understanding of packaging and compliance regulations, has allowed Custom Cones USA to help create new products, scale brands, and bring more consistency to the pre-roll sector of the industry.

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Tracey Lancaster Miller is the Executive Vice President, founding member and owner-operator of Peake ReLeaf, a cannabis dispensary in Rockville, Maryland. She has been appointed by the Governor to the state’s Advisory Board for Medical and Adult Use Cannabis and is also the Past President of the Maryland Dispensary Association (MDDA), the professional trade association in Maryland representing dispensaries.

Born and raised in Maryland, she has been working in the cannabis industry for 15 years, gaining her initial experience in Colorado with licensee operations and compliance before founding Peake ReLeaf in her home state with her two business partners in 2015.

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David Zelinger, the founder and Managing Partner of Canis Major Partners (CMP), brings nearly 20 years of experience in global investment banking and fintech. He began his career managing credit derivatives and global USD swap trading, then transitioned to fintech in 2012, taking on leadership roles at various startups and multinational firms, where he drove significant growth and innovation.

In 2020, David founded Canis Major Partners, focusing on delivering innovative cannabis products and services in New York and beyond. CMP is well-positioned to meet the needs of the diverse and energetic New York City market. Under David's leadership, CMP has rapidly expanded, leveraging unique relationships and technology platforms to stay ahead of market trends.

David's vision for CMP includes launching a range of brands, from luxury cannabis products to unique offerings like Cannastrology, Brooklyn Bud Company, and Get Chai Gummies. CMP's innovative Tap4Token platform ensures product authenticity and enhances customer engagement. By centralizing brand relationships and maintaining full ownership of client data, CMP can offer customized and high-quality cannabis experiences to New Yorkers.

David is dedicated to building the relationships and infrastructure needed to support a diverse portfolio of brands and products in the fast-growing NY adult-use cannabis market. He lives in Long Beach, NY, and is the proud father of three.

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@klikpass

@citytreesofficial

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Alexandra Chong is the CEO & Co-Founder of JACANA, Jamaica’s leading wellness brand, is committed to bringing plant-based solutions to the forefront of holistic wellness. Founded in 2018, the company focuses on harnessing the inherent powers of plants to create therapeutic experiences for the mind, body, and spirit. With a strong focus on provenance and sustainability, JACANA cultivates, develops, and distributes Jamaican-grown botanicals, both domestically and internationally. Prior to JACANA, Alexandra founded Lulu, an innovative top-10 app for young women. In addition, Alexandra sits on the Advisory Board of MedShr, the world’s largest online network for doctors to connect and share data, served on the board of Elvie, a pioneering women’s consumer health technology business, and also represents Jamaica at the Global Blockchain Business Council. Alexandra is a proud Jamaican, having played tennis for Jamaica at the Federation Cup and Central American & Caribbean Games.

https://jacana.life

https://jacanawellness.com

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Pankaj is a seasoned executive with a remarkable track record of driving growth and innovation across various sectors, including technology, cybersecurity, compliance, and SaaS. He has held key leadership positions in notable companies like McAfee, Compliance Online, and MentorCloud, where he demonstrated his ability to scale businesses, drive revenue growth, and achieve successful exits. Pankaj's strategic leadership has been pivotal in transforming struggling businesses into thriving enterprises, earning him recognition through prestigious awards and accolades. Beyond his executive roles, Pankaj is deeply involved in mentoring and advisory work, guiding numerous founders and startups to success. With a solid academic background and a passion for fostering the next generation of business leaders, Pankaj brings a wealth of experience and expertise to Renaissance Park Corporation as its President & CEO. His strategic acumen, operational excellence, and mentoring prowess position him as a valuable asset in navigating today's dynamic business landscape.

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Kyle Loucks is the Founder and CEO of RollPros, an automation company revolutionizing the cannabis industry with its cutting-edge TruRoll technology, which replicates the precision of hand-rolled premium joints on a large scale.

Before establishing RollPros, Kyle held various leadership positions in engineering and technology at companies ranging from pioneering medical device startups to industry giants like Hewlett-Packard and Georgia Pacific. Notably, he contributed to the development of optical hardware for Facebook's Oculus VR system.

Recognizing the inconsistency and low quality associated with traditional pre-roll production methods, Kyle seized the opportunity for innovation and automation. Since 2020, he and the RollPros team have empowered cannabis businesses with state-of-the-art technology, enabling them to craft top-tier pre-rolls that foster customer loyalty, streamline operations, and eliminate manual labor.

Kyle earned a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Washington State University in Pullman, WA.

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Colton Keluche is a dynamic marketing and communications expert renowned for his prowess in high-growth enterprises. With a natural flair for innovation, he seamlessly navigates the complexities of both startup ventures and Fortune 500 corporations. Rooted in his core are robust communication skills and adept project management abilities, complemented by a rich background in cross-cultural advisory and startup go-to-market strategies. Over the past eight years, Keluche has held numerous senior roles in cannabis consulting and marketing, spanning product development, technology integration, and cutting-edge advertising campaigns. His unwavering dedication lies in empowering and championing the trailblazers of this dynamic industry, driving his passion to new heights.

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When the pandemic struck, it presented an opportunity for Guillermo to reassess his priorities. Like many others, he saw it as a blank slate to reflect on what truly mattered. As events unfolded, he felt compelled to adopt a more preventative approach to health, well-being, and his response to the pandemic. However, he found himself constrained by corporate and government restrictions and mandates.

During this transformative phase, a significant connection was made with the cannabis industry. Guillermo was drawn to an industry that empowers people to embrace their own freedom in choosing unconventional medicine. This newfound passion led him to make the decision to become an active
participant in this industry, as he recognized the potential for positive impact and the opportunity to be part of a movement promoting individual autonomy and well-being. Using his accounting and financial background, Guillermo advocates for the cannabis industry as a Virtual CFO, helping guide cannabis operators down the path of profitability through dynamic forecasting, understanding KPIs, and profit-focused accounting.

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https://anderscpa.com/virtual-cfo-cannabis/

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In this podcast episode, Bruce Eckfeldt chats with Matha Figaro, CEO of ButACake, a cannabis edibles company. Matha shares her journey from culinary arts to cannabis entrepreneurship, highlighting her motivation for entering the cannabis space and her experience as one of the first black women to obtain a cannabis license in New Jersey.

She discusses how her passion for baking led her to create her own business, initially selling butter cakes at farmers' markets before transitioning to edibles. Matha candidly talks about the challenges of incorporating cannabis into her products and navigating the licensing process in New Jersey, including financial burdens and regulatory hurdles.

Matha gives insights into her product lineup, which includes items like peanut butter and jelly brownies, oatmeal raisin cookies, and oral dissolvable strips. She also discusses her venture into beverages, offering hibiscus and peach elixirs in Delaware's medical market.

Throughout the conversation, Matha emphasizes her commitment to providing affordable cannabis products for diverse demographics and advocates for social equity in the industry. She calls for more collaboration among independent operators to drive industry-wide changes.

The episode wraps up with Matha's excitement about launching New Jersey's first legal pot brownie and where listeners can purchase her products. Overall, Matha's journey offers valuable insights into the challenges and opportunities in the cannabis industry and her vision for the future of her business.

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In this podcast episode, we dive into the remarkable journey of Christine De La Rosa, CEO and National Co-Founder of The People's Ecosystem and Founder & Fund Manager of The People’s Group. Christine's impact in the cannabis industry is undeniable, with accolades such as being named to the MGO 2024 Cannabis 50 List and Forbes Cannabis50 list. She brings a wealth of experience, having spent over 20 years in technology before transitioning to cannabis.

Christine's journey to the cannabis industry is deeply personal. After facing life-threatening complications from undiagnosed Lupus during her tech career, she discovered the healing power of cannabis. This experience led her to co-found The People’s Dispensary in 2016, aiming to provide access to cannabis for those in need. Today, she continues to expand her footprint in the industry, advocating for social equity and access to capital.

As a thought leader and advisor, Christine's influence extends beyond her businesses. She's actively involved in shaping cannabis regulations at both state and federal levels, serving on advisory boards and committees. Her commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion is evident in her work, as she strives to create opportunities for marginalized communities in the cannabis space.

Christine's journey exemplifies resilience, entrepreneurship, and advocacy. From her early career in technology to her impactful work in cannabis, she continues to inspire others with her passion and dedication to making a difference. Join us as we explore Christine's journey and the future of the cannabis industry through her perspective.

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https://www.linkedin.com/company/thepeoplesecosystem

Twitter: @peoplescannabis
Instagram & Facebook: @thepeoples.ecosystem

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In this episode of "Thinking Outside the Bud," Bruce Eckfeldt welcomes Darren Gleeman, a financial expert renowned for his ESOP knowledge and financial acumen. Darren serves as the Managing Partner of MBO Ventures, bringing with him a wealth of experience in various ventures, including e-Coupons, GMD Trading, and GB Trading. He is highly regarded for his expertise in ESOPs and is recognized as a prolific angel investor, with notable investments in companies such as Screaming Media (NASDAQ: SCRM), Blackboard (NASDAQ: BBBB), Social Radar, ClassEdu, and Accelerant Manufacturing.

Darren's journey in finance began at Wharton, where he developed a strong foundation in quantitative modeling and the scientific method. He founded a firm that pioneered high-frequency trading platforms, demonstrating his ability to leverage technology in the financial sector.

Currently, as the managing partner of MBO Ventures, Darren leads a team that specializes in ESOP investment banking. MBO Ventures offers expertise in ESOPs and can provide capital investments alongside company owners and management teams. The firm assists in implementing various exit strategies, including family succession, management buy-outs, or complete sales to employees, ensuring tailored solutions for each client's needs.

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www.mboventures.com

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In this episode of Thinking Outside the Bud, Bruce Eckfeldt hosts Filip Luneski, VP Head of Marketing at Lucid Green, a company revolutionizing the cannabis industry through data and supply chain organization. Bruce and Filip discuss the intricate landscape of the cannabis industry, including state-by-state regulations and challenges in brand development and consumer engagement. Filip shares his transition from the consumer packaged goods (CPG) sector to cannabis, emphasizing Lucid Green's groundbreaking technology, such as Lucid IDs—unique QR codes transforming the industry. These Lucid IDs enable brands to enhance production efficiency, monitor inventory in real-time, and directly engage with consumers via the Lucid Connect platform. With a commitment to transparency and authenticity, Lucid Green is leading the charge towards a more interconnected and transparent cannabis market. Join Bruce and Filip as they explore the future of cannabis and the pivotal role of technology in catalyzing industry-wide transformation.

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Bryan Bergman is an innovative and forward-thinking business attorney that focuses on monetization and deal making and helping clients at all stages of their business lifecycle with a laser focus on helping businesses be authentically successful and maximize their efforts in every area. He brings strategic expertise and legal services to complex business transactions endemic to fortune 500 companies. He also speaks regularly on industry-related legal and business topics and educates operators and other professionals, including attorneys and accountants. His role as a civil litigator for over fifteen years further informs and assists him when navigating potential litigation issues for every type of entrepreneurial venture. He is an officer of the Los Angeles County Bar Association's Cannabis Section and has also served on multiple cannabis trade organization boards as a director. He regularly teaches continuing legal education and classes to professionals and operators on a variety of issues affecting the cannabis industry.

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In this podcast episode, Bruce Eckfeldt interviews Izzy Kirsh, the founder and CEO of mode, a company focusing on innovative cannabis consumption devices. They discuss various aspects of the cannabis industry, including consumer trends, product innovation, and challenges in the market.

Izzy begins by sharing his background, mentioning his experience in product design and technology startups. He explains how his interest in cannabis was sparked by personal experiences with chronic pain and the need for more precise dosing options.

The conversation delves into Mode's journey, from ideation to product development. Izzy highlights the challenges they faced in securing funding due to the cannabis industry's unique regulatory landscape. Despite these hurdles, mode developed a sophisticated dosing platform integrated with a mobile app, aiming to provide users with personalized cannabis consumption experiences.

They discuss the design choices behind Mode's product, emphasizing its user-friendly interface and premium aesthetics. Izzy explains the importance of catering to both medical patients and recreational users while maintaining a health and wellness-focused brand image.

They also touch on the data collection aspect of mode's platform, which gathers anonymized user data to improve dosing recommendations and product efficacy. Izzy outlines their vision for expanding internationally and potentially diversifying into related industries such as nicotine cessation and psychedelics.

Finally, Izzy reflects on the challenges of marketing cannabis-related products in a restrictive online environment and expresses optimism about the industry's future as regulatory barriers evolve.

Overall, the conversation provides insights into mode's innovative approach to cannabis consumption and its potential to shape the future of the industry.

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In this engaging episode of "Thinking Outside the Bud," Bruce Eckfeldt leads a captivating conversation with Paul Weaver, Director, Head of Cannabis at the Boston Beer Company. The episode centers on the cannabis beverage industry, exploring regulatory changes, market intricacies, and challenges inherent in entering the cannabis sector. Weaver shares his professional journey from the beer industry to leading product innovation at Canopy Growth Corp, eventually spearheading a cannabis R&D department for the Boston Beer Company and successfully launching their cannabis-infused iced tea, Tea Pot.

Weaver emphasizes the social acceptability and powerful branding impact of cannabis drinks, incorporating personal anecdotes, insights into industry evolution, and considerations of potential competition with alcohol. The conversation covers critical factors such as flavor and potency stability, addressing both challenges and opportunities in crafting appealing cannabis products. Delving into disparities in cannabis and alcohol consumption, the dialogue explores onset times, potency variations, and the importance of responsible use.

The episode provides valuable insights into the cannabis beverage market, highlighting the rise of rare cannabinoids and the significance of low-dose products. Weaver and Eckfeldt unravel the intricacies of consumer education, particularly regarding onset times and moderation, drawing parallels between public consumption in the cannabis and alcohol industries. The discussion concludes with a focus on branding strategies, where Weaver emphasizes the necessity of exceptional products and discusses challenges stemming from cannabis marketing restrictions. He introduces a double-sale approach to foster brand loyalty by targeting both consumers and budtenders. In its entirety, the episode offers a thorough exploration of the dynamic landscape of the cannabis beverage market, providing considerations for navigating regulations and expanding into diverse markets.

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In this episode of "Thinking Outside the Bud," Bruce Eckfeldt, the host, welcomes two guests, Andrew DeAngelo, founder of Andrew DeAngelo Consulting, and Christopher Peak, SVP of Retail Development at ACV Consulting. The discussion revolves around the challenges and innovations in the cannabis industry, particularly focusing on new products and solutions. Andrew, with his background in the vertically integrated cannabis company, Harbor Side, highlights the industry's crossroads and the influx of professionals from diverse backgrounds. Christopher, drawing from his extensive experience in retail development for Universal Studios and Apple, discusses the significance of branding in creating a meaningful and honest connection with consumers. The conversation touches upon the current state of the cannabis industry, the urgency of branding, and the need for sophisticated marketing solutions. Both guests share insights into their advisory business, emphasizing the importance of branding for cannabis companies to survive and thrive in a competitive market. The episode provides a glimpse into the evolving landscape of the cannabis industry and the pivotal role that branding plays in its development.

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In this episode of Thinking Outside the Bud, your host Bruce Eckfeldt welcomes Debi Wimberley, the visionary founder of Effective Cannabis Newsletter. Debi, a resilient advocate for medical cannabis education, shares her journey of overcoming chronic pain and lung disease. With a background in medical technology, oncology, and hospital labs, she seized control of her well-being. The episode delves into how Debi, equipped with certifications in Medical Cannabis applications and patient care, is revolutionizing the discourse around medical cannabis. Collaborating with experts in cannabis education, health coaching, and medical professionals, Debi centralizes high-quality, accurate, and fact-based education on her innovative platform, Effective Cannabis. The conversation touches on challenges in the cannabis industry, the need for accurate information, and the importance of education. Join Bruce and Debi in this insightful discussion on the impactful present and promising future of medical cannabis.

Debi Wimberley, the visionary founder of Effective Cannabis Newsletter, is an unwavering advocate for medical cannabis education and the empowerment of individuals in the pursuit of healthy living. Overcoming decades of chronic pain and lung disease, Debi's resilience and hope endured in the face of discouraging medical prognoses. Equipped with a background in medical technology, oncology, and hospital labs, she assumed control of her own well-being. Debi's adaptability and agility led her to secure certifications in Medical Cannabis applications, Patient Care, and professional communication, specializing in cannabis.
A genuine trailblazer, Debi is committed to revolutionizing the discourse surrounding medical cannabis. Collaborating with certified cannabis educators, health coaches, scientists, and medical professionals, she endeavors to centralize high-quality, accurate, and fact-based education. As the Founder of Effective Cannabis, an innovative website she is dedicated to studying, learning, and teaching how cannabis positively influences health outcomes, Debi spearheads the advancement of this crucial dialogue. Her impact extends beyond digital platforms, as evidenced by her compelling public speaking engagements, including an impactful TEDx talk.

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In this episode of "Thinking Outside the Bud," Bruce Eckfeldt welcomes Kris Walker, President and Co-founder at Hoodie, as the special guest. Together, they navigate the intriguing intersection of cannabis and data analytics, delving into the evolving landscape of the cannabis industry. The conversation explores how data insights are transforming various aspects of cannabis businesses, from product sales to strategic decision-making. Kris Walker, with a wealth of experience in data analytics and technology, sheds light on the unique challenges and opportunities within the cannabis space. The episode unveils how Hoodie is pioneering a revolution by making data as comfortable as a favorite hoodie, empowering businesses to thrive in the dynamic cannabis market. Join them for an insightful discussion on the current and future dynamics of cannabis and data.

Kris Walker is the Co-Founder, President, and Chief Commercial Officer at Hoodie. Hoodie tracks over 3.5MM daily unique offers in over 10,500+ dispensaries in the US & Canada, making Hoodie the largest and most impactful platform for next day insights into leading sales metrics such as cannabis pricing, promotion, stocking status, distribution and share of shelf. Hoodie combines this unparalleled coverage with first-of-its-kind, next-day insights so businesses can access market trends and data within hours. Kris leads Hoodie’s customer acquisition and customer experience efforts — overseeing sales, marketing, analytics, product strategy, and the delivery of successful client outcomes.

Prior to Hoodie, Kris was Senior Vice President and Global Client Leader for Nielsen, the S&P 500 firm and global leader in audience insights, data, and analytics that shape the future of media. At Nielsen, Kris drove product innovation, leveraging Nielsen's data marketplace and broad analytics capabilities to deliver exceptional value for clients' business performance worldwide. Kris is also the co-founder of Big Chalk Analytics, a technology-enabled analytics consulting firm that connects progressive companies with world-class analytics, insights, and talent — including individuals, teams, and suppliers through a proprietary talent network aligned with the most important analytics and insights issues facing the CPG/FMCG industry.

Kris is a passionate global executive with proven experience in transforming start-up and turnaround businesses. He’s awarded and recognized for leading through innovation, building enviable teams and clients, and leveraging strategic and analytical skills to consistently exceed revenue and EBITDA targets. Kris holds a Bachelors of Science in Commerce with Concentrations in Marketing and International Business from the University of Virginia.

https://www.hoodieanalytics.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/hoodieanalytics/

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Join us as Bruce explores the dynamics of the hemp and cannabis industry with Dan Huerter, CEO of Pure Spectrum CBD, unraveling the complexities of regulations, business challenges, and the transformative power of CBD in health and wellness.

Daniel Huerter brings his entrepreneurial spirit back to the company he co-founded in 2016.

After graduating from University of Kansas in 2012, Huerter pursued a successful career with a Fortune 500 software company. He quickly gained the trust of high-level clients in the public sector like SMU, Cal Poly, and even The United States Senate.

His drive and passion to create something he believed in, helped push him to take the risk and leave that career behind - rolling the dice with a cannabis startup in the early days of the CBD boom.

Huerter would become the first person to ever speak about the benefits of CBD for athletes on national television, highlighting the company’s partnership with The CrossFit Games on CBS Sports in 2018. He would continue to help Pure Spectrum grow and achieve history - making milestones, before stepping down as COO in 2019.

After co-founding and helping run a hemp distribution company from 2019 to 2021. Huerter answered the call from his first company asking him to return and take over as CEO.

If Daniel isn’t at his desk at Pure Spectrum's headquarters, you might be able to find him at the music studio he co-founded, volunteering for organizations that help young entrepreneurs or crushing a workout before spending time with his family, girlfriend, and dog.

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Bingham is a seasoned executive with more than 30 years of data analytics and market research experience in the natural products, healthcare and nutrition industries. He has a deep understanding of the global consumer marketplace from both the investor and technology-based service provider perspective, with firsthand experience in the U.S. and internationally.

A Harvard MBA, former McKinsey consultant and chartered banker, Bingham has enjoyed a successful career as a serial entrepreneur with a proven track record in creating successful businesses that drive growth and impact. Before BDSA, he co-founded Realize Therapeutics, a health, wellness and longevity business, and Cutting Edge Cultures, a specialty microbiome company. His other ventures include Nutrition Business Journal, Health Business Partners, Health Strategies Consulting and the NBJ Summit.

BDSA Website: https://bdsa.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/roybingham/
BDSA LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bdsa-insights/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Roybingham
BDSA Twitter: https://twitter.com/BDSA_Insights

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https://www.sandslane.com/
https://harmonycraftbeverages.com/

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In this episode, we dive deep into the world of cannabis financing and lending with our special guest, Rob Sechrist, the Co-Founding President of Pelorus Capital Group. Join us as we explore Rob's journey into the cannabis lending industry, how his company has evolved to become a leading player, and the unique insights they've gained through data-driven strategies. Discover the challenges and opportunities in this dynamic market, and gain valuable knowledge about cannabis investment, market evolution, and the potential impact of federal legalization. If you're interested in the intersection of finance and cannabis, this episode is a must-listen.
 

Rob is a co-founder and president of Pelorus Equity Group (“Pelorus”), the leading provider of value-add bridge commercial real estate loans to cannabis businesses and owners with cannabis-related real estate and Pelorus Fund, a private mortgage real estate investment trust (“mREIT”).

Rob brings nearly 23 years of experience in the real estate finance industry. Since the formation of Pelorus in 2010, he has raised more than $250MM in secured real estate transactions. Rob’s primary role at Pelorus as a manager of the Pelorus Fund, development of strategic alliances with both private and institutional investors, formation of equity partnerships, and coordinating the company’s growth into new markets. Today, Pelorus raises tens of million a month through the company’s investors and equity partnerships. Prior to joining the real estate industry, Rob was the founder and CEO of an international action sports manufacturing company. He has also managed medical product sales in Southern California as well as trained the sales reps nationally for an orthopedic manufacturer.

Rob earned a BA from San Diego State University. Licenses include California Real Estate Broker’s License, NMLS License and designated expert witness as an asset based lender. He is also the CEO of JRS Capital USA, Inc., a real estate consulting firm based out of Newport Beach, California.

https://pelorusequitygroup.com/
Instagram: @robsechrist
Twitter: @PelorusEquityGr
Twitter: @m5_rob

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Tune in to this episode with George Breiwa, the founder of DynaVap, as we dive into the world of cannabis, product development, and the innovative technology behind DynaVap's cannabis consumption devices. George shares his journey into the cannabis industry and how he came up with the idea for DynaVap, emphasizing the importance of finding a better way to consume cannabis without the harmful byproducts of smoking. Exploring the science behind thermal extraction and how DynaVap's products offer control, flavor, and a range of effects. This episode also touches on the ritualistic aspects of cannabis consumption and how anticipation plays a significant role in the experience.
 

George was born in rural Wisconsin and was an early graduate from Lego university at the age of 6. In 7th grade lasers came into focus and with the help of a few teachers convinced the school to purchase its first laser. The drive to invent and solve problems has been a lifelong passion.
Now a serial entrepreneur, inventor with multiple patents across 14 countries, and the founder of DynaVap, LLC, a company with the mission to "Make Smoking History".
Under George's leadership, DynaVap has become one of the fastest-growing companies in the US, making the Inc. 5000 list 2 years running.
George is also a speaker on topics related to cannabis and enjoys sharing products and ideas with others.
When not physically working he may be found on one-wheeled vehicles.

https://www.dynavap.com/
Facebook & Instagram: @dynavap
YouTube: @Dynavapllc
@dynatography

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Ed Schmults, CEO of Statehouse Holdings, a major player in the cannabis industry shares his unconventional journey from Wall Street and outdoor clothing to becoming a leader in the cannabis world. He delves into the challenges and opportunities of the evolving California cannabis market, discussing the impact of the illicit market, brand strategies, customer segmentation, and more. With deep insights into the industry's nuances, Ed sheds light on the importance of focusing on customers, innovation, and building strategic relationships for success.

LinkedIn (Ed Schmults): https://www.linkedin.com/in/ed-schmults-89097/
LinkedIn (StateHouse Holdings): https://www.linkedin.com/company/statehouse-holdings/?trk=similar-pages

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As a management and business consultant, Charlene helps cannabis companies build the right organizational and operational structures to drive business success through strategic alignment, employee engagement, increased productivity, and reduced risk.

Prior to her career pivot to cannabis, she spent 25+ years in the health care industry working to solve healthcare inequities and improving the lives of others.

Charlene founded Elevate Beyond on the premise that everyone should have safe and legal access to plant medicine because she believes health care is human right, not a privilege.

As a trusted advisor in the cannabis industry Charlene continues to champion affordable and equitable care and thinks plant medicine will play a transformative role in our societies' health and wellness.

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/charleneestrada
Email: charlene@elevatebeyondconsulting.com
Website: www.elevatebeyondconsulting.com

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Kyle Moffitt is the CEO of STEM Cultivation. Kyle was raised on a farm in Ohio, studied architecture at MIT, and has been a cannabis user for most of his adult life. But, after spending the first 20 years of his career in software sales and marketing, he returned to his roots and started STEM in 2017, combining his passions for design, cannabis, and agriculture to create a scalable cultivation platform that applies the manufacturing ethos of efficiency, consistency, and predictability to commercial indoor growing. The result was the STEM Box, a ground-breaking solution to the fundamental production and economic challenges negatively impacting the cannabis supply chain.

https://www.stemcultivation.com/
kyle@stemcultivation.com

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Angela has over 25 years of experience in accounting, audit, fraud risk management and business process reengineering. She is not your typical number cruncher. She considers herself a business strategist. She looks beyond debits and credits by thinking outside the box and focusing on how the accounting function impacts the entire organization. She specializes in cannabis accounting and working with cannabis (plant-touching) businesses. She focuses on the specific pain points dispensaries, cultivation, and manufacturing businesses face and tailors her accounting and advisory services to address those specific areas.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/angelalbarrett/
https://www.instagram.com/angelalmays/
https://www.facebook.com/thebluntaccountant/
https://twitter.com/AngelaLMays

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After graduating from Humboldt State University in 2012 with dual degrees in English and Botany with a focus on Ethnobotany, Nate managed some of the first large scale medical grows and extraction labs in Northern California that fed the early So-Cal dispensary market.

As true operational legality remained in limbo, Nate left Northern CA and cultivated as a caregiver in Northern MI for several years, until he stepped away from cannabis, and build his first ‘legitimate' business: a music festival merchandise company, which sold lapel pins and apparel at events across the country.

During that time, I spent extensive time developing manufacturing relationships in China and domestically, and launched a second business based on retail product design, manufacture, and logistics, ultimately producing merchandise and packaging for entertainment industry clients ranging from Kim Kardashian to the NCAA.

As the cannabis market grew in legitimacy, Nate leveraged his relationships and staff to expanded his company's offering to include an array of packaging products for the cannabis industry. Several years later, CUSTOMPACKCO has expanded to offer a broad range of supply chain solutions to cannabis companies, including packaging development and production, branding, logistics and import, marketing support and promotional integrations.

Most recently, Nate opened the doors to his new full-scale processing facility in Northern Michigan, The Lab, which offers white label, co-packing, and distribution services to the legal market in the state. The Lab's goal is to create a true end-to-end service model in which cultivators can focus on doing what they do best, while The Lab does all the dirty work of processing, packaging, warehousing and distributing products

Outside of his core mission of brand building in regards to clients, Nate is a firm believer in worker's rights, worker's value, and using the industry as a tool to right some of the wrongs brought on by prohibition. The Lab employs felons, drug offenders, and those with large gaps in their work history. The company also continues to build a progressive workplace, including 4-day work weeks, industry leading pay rates, shared profits for completed projects, a hire-from-within policy, and 1 day of PTO earned per 15 days worked.

Aside from CUSTOMPACKCO and The Lab, Nate grows in living soil for personal rosin and flower, plays with legos, reads avidly, and travels as much as possible, especially to see Phish.

IG: @natesaysdoless
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathan-russell-5b2136113
www.CUSTOMPACKCO.com
www.TheLabMI.com
www.RoadTripSupply.co
www.Mikrodos.com

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Alex Boone is Managing Director of Botani. With 20+ years of experience at SWM International, Alex has led sales, marketing and product development teams for North American and international markets. In 2018, Alex was a part of the company’s entrance into the cannabis and hemp markets. Alex received his Bachelor of Arts in Management from Gettysburg College. To learn more, visit Botani.com.

https://botani.com
https://www.linkedin.com/company/botani-by-swm/
https://www.instagram.com/botani_intl/?hl=en
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-boone-1b2a8b13/

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Jeffrey is a cannabis attorney and legalization activist with over 25 years of experience starting, operating, advising, and selling businesses. He is a leader in promoting pro bono advocacy for the rights of those impacted by anti-cannabis enforcement in the United States. Jeffrey holds a JD from the University of North Carolina School of Law and a BA in Russian and East European Studies from the University of North Carolina.

https://www.420jurist.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/heavyj/

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Sundie Seefried is Founder and President/CEO of Safe Harbor Financial, the leading provider of reliable financing solutions to the cannabis industry.

A 39-year credit union industry veteran, Seefried was the former CEO of Partner Colorado Credit Union (PCCU). Established in 2015 by PCCU, Safe Harbor was formed to provide an unmet need – compliant banking and financial services to the rapidly growing U.S. cannabis industry. Seefried designed a full scope Cannabis Banking Program for PCCU known as the Safe Harbor program, which has withstood the scrutiny of 16 federal and state exams to date. Now in its 8th year, Safe Harbor has grown in excess of 600 accounts spanning 20 states, and processed over $14 billion in cannabis-related transactions.

Seefried worked with PCCU to fully decoupled Safe Harbor from the credit union as a separate entity in 2021 as it moved through the process to obtain a public company status listed on the NASDAQ. It was successfully listed on NASDAQ September 2022; allowing it access to capital markets and the ability to scale nationally.

Seefried regularly provides cannabis banking education and expertise to legislators, regulators, attorneys generals, state officials, and financial institutions. She is on a mission to normalize banking for the cannabis industry, while assisting law enforcement and federal agencies to be more effective at combating illicit activities and protecting the financial system.

To share her knowledge, Seefried authored the book ‘Navigating Safe Harbor – Cannabis Banking in Uncertain Times’ in 2016, as well as contributed a chapter on cannabis banking in the university textbook ‘The Politics of Marijuana: A New Paradigm’ by Timothy McGettigan.

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/safeharbor-financial/
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/SafeHarborFinancialLLC

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Making Gourmet Cannabis Approachable. As a veteran laboratory researcher and passionate cannabis advocate with a family background in food and hospitality, Peter is the founder of Cardoz Blended Gourmet, a unique cannabis and hemp company that looks to demystify cannabis cooking. He recently released the first line of hemp derived live resin infused culinary oils and was a competitor on America's Test Kitchen: The Next Generation Season 1.

https://www.cardozblendedgourmet.com/
https://www.instagram.com/pcardoz/
https://www.instagram.com/CardozBlendedGourmet/
https://www.tiktok.com/@pcardoz
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2asfdexhSrkeiWVY93sRVw
https://www.linkedin.com/in/pcardoz/

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Ben Burstein is LeafLink’s Strategist, helping manage industry research, mergers & acquisitions, and strategic partnerships for the company. He’s been featured as an industry expert both on-air (ABC, FOX, NPR) and through digital channels (Cannabis Business Times, MJBizDaily, St. Louis Business Journal, Santa Fe Reporter). Prior to LeafLink, he worked at Citi Equity Research and Tuatara Capital. Ben is a graduate of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjaminburstein/
https://www.instagram.com/leaflink_/?hl=en
https://www.linkedin.com/company/leaflink/
https://twitter.com/LeafLinkUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

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After closing his award-winning nightclub INSERT COIN(S), Chris founded RESET, a consulting firm focused on innovation in entertainment and nightlife in Las Vegas. He was asked to lend his operational insights into the development of regulations for consumption lounges in 2017. After five years of working with multiple jurisdictions, government officials, and local stakeholders, Nevada passed AB341 allowing for the development and operation of cannabis social-use lounges. Today, partnered with THRIVE CANNABIS MARKETPLACE, Chris looks to expand the reach of the cannabis industry with a food and beverage-driven entertainment venue attracting non-endemic markets from 40M tourists visiting Las Vegas annually.

www.reset.vegas
https://www.instagram.com/chrisofcoins/
https://twitter.com/ChrisOfCoins
https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-laporte-52471b52/

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Antonio Panella is the Co-Founder & CEO of Bleaum, a software company that develops a unique and customizable online ordering engine for retailers, wholesalers and distribution operations with various features such as app ordering, web ordering, kiosk, CRM and others.

http://www.bleaum.io
https://www.linkedin.com/company/bleaum
https://www.instagram.com/bleaumwithus
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Chris Walker is currently CEO and co-Founder of HyPAR.farm. As General Manager of Heliospectra he installed commercial and craft style facilities with LED and software from the plant sciences company out of Sweden. This is where Chris discovered the HyPAR technology and decided to not only join the team, but fund the patent. Chris has a background in commercializing cutting edge agriculture and biofuel based technologies. With a passion for clean tech and other climate crisis mitigating technologies, Chris sees his pursuit to commercialize HyPAR as globally critical to saving the the world. Chris views the overly consumptive energy waste that is currently status quo in indoor growing as short sighted driven by the pursuit to automate everything.

http://www.HyPAR.farm
https://www.linkedin.com/company/86905565/admin/

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Andrés Fajardo, CEO of Clever Leaves, has over 20 years of leadership and management experience. He has served as a director of the Clever Leaves board since December 2020 and as president since 2019, and in various other roles at the Company since its establishment in 2016. Prior to Clever Leaves, Fajardo was a founding partner of Mojo Ventures, CEO of IQ Outsourcing, and a principal member at Booz & Company. He obtained a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering and Economics from Los Andes University in Colombia.

https://cleverleaves.com/
Linkedin – https://www.linkedin.com/in/andres-fajardo-3581a5/
Clever Leaves Linked in – https://www.linkedin.com/company/clever-leaves/
Clever Leaves Twitter – https://twitter.com/clever_leaves

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Merril Gilbert is the co-founder and CEO of TraceTrust. After 25 years of experience counseling startups from concept to table or shelf in food and beverage, Merril joined the cannabis industry in 2015. Since then, she has guided innovators, disruptors, and refiners in bringing their ideas to life. Merril is a provocative thought leader in the future of food and cannabis consumable innovations. Her ability to bring together strategic, operational management and vision for daily operations establishes standards for safety, accuracy, credibility, and profitability. Merril is on the NCIA Risk Management and Insurance Committee, an Arcview member, founding member of Women Employed in Cannabis, advisor at MISTA, and board member at Slow Money NorCal, where she has spent the past five years mentoring entrepreneurs.

https://www.linkedin.com/company/tracetrust/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/merril-gilbert/

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Sean Yoder is the Co-founder of Aldertine Cannabis CFOs, providing world-class accounting management to the cannabis industry. He has more than 30 years of accounting experience, was a successful music industry entrepreneur in Los Angeles, and founded a successful non-canna accounting management firm in 2017. Sean grew up in Chico, CA, worked in the accounting department at Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., is a graduate of the California State University, Chico Center for Regional and Continuing Education certified bookkeeping program, and considered the late Joey Ramone a good friend. He has been an AIPB-certified bookkeeper since 2012 and a member of the Dope CFO VIP network since 2020. His experience in the cannabis industry stretches back nearly 30 years and he maintains strong ties to the legacy growers in rural Northern California’s Emerald Triangle with memberships in each county’s cannabis association.

https://www.aldertinegroup.com/
http://www.facebook.com/aldertinegroupInstagram
http://www.instagram.com/aldertinecannabiscfos/LinkedIn
http://www.linkedin.com/in/sean-yoder-cannabis-cfo/

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John Lykouretzos is a co-founder and CEO of FocusGrowth Asset Management, LP. (“FGAM”). Prior to FGAM, he was the founder and CIO of Hoplite Capital Management, a long/short equity hedge fund he launched in 2003 and grew to peak assets of $3.7 billion before returning capital to investors in 2019. Prior to Hoplite, John was an Analyst and Portfolio Manager at Viking Global Investors and worked as an Industrials Analyst at Tiger Management. John started his career as a Financial Analyst at Goldman Sachs in the Investment Banking Division & Principal Investment Area. John graduated from Yale University with a BA in Economics and International Studies. He is a Trustee of the Tiger Foundation, a Trustee and Chair of the Investment Committee for the American Museum of Natural History and is also a member of the Yale Development Council.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-t-lykouretzos-48b2b0182/
https://www.focusgrowth.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/focusgrowth-asset-management-lp/

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Ed Keating is a co-founder of Cannabiz Media and oversees the company’s data research and government relations efforts. He has spent his career working with and advising information companies in the compliance space. Ed has managed product, marketing, and sales while overseeing complex multijurisdictional product lines in the securities, corporate, UCC, safety, environmental, and human resource markets.

At Cannabiz Media, Ed enjoys the challenge of working with regulators across the globe as he and his team gather corporate, financial, and license information to track the people, products, and businesses in the cannabis economy.

Ed graduated from Hamilton College and received his MBA from the Kellogg School at Northwestern University.

www.cannabiz.media
ekeating@cannabiz.media
@cannabizmedia

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Joe Tierney is the founder & editor-in-chief of GentlemanToker.com, a DC-based cannabis blog that has followed the development of legalization there since 2016, after Congress blocked the city from implementing adult-use retail sales. Tierney's reputation as a staunch consumer advocate for craft cannabis and social equity in the marketplace led to Gentleman Toker becoming one of the most popular sites for brands entering the new gifting economy to advertise. These days, Tierney shares his opinions on the latest news and interviews guests across the cannabis, hemp, and psychedelic spaces on The Gentleman Toker Podcast.

www.GentlemanToker.com
https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/CBZBGKaZIwb
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-gentleman-toker-podcast/id1609644358
YouTube @gentlemantoker8959
Instagram @gentleman.toker
Twitter @gentleman_toker
TikTok @gentlemantoker

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David loves cannabis, music, the natural sciences, and using data to solve problems.
Jointly’s cannabis discovery platform benefits consumers and retailers with:
-a mobile app that helps consumers reach their goals with cannabis, by providing them with a framework for success via purposeful consumption
-software that helps budtenders sell more cannabis to more people more easily, by arming them with goal-specific product performance data

David is the creator and author of the Theory of Purposeful Cannabis Consumption, in which he dismantles the stigma against cannabis consumption using Jointly’s unique data.

Before Jointly, Kooi built the most successful eCommerce and brick & mortar bicycle retailer in southern California by combining his background in business operations with his passion for nature and endurance sports. He later sold it to Trek.

He also plays the banjo, but not very well.

https://jointlybetter.com/
https://www.instagram.com/jointlybetter/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-d-kooi/

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Adam has 30 years of business, strategy and leadership experience in both Private and Public Companies. In 2021, Adam believed the timing and opportunity was right for him to bring his passion for business, innovative financing and entrepreneurial spirit to the Cannabis sector by creating funding products for all areas of this early stage, growth industry by founding FundCanna. FundCanna provides short term funding to all areas of the sector; cultivators, manufacturers, vendors, suppliers, distributors and retailers. In just its first year, FundCanna has underwritten roughly 500 files and funded approximately 250 unique files bringing much needed liquidity and financing solutions to the legal Cannabis industry.

https://www.linkedin.com/company/fundcanna/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamstettner

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Socrates Rosenfeld is the Co-Founder and CEO of Jane Technologies. After leaving active duty in 2011 as a U.S. Army veteran and Apache helicopter commander, Socrates turned to cannabis to re-acclimate to civilian life. Because cannabis wasn’t legal at the time in Massachusetts where he lived, he was forced to rely on the black market, where he couldn’t be sure about the quality of the cannabis he was buying. The frustration of that experience, coupled with the lack of access to cannabis for his fellow vets, led Socrates to co-found Jane Technologies with his brother Abraham.

Jane launched in 2017 to provide an e-commerce solution for legal cannabis retailers. A big part of the platform is that customers can conveniently research and purchase cannabis products online. Currently, the company partners with over 2500 dispensaries in 37 states and Canada.

Prior to starting Jane, Socrates was an associate at McKinsey & Company. He graduated from the United States Military Academy and earned an MBA in entrepreneurship from MIT.

Instagram: @_iheartjane
LinkedIn: @jane-technologies-inc

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John Mueller is CEO of Greenlight. He is a partner at Mid America Capital investment bank and previously served as CEO of Acres Cannabis and Acres Cultivation. John brings extensive experience with state regulations and compliance in all areas of cannabis cultivation and dispensing. He has two successful decades of working with federal and state regulatory agencies, including the U.S. Department of Agriculture as well as the Food and Drug Administration. John has served in all levels of executive management primarily in the cannabis, food, manufacturing, and construction industries.

https://greenlightdispensary.com/
https://twitter.com/greenlightdispo
https://www.instagram.com/greenlightbrands/

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John McLeod is the co-founder of Cloud Cannabis, the leading vertically integrated Michigan operator that curates high-quality cannabis products to help customers live healthier, happier and higher lives. Since launching in 2020, John has been instrumental in developing and opening Cloud’s nine retail stores throughout Michigan, and he continues to spearhead growth into new markets. In addition to retail, John plays a direct role in the licensing and expansion of Cloud’s 70,000-square-foot commercial grow facility in Kalamazoo and the 15-000-square-foot processing facility.

John's journey into the cannabis industry began over 14 years ago while working as a police officer with the Detroit Police Department. After sustaining a career-ending injury, John was prescribed opioids but quickly began to endure the adverse side effects of prescription drugs. Seeking a natural healing alternative, John turned to medical cannabis and found the experience eye-opening, “like flipping a switch.”

After retiring from the police force, John went on to pursue a career in cannabis to provide others who may otherwise be addicted to opiates access to the healing benefits of the plant. John has remained unwavering in this mission through his work at Cloud and aims to fill the information gap surrounding the advantages of cannabis.

John currently lives in Detroit with his wife and kids.

https://cloudcannabis.com/
https://www.instagram.com/cloudcannabisco/
https://www.facebook.com/cloudcannaco

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Daryl is a CPA that brings 30 years of multistate and local tax experience to the cannabis industry. In addition, he assists all hemp and cannabis vertical clients throughout the country with capital raises by preparing pitch decks and financial accounting. As Managing Director of Green Rush Accounting & Tax, Daryl's focus is on maximizing company profits while minimizing tax liabilities.

https://www.greenrushtax.com/
https://www.instagram.com/greenrushtax/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryl-jendras-cpa-0482522/

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Wendy Bronfein is Co-Founder, Chief Brand Officer and Director of Public Policy at Curio Wellness. As a member of the executive leadership team, Bronfein drives the company’s legislative agenda across multiple states, oversees the Curio brand, and all corporate communications. Under her leadership, Curio Wellness has become Maryland’s leading medical cannabis company, securing 90% brand awareness within the first year of operations.

Prior to starting Curio Wellness in 2016, Bronfein served as Creative Director of On-Air Promotions at LIVE! With Kelly & Michael from 2014-2016. In this role she oversaw the team responsible for launch, stunt and daily episodic promotion of the show. Bronfein also worked for NBC Universal’s Oxygen network where she rose from Senior Producer and Editor in 2010 to Creative Director in 2014.

Bronfein was a Managing Producer at BBC Worldwide Americas from 2006-2010 and has also served in various freelance production roles in New York and Los Angeles working on shows such as The Andy Milonakis Show, Wanda Does it, and The Sharon Osbourne Show.

Bronfein is a member of the Board of Directors for Pratt Contemporaries, affiliated with Baltimore City’s largest public library system. She is also on the Board of Directors for the Pearlstone Center in Baltimore, MD.

In 2017, Bronfein was named to Baltimore Business Journal’s 40 under 40 list and to Marijuana Venture’s “Women to Watch”.

@curio_welllness (IG)
https://www.facebook.com/curiowellnessbrand
https://twitter.com/curiowellness
https://www.linkedin.com/company/curio-wellness/

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https://www.linkedin.com/company/far-dotter/

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Kimberly Hooks is the life companion of Frenchy Cannoli whom she met 40+ years ago while traveling in Nepal & India. As a lifelong connoisseur & aficionado of finely crafted chocolate, Kimberly has embraced the science behind developing an expert palate. She worked professionally for 30+ years in the transportation logistics industry focused on organizational development, process analysis, & training design.  Currently, Kimberly is the CEO of Frenchy Cannoli Brand.

https://www.frenchydreamsofhashish.com/
https://frenchycannoli.com/
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Vanessa Gabriel is the CEO and co-founder of Drop Delivery, the cannabis industry’s only all-in-one delivery technology solution for retailers. A thirty-year-old, self-described serial entrepreneur, Vanessa previously co-founded Greenlight Technologies, a leading order-ahead, and digital loyalty software in the cannabis industry, which was acquired in 2018.

www.dropdelivery.com
https://republic.com/drop-delivery
https://www.instagram.com/thedrop.app/

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Baltimore, Maryland native, black female entrepreneur, and a registered nurse for more than 12 years, Ashley Wynn-Grimes BSN, RN is the Founder of Cannabis Nursing Solutions, LLC, author of “Stigmatized”, and the children’s book “Asa’s Medicine”.

Ashley’s work is dedicated to empowering patients and nursing professionals to make informed wellness choices with impactful educational medical programs that also serve to promote diverse representation and increased resiliency in those she serves. During her impressive career, Ashley has worked in various healthcare settings, including telemetry nursing, quality improvement, and professional development.

She is responsible for trail-blazing non-traditional cannabis patient care programs in Maryland that offer standardized approaches to dispensing cannabis for nursing professionals and children in school settings. Ashley holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing and Master’s Degree in Nurse Education from Towson University, and in 2021, she was chosen for Baltimore Business Journal Leaders in Health Care. Ashley also has a certification in Professional Development and is a certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt.

www.stigmatizedthebook.com
www.cannabisnursingsolutions.com
www.instagram.com/cannabisnursingsolutions

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Robert is the Co-Founder and Chief Creative at Studio TBD, a creative collective focusing on cannabis-infused drinks and edibles and web3 initiatives. With a background in advertising, branding, creative development, and design strategy Robert has been leading creative endeavours and departments at some of the most prominent agencies in the creative industry in both Europe and the US.

https://studio-tbd.io/
https://twitter.com/StudioTBD_NYC
https://www.instagram.com/tbd.products/

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With over 10 years of industry experience in cultivation, manufacturing, regulatory compliance, operations, local lobbying, and project management. Raymond Strack is the Chief Executive Officer at Shasta Grown; a vertically integrated Cannabis supply chain company located on the slopes of Mount Shasta in the City of Weed, California.

http://www.shastagrown.com
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/18/us/weed-california.html

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Ben is a seasoned global technology executive with more than 25 years experience in sales, marketing, business development, customer success and alliances. He was previously the Executive Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer for ServiceSource (Nasdaq: SERV) responsible for the company’s global Sales, Solution Design and Business Development functions. Ben is a seasoned global technology executive, Ben brings more than 25 years experience in sales, marketing, business development, customer success and alliances to the role. Previously, Ben was Executive Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer for ServiceSource responsible for the company’s global Sales, Solution Design and Business Development functions. During his 15+ years at ServiceSource, Ben led the company’s global expansion, founding and managing ServiceSource’s EMEA and APJ operations, and also held a variety of customer success and operational leadership positions in the company. Prior to ServiceSource, Ben held leadership positions at Jamcracker, Loudcloud, and Transition Networks. Centered on revenue growth, Ben’s career also includes marketing, go-to-market strategy, product management, networking, hardware, and managed service sales.

https://www.embroker.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-jennings-8643b61/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/embroker/

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Toni Conn is an Enrolled Agent through the IRS. Having been in the accounting industry for over five years, Toni brings knowledge from multiple industries, including manufacturing and service. She combines her accounting experience with her Enrolled Agent credential to help businesses in the cannabis industry obtain compliant lower taxes and peace of mind. When not helping businesses in the cannabis industry have financial peace of mind, you can find Toni spending time with her husband and her ever-changing hobbies. Various hobbies include playing VR, coding, reading, and pursuing artistic outlets.

www.greenblisscfo.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/toni-conn/
Instagram: https://instagram.com/greenblisscfo
Twitter: https://twitter.com/greenblissacct

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The original Gentleman Smuggler. Barry “Flash” Foy learned the smuggling trade in Florida and South Carolina and soon oversaw almost 200 people along the East Coast, all swept into a mighty rush of cash and cannabis that crash-landed after President Reagan launched Operation Jackpot, the first Presidential sting in the War on Drugs, which specifically targeted Foy and his crew. Barry Foy was convicted under the 848 kingpin statute and served 11 years in federal prison. He’s ready to do business again…this time legally!

www.gentlemensmugglers.com
https://www.instagram.com/gentlemen_smugglers
https://www.linkedin.com/company/gentlemensmugglers
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Brandon is a cannabis-focused fractional CMO. He helped grow a cannabis brand from 1 to 15 locations, raise over 1 million dollars, and build a 7-figure eCommerce machine. Since 2020 has managed Pisgah Peaks Ventures & helped over 60 brands streamline their marketing operations and grow their top-line revenues. Pisgah Peaks gives back to local communities by donating time & resources to 501c3s, female & minority-owned brands on a monthly basis.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandon-bobart-7a4425185/
www.pisgahpeaksventures.com

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Walter Moore is an accomplished software architect, financial engineer, and entrepreneur. He is the Co-Founder, CEO, and CTO of Cognitive Harmony Technologies, a company designed to streamline the cannabis business application process and create $1 Billion in wealth for underrepresented communities through cannabis business ownership.

https://www.linkedin.com/company/cognitive-harmony-technologies/
https://cognitiveharmony.tech/
https://cognitiveharmony.tech/sponsorship/

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Miguel is a culinary and entertainment expert who brings a rich background in storytelling with a keen understanding of consumer food trends and culinary arts. He has also worked as a producer with CBS, ABC, and CNN. In 2017 Miguel founded Panther Burn Studios, a small music label focused on nurturing and developing up-and-coming musical talent. In 2020, Oliveira went on to start the Scandalous Chocolate brand, a first-in-class edible company that is pushing the limits of quality in the cannabis space. His culinary background and extensive experience in media and music certainly makes for a dynamic approach to the quickly growing cannabis industry.

Scandalouschocolates.com
Instagram: @scandlaouschocolate
YouTube: scandalous chocolates channel
Facebook/meta: scandalous chocolates

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Jordan heads Marino’s cannabis, higher education, and public affairs practices. A former advisor to the New York State Senate and the New York State Governor’soffice, he has led award-winning strategic communications programs for a broad spectrum of clients, including cannabis brands, higher education institutions, and labor unions. Some client highlights include Etain Health, FlowerHire, Come Back Daily, Beak & Skiff, Canna-House, Hiller PC, the New York Cannabis Growers & Processors Association, Ayr Wellness, House of Puff, Poplar, engin, Happy Munkey, Shinnecock Hemp. He regularly contributes to various cannabis and policy media outlets offering public relations insights. Jordan was named a Cannabis Industry Power Player by PoliticsNY in 2022. He also founded the Cannabis Media Lab and sat on the Board of Advisors of the CBD and Cannabinoid Industry Association.

https://twitter.com/MrIsenstadt
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrisenstadt/

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A serial entrepreneur, Larry brings a wealth of hands-on experience, with a focus on computational linguistics (machine learning), IoT and SaaS based finance and marketing platforms. As co-founder and CEO of Lucid Green, Larry oversees operations to bring LucidIDs to the forefront of cannabis supply chain solutions. Prior to Lucid Green, Larry served as co-founder and CEO of Semagix Group, which was sold to Warburg Pincus in 2006. Larry was also the founder and CEO of Protégé Holdings, recognized as an “Upside 100” company, as well as the founder of Citria and Delrina Europe. Delrina was sold to Symantec in 1995. Larry guest lectures entrepreneurship at the Cornell University - Johnson School of Management. He holds a BCom and BAcc from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, and is a chartered accountant CA(SA).

https://www.linkedin.com/company/lucid-green/
https://twitter.com/lucidgreenio
https://www.instagram.com/lucidgreen.io/

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Josh and Tara Joseph host a podcast, The Big Plan, and are Co-owners of the Nashville-based investment company Big Plan Holdings, they are involved in cannabis, real estate, music and entertainment, lifestyle, fashion, and philanthropy. Josh and Tara discuss falling in love, drugs, having kids, being in business together, and everything in between. Above all, Josh and Tara are husband and wife, and more importantly, best friends. They are here to speak their truth and leave nothing uncovered.

https://linktr.ee/thebigplanpodcast
https://www.instagram.com/thebigplanpodcast/
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https://www.tiktok.com/@thebigplanpodcast?_t=8VF8VmdiEfr&_r=1

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Hannah loves resolving her client’s intellectual property and business problems. She provides services to clients throughout California and the United States. She focuses her law practice on solving issues involving trademarks, trade secrets, copyrights, unfair competition law, and data privacy.

After a decade of working in the California legal field and in movement lawyering, Hannah is not intimidated by the innovative or unknown. A firebrand litigator, Hannah ardently supports clients at every stage of their brand creation and development process. Her intellect, unwavering persistence, and network connections enable her to move mountains for clients.

Hannah joined the legal community servicing the California cannabis industry in 2012 and has educated attorneys on panels and presentations since 2018. As the cannabis industry grew and evolved, her law practice transitioned from deal-making and compliance work into complex litigation over intellectual property rights and related business claims. Her advice and counsel to both attorneys and industry operators over the years have shaped the market.

Currently, Hannah sits on the Ethics Committee for the International Cannabis Bar Association, as well as both the Barrister’s Cannabis, Alcohol, and Regulated Industries committee and the Intellectual Property committee for the Bar Association of San Francisco. She has also worked with the Prisoner Advocacy Network, where she fought alongside California prisoners to improve their living conditions and uphold their civil rights. Her committee work and pro bono work directly inform her legal practice litigating for clients in highly regulated industries.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/hannahstitt/
https://tectoniclaw.com
https://www.linkedin.com/company/tectonicllp/

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Bethany has established herself as a trailblazer in emerging markets, with a focus on cannabis, CBD and wellness. As Managing Director and Co-Founder of Brightfield Group, Bethany's commitment to leadership and storytelling through meaningful data has positioned the company as an industry leader, playing a crucial role in shaping the cannabis, CBD and wellness industries both from a consumer and market perspective. Bethany has been featured and quoted in numerous media outlets including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNN, Bloomberg, Yahoo! Finance and more.

Prior to helping found Brightfield Group in 2015, Bethany managed a team of analysts for Euromonitor International, covering an array of CPG industries including Packaged Food, Drinks, Alcohol, Tobacco, Beauty and Supplements.

In her spare time, Bethany is an avid traveler, having visited more than 30 countries around the world.

www.brightfieldgroup.com

https://www.linkedin.com/company/brightfield-group/

https://twitter.com/brightfieldgrp

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Changemaker Creative helps cannabis and sustainable consumer product makers stand out with unique custom branding and packaging design – and attract a cult following of loyal customers. With a focus on sustainable packaging for conscious cannabis and hemp product brands, she's deeply passionate about saving the planet through better design. Clients outside cannabis include award-winning global product brands sold at major retailers like Target, Williams-Sonoma, and Whole Foods, and cannabis clients with multiple Emerald Cup wins.

You can often find her speaking about sustainability, packaging, and design.

www.changemakercreative.com

linkedin.com/in/lillikeinaenen

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Chris is a scientist helping cannabis businesses develop innovative strategies and solutions to thrive in the evolving eco-system. Chris is a Master of cannabinoid medical research with specific knowledge of the endocannabinoid system and its role in colorectal cancer and inflammatory bowel diseases. One of the first UK scientists to investigate cannabinoids in human tissue. Chris is the founder of Global Cannabinoid Solutions, a science consultancy which trains executives in the science of cannabis, helping them leverage 21st-century cannabinoid science.

• For Cannabis Business Innovation and Scientific Solutions: https://www.globalcannabinoidsolutions.com/
• Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIMzWWZ-JI6rJ_QFnoUdi6Q
• Facebook Community: https://www.facebook.com/GlobalCannabinoidSolutions
• Christopher Tasker LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-tasker/
• GCS LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/global-cannabinoid-solutions
• The Canna-Manual, Everything You Need to Know About Cannabis: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Canna-Manual-Cannabis-Context-Christopher-Tasker-ebook/dp/B08WKGHJ71/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1652278315&sr=8-1
• Get Started In The Business of Cannabis With Our Cannabis Crash Course: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Canna-Crash-Course-Navigate-Business-ebook/dp/B08SKLS1LS/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=cannabis+crash+course&qid=1612619885&s=digital-text&sr=1-1

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Nikki Lawley is a patient advocate, speaker, and founder of Nikki and the Plant. She personally discovered cannabis as medicine after suffering a life-changing injury while working as a pediatric nurse.

In October of 2016, Nikki was a 46-year-old woman whose life changed in literally a second. Going from being a medical professional to becoming a patient was a major adjustment and almost cost this vibrant mother, wife, and career professional to contemplating taking her own life after becoming a victim of the traditional medical system, seeing over 50 doctors, and was on cocktails of drugs that each had more and more side effects. Four months after her injury, Nikki found plant medicine.

Nikki and the Plant is a pillar of medical cannabis advocacy and a champion for the importance of sharing patient stories. She is planning on creating the first product line focusing on cannabis and the science behind why cannabis helps support for her chronic pain, cognitive function, anxiety, and depression.

Nikki is on the Patient Advisory Board for NY State Americans for Safe Access and for Cannabis BPO. Nikki is considered a leading voice in the community, chronicling her journey from being a healthcare provider to a patient to an advocate. She hopes to bring worldwide awareness to invisible illness and disability. She has been a guest on multiple podcasts and shows including “Let’s Be Blunt with Montel Williams.”

https://linktr.ee/Nikkilawley

Website www.nikkiandtheplant.org

Linked In https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikki-lawley-aa281517/?trk=people-guest_people_search-card

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/nikki.lawley

Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/nikkiandtheplant

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/nikkiandtheplant/

YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8gIjFp_5cCEiwbTHBQXfrw

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Joe Lustberg is a leader in the fintech industry with extensive knowledge of financial products and the marketplace. Joe’s experience and expertise is the main reason for his fast rise in the industry. His tenacious drive and deep network of relationships within the cannabis and lending industry have allowed for his success. He handles a multitude of functions as CEO of Upwise Capital, leading the company every day in funding large transactions while providing the best and most efficient service. Joe has held positions at some of the largest fintech companies in the United States rising the ladder to now managing partner and CEO of Upwise Capital. These experiences have helped to shape him into the leader and driving force he is today.

With a focus on real estate, CAPEX, and construction buildouts of cannabis facilities, Joe is well-versed in various financing options available for cannabis operators. As the CEO of Upwise Capital, Joe oversees the cannabis and alternative financing division of the firm. Upwise is a full-service cannabis marketplace, offering products such as real estate acquisition financing or real estate loans, equipment financing, unsecured non-dilutive working capital, purchase order financing, inventory financing, construction loans based on the as-completed cannabis value, sale-leasebacks, and more. He has been lending to the cannabis industry since 2014, Joe’s understanding of cannabis value and the cannabis debt markets is what gives him a competitive advantage in the market. His other areas of expertise include SBA loans, short-term financing, equipment financing, lines of credit, factoring, contract negotiations, underwriting, and financial analysis.

https://upwisecapital.com/cannabis-financing/

https://upwisecapital.com/2021/11/01/cannabis-business-loans-guide/

https://www.instagram.com/upwise_capital/

https://www.facebook.com/upwisecapital

https://twitter.com/upwisecapital

https://www.linkedin.com/company/upwise-capital

https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-lustberg

https://upwisecapital.com/press/

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Dan has been working in the cannabis industry for over three years and has been a part of marketing over 150+ different brands. Currently, he heads business development and strategic partnerships for Cannabis Creative Group – a top marketing agency in the cannabis industry. He is a member of many cannabis associations such as the Cannabis Marketing Association, Business Owners Hemp and Cannabis Association, and National Association of Cannabis Businesses and is currently a committee member of the National Cannabis Industry Association’s Marketing and Advertising Committee. With years of experience in the health and wellness industry, Dan’s background as a business development professional complements his interest in the innovating world of cannabis.

Before joining the cannabis industry, Dan managed multiple health clubs in downtown Boston and in Santa Monica, California, where his focus on business development shed new light on the concept of corporate wellness. He’s also embraced sales roles in the biotech and software industries for numerous start-up companies. Dan holds a bachelor’s degree in Recreation Management and Policy with a focus in Business Administration from the University of New Hampshire. Today, when he’s not in the office, Dan can most likely be found outside – his passions include hiking, snowboarding, fishing, camping, travelling, and playing basketball, to name a few.

https://www.instagram.com/cannabiscreativegroup/

https://twitter.com/Cannabis_CG

https://www.facebook.com/cannacreativegroup/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/cannabis-creative-group

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Polly is the co-founder of thric3, an online and real-world community at the intersection of cannabis 2.0 and web 3.0. She is a results-oriented business leader, company builder and value-creator who spent her career building successful companies in nascent markets. Polly has been consulting and advising brands and technology companies in the cannabis industry for nearly 5 years, with a focus on storytelling, digital marketing and revenue acceleration.

Polly has broad and deep experience in sales leadership, marketing, go-to-market strategy, and business acceleration. She made a name for herself in the last nascent market – mobile – where she was frequently recognized for trailblazing the industry and named one of the Most Powerful Women in Mobile by Business Insider.

Polly is passionate about innovation and led “first-to-market” programs for top brands like Nike, Ford, Target, Showtime and Coca-Cola, including the first interactive IVR (interactive voice response) that enabled consumers to interact with a Times Square Billboard and the first rich media ad that ran on an iPad.

She is excited about the recent digital/eCommerce acceleration in the cannabis industry and sees great opportunities for brands to use technology to build deeper relationships with consumers

When she’s not talking to brands about the next big thing in tech, she can be found with her family and on tennis courts, ski slopes, travelling to new destinations or in the kitchen whipping up a gourmet meal.

@thric3official IG and Twitter

https://www.linkedin.com/company/thric3/

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Misty founded the Oregon Institute for A Better Way in 2016 after a 6-year field study based on How our brains learn and the measurable data that something evolutionary is occurring to us physically and spiritually. Misty studies the effects of these occurrences in individuals, partners, families, organizations and industry. Misty is a facilitator, motivator and opportunity enthusiast always seeking the largest stone to toss into the pool of change and progression. Misty founded the Community System Navigators in response the pandemic and the national need for translators of agency funding.

Today Misty and her teams have navigated 20 million in relief, recovery and expansion funding. Misty and her retired Army aviation husband Sean reside in Oregon ever-present for the raising of 3 grandchildren, farm animals and strong community bonds through intentional living. Both are active Grange members and participate in the Farmer Veteran Coalition and Farm Bureau To save the family farm! Misty seeks to continue her education at Syracuse University for an Executive Masters in Public Policy and later a PhD of Cultural Anthropology.

https://www.facebook.com/communitysystemnavigators

https://www.facebook.com/intentionalcommunities

@COMMUNITYSYSTE1

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Founded by Raleigh-based lawyer and serial entrepreneur Morgan Davis, Davis Legal is a full-service boutique law firm specializing in cannabis law and policy, serving entrepreneurs, politicians and brands.

From legal planning, regulatory support, corporate guidance, and compliance strategies, Morgan Davis has built a name locally and nationally as a lawyer and entrepreneur reshaping the cannabis industry. Morgan Davis is the Co-founder of Compendium Complete, the owner of a comprehensive database created for cannabis industry stakeholders, ancillary service providers and legal professionals. Morgan also serves as the- Industry Liaison of the CBD Association, a 501(c)(6) non-profit trade association promoting the CBD & Cannabinoid industries worldwide.

A total boss babe, Morgan Davis was a successful trial attorney when, burned out by the corporate legal structure, she started Davis Legal as the 2018 Farm Bill opened the floodgates for the federal legalization of CBD and hemp products. Seeing brands entering the cannabis industry without the proper protections and compliance, Morgan focused her firm on helping any cannabis brand, entrepreneur or company hoping to legitimize themselves within the space to be compliant, and legally protected. She works closely groups of entrepreneurs and female entrepreneurs both locally and within the national CBD industry, providing resources for legal compliance and formation.

Outside of cannabis law, Morgan is a Co-owner of Oak Health Institute, a medspa startup specializing in hormone replacement therapy, sexual health, anti-aging and athletic performance optimization.

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/morgandavis86/ (personal)

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/morgandavislegal/ (firm)

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/oakhealthinstitute/ (medspa)

Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/morgan-davis-1b04b816/ (personal)

Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/company/69229867/ (firm)

Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/company/gocbda/mycompany/ (CBDA)

Facebook - Davis Legal Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/morgandavislegal

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Lana Van Brunt and Hayley Dineen are the Brooklyn-based duo behind Sackville & Co., a design-focused contemporary cannabis lifestyle brand, and Sackville Studios, the first multidisciplinary cannabis design and production studio creating brands from the ground up for both cannabis industry leaders and newcomers alike. Dineen cut her teeth at the world-renowned arts & design college Central St. Martin’s in London, going on to design for high-end brands including Yeezy, OVO, Vivienne Westwood and more. Van Brunt employs her marketing and branding genius to the Sackville brand from her time as a Director at VICE Media and ATTN: Media.

https://sackville.co/

https://www.instagram.com/sackville.and.co/

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Anand has almost 20 years of experience in both public and private investments, including as Senior Analyst at Atlas Capital Partners, a hedge fund, where he supervised a research team.

Anand was also VP and Quantitative Risk Analyst at Morgan Stanley, where he developed and managed complex stress scenarios to detect and mitigate market risks for the firm. Anand has over a decade of personal experience investing in private companies in the United States and India. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst, holds a B.A. in Computer Science as well as Economics, and has a series 7 and 63 licenses.

http://www.barcapital.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/anandshahi/

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Derek Thomas is the Chief Growth Officer for AE Global. He has spent more than a decade developing businesses, focused on sustainable scaling, growth and strategy.

Prior to joining AE Global, Thomas served as vice president of business development for Veritas Farms, a publicly-traded, vertically-integrated full-spectrum hemp extracts company that was first to be sold on Amazon. There he oversaw the company’s growth as it scaled across the U.S. and developed critical retail partnerships with food, retail and drugstore businesses, including CVS, Rite Aid, Kroger, South Eastern Grocers and more.

Derek has been featured on TedX, Cheddar TV, The C.W., Hemp Industry Daily, The Guardian, The Miami Herald, E.C.R.M., and FounderMade. He is also is an avid environmentalist, nature-lover and explorer, volunteering his time with local and national organizations working to protect the environment. His most recent exploration was to the summit of Mt Kilimanjaro.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/derek-thomas/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/ae-global-pkg/

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Adam Wilks is Tyson 2.0's Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman of the Board. He formerly served as Chief Executive Officer of One Plant, a multi-state cannabis retail chain. Prior to One Plant, Wilks served as COO of the venture capital firm SOL Global. Wilks also spent more than a decade scaling licensed retail brands including PinkBerry and Cold Stone Creamery.

https://tyson20.com/

https://www.instagram.com/itstyson20/

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Mark Ervin founded GreenGro Biologicals in 2009 with Mycorrhizae and beneficial bacteria blends. His education in ancient agricultural methods led him to the discovery of "Terra Preta" soils which are found in the Amozonian basin, and are considered some of the most fertile soils in the world. Mr. Ervin built upon that philosophy and has expanded the product line to include the highest quality - dry organic fertilizer blends, dry organic soil additives and organic and biological pest controls on the market today.

GreenGro Biologicals aspires to be the leading organic soil amendment company in the United States. We want to raise awareness for green, sustainable farming and contribute to charities that promote sustainable practices in our local community. Our products contain beneficial microorganisms that will nurture these relationships and help your soil flourish, maintaining a living soil system for plants to thrive.

GreenGro Biologicals products have helped countless growers improve the quality of their crops. From Giant Pumpkin growers, backyard gardeners, and licensed cannabis cultivators, our products give growers everything they need to produce the best organic crops possible. With four facilities on the West Coast which produced over 1000 tons of fertilizer and over 20,000 cubic yards of soil in 2021, and a 5th facility coming to the East Coast in 2022, the future looks very bright for GreenGro Biologicals.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-ervin-2749a816/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thegreengro/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thegreengro/

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Jon Malave is a Founder, Chairperson of the Tristate Cannabis Alliance as well as CEO of QAcanna, a Quality Assurance and operational regulatory compliance company in the cannabis industry. The Tristate Cannabis Alliance is a coalition of NY, NJ, CT & PA small and medium sized businesses, social organizational leaders, representatives, and policy advocates, in conjunction with non-industry citizens, whose mission is dedicated to ensuring a socially equitable and regionally harmonized cannabis industry.

https://www.instagram.com/tristate_cannabis_alliance/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/tristate-cannabis-alliance-b99168222/

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Mark is the Co-founder and SVP of Digital Communications at Springbig, a software platform providing customer loyalty and marketing automation solutions to cannabis retailers and brands in the U.S. and Canada. The company's platform connects consumers with retailers and brands, through SMS marketing, emails, a customer feedback system, and loyalty programs, to support retailers' and brands' customer engagement and retention.

https://www.instagram.com/springbigrewards/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/springbig

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/springbig-inc-/

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Devin Calloway is the Founder, co-CEO, CTO and President of Eco Farm Holdings PBC leading the company’s technology and manufacturing functions. Calloway brings over 15 years of cannabis industry and advocacy experience as well as 20 years in web development, UI/UX and Info Architecture bringing a unique perspective to technology operations in the cannabis industry. Prior to founding Eco Farm, Calloway founded the first web and mobile cannabis locator app directing users to legal cannabis resources. Calloway holds various degrees and certifications from Sacred Heart University, Fairfield University, and New York Institute of Technology.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/devincalloway/

Instagram: @devincalloway

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A former CFO of a public company, Dima has worked in various finance and management roles in East Europe and Africa for more than a decade. Dima and his co-founders decided five years ago to solve problems they encountered when growing plants. Their goal was to grow anything anywhere with minimal effort and zero mistakes. Thus, GrowDirector was born. Five years later, they have launched their third generation of greenhouse automation and hydroponics controller.

https://growdirector.com/

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https://www.facebook.com/growdirectorltd

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George Allen serves as Chairman of the Board for California-based Lowell Farms Inc. (CSE:LOWL; OTCQX:LOWLF), a leading, vertically-integrated, cannabis company with advanced production capabilities, including cultivation, extraction, manufacturing, brand sales & marketing, and distribution. A seasoned executive with extensive financing and transaction experience, Mr. Allen has built multiple companies through a combination of organic and acquisition-driven growth. He has recruited operating teams and shaped strategy in several competitive and dynamic industries.

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Colton is CEO of Flourish Software, a leading supply chain management and seed to sale tracking software solution for the cannabis, CBD, and hemp verticals. Prior to Flourish, Colton was a consultant at Manhattan Associates, a market leader in best-of breed supply chain software. There he specialized in business intelligence and data analytics for supply chain applications, helping dozens of companies optimize their operations. He moved onto Genuine Parts Company (Fortune #177) where he built and managed a reporting platform deployed to dozens of distribution centers as well as corporate inventory optimization and trade management systems. He started a consulting practice focused on this discipline and ultimately founded a startup to build a SaaS analytics platform for distribution center operations. Flourish was born from this endeavor. He graduated from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville with a BS in Industrial Engineering.

https://www.instagram.com/finallyflourish/

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Francesca Vavala is President of The Sales Joint, a cannabis sales business that helps craft growers stay competitive in all markets through professional sales. With five years in the cannabis industry, Francesca and her business partner Mike productized their IP that created major success with farms across the country in the cannabis industry. They provide a weekly, state-specific-buyers guide built from conversations with dispensaries and create sales training tools and workshops for subscribers.

She also runs Terrapin Select, a CBD resale company that is focused on quality education and products. She is in the midst of writing her first book, a memoir style collection of essays about her life with and the death of her conjoined twin. Francesca can be found on stages speaking to cannabis community members about how professional sales can save craft cannabis. She likes to stay busy until she crashes. Then she loves staying in pajamas and hanging out with podcasts, books, crime shows, her pets, and her husband. She thinks the height of luxury is eating pizza in a hotel bed and finds life far too short for all she wants to do. When she needs to slow herself down, she savors solitary, long walks in Wilmington Delaware, which she calls home. Francesca hates writing bios and hopes this suffices :)

https://www.linkedin.com/in/francesca-vavala-24817114b/

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https://www.instagram.com/thesalesjoint/

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As a natural catastrophe risk engineer-turned-co founder and CEO of an agri-tech startup focused on the modern indoor farming industry, I apply my 15+ years of experience in climate disaster risk engineering to create innovative technologies that will revolutionize urban farming in order to protect plant medicine and our food supply.

After graduating cum laude from Northeastern University’s College of Engineering, I worked as an international engineering consultant and specialist focused on climate disaster risk engineering to reduce property damage and business interruptions from natural catastrophes.

In 2011, I started my first entrepreneurial venture. In 2016, I combined my unique mix of experiences of working as an engineer on the ground during and after natural catastrophes with my entrepreneurial drive, leadership, and passion for plant medicine to create the patented automated plant training system (TrellaGro LST™) that will revolutionize indoor farming and diverse plant growth.

In addition to serving as the CEO of Trella Technologies Inc., she is also a mentor and volunteer for EforAll (Entrepreneurship for All), and is the Lead Grow Officer for Building Audacity a non-profit organiztion serving the communities throughout Massachusetts.

https://www.instagram.com/trellatech

https://www.linkedin.com/company/trellatech

https://twitter.com/TrellaTech

https://www.youtube.com/TrellaTech

https://www.trella.io/

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Michelle Mattice is the National Sales Vice President for Joint Venture Pay. She currently sits on the Board of Directors for the North East Hemp Association. Joint Venture Pay is a member of the NHA, HIA, NCIA, and New York Cannabis Growers and Processors Association.

Joint Venture Pay (jwww.jointventurepay.com) is a nationwide company that was created by their parent company Pay it Forward Processing (www.pfprocessing.com) to respond to the increasing requests they were receiving from the cannabis market to be able to provide payment solutions to the industry.

Since it's inception, Joint Venture Pay realized that the cannabinoid markets need not only payment processing but safe financial and business services. They've developed into industry connectors. Whether it be finding industry friendly banking, HR, Payroll Services, lawyers, accountants, and more, they've built a large network of business resources for the hemp and cannabis markets and help connect their clients to these services. They also make sure that they do not just have one solution for their customers but many to make sure that they can service as much of the industry as possible.

Joint Venture Pay also has a unique give back program called the "Every Swipe Benefits Charity" program (www.esbcharity.org). Their companies take 10% of their NET, without charging their clients or their client's customers, and donate it to vetted charities of their merchant's choice.

Michelle has worked in sales and training for several Fortune 100 companies over the years, including the Walt Disney World Company, Grainger, and Staples Advantage. She currently resides in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate NY with her husband and her various "kids". Her happy place is her campfire with a glass of "Momma" Juice.

michelle@jointventurepay.com

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-wolcott-mattice-6b2b6b3a/

https://www.facebook.com/michelle.wolcott.7/

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Lauren Carpenter has over a decade of experience building prolific teams and leading successful strategy for some of the most diverse business coalitions and campaigns in California, including dozens of Fortune 50 companies. Before Carpenter co-founded Embarc, she served as Chief Strategy Officer for Sweet Flower, and Director of Government Affairs for Western States at MedMen. Carpenter brought her extensive cannabis experience in government, regulatory, public, and community affairs to Embarc and into her role as CEO. Carpenter has become a trusted advisor to elected officials and continues to work with government agencies throughout the state and across the country to implement thoughtful cannabis regulations within communities to create mutually beneficial operations.

Dustin Moore is a trusted consultant and advisor with more than a decade of experience in political strategy, public policy, and government and public affairs. He specializes in the strategic development and implementation of policies across legislative, public affairs, issue advocacy, ballot measure and statewide and local candidate and issue campaigns.

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https://www.instagram.com/embarcsupply/

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Dino H Carter is a marketing consultant and a brand strategist with more than 25 years of international marketing experience including works with Levi's, MTV Europe, National Geographic, Alfa Romeo and more. Among others, Dino has been helping Cannabis businesses grow brand awareness and increase revenues.

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Www.dbrandingla.com

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For more than 20 years, Nick held management positions with high-tech New Jersey companies such as AT&T, Perkin Elmer, Telcordia Technologies, and Ericsson. He has also taught business, technical, and math courses at several NJ colleges and universities. Since 2001, his consultancy, NJS Marketing Services, has helped businesses across a wide range of industries develop and implement strategies to achieve their growth objectives.

Nick is currently the founder and CEO of NJ Cannabis Consulting, serving the business needs of entrepreneurs and companies interested in becoming involved in the legal recreational cannabis market in New Jersey by:

- Helping them understand the many challenges that lie ahead.

- Determining whether the opportunities are right for them.

- Developing and executing the plans and programs necessary to their success.

He also speaks, blogs, and tweets regularly on the business aspects of cannabis legalization in New Jersey.

Nick is also a certified SCORE business counselor and workshop instructor and holds BS, MS, and MBA degrees.

*NOTE: Mr. Scalera is not an advocate (pro or con) for the legalization of cannabis in New Jersey

njcannabisconsulting.com

thecannabislearningcenter.com

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Paradigm Media is a digital marketing agency specializing in the CBD and Cannabis industry. In the last three years, they've developed 360° marketing solutions and have been working with 70+ brands executing an ROI-focused growth strategy. Understanding the challenges this industry is facing Paradigm became a one-stop-shop for all of their clients' needs including; Paid Media, Affiliate Marketing, Email Marketing, Content Marketing, Social Media & Influencers Management, SEO, Web Development, and Graphic Design.

Lior Root and Sophia Trunzo are accomplished entrepreneurs with combined decades of experience in paid media marketing and sales in the CBD industry. After years of leading in-house marketing teams, the pair seized on the explosive growth of CBD and started their own agency, Paradigm Media, in 2019. They have signed over 70 clients in under two years, including some of the biggest brands in CBD, and grown agency revenue by a projected 700%.

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https://www.linkedin.com/company/paradigmmedia

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Heather Rubiales has worked closely in the Cannabis industry for the past 10 years. She is a California native born and raised in San Diego. Her passion for the industry and a clean Planet has pushed her to create the startup Heather's Hemp Alternatives based out of Humboldt County.

Heather's Hemp Alternatives is providing compostable Hemp-based packaging for the Cannabis & Hemp industry and hopes to bring plastic free as a new element to what Sustainable, Regenerative Cannabis/Hemp looks like.

https://heathershempalternatives.com/

https://www.instagram.com/heathershempalternatives/

https://www.facebook.com/Heathers-Hemp-Alternatives-413935642722841/

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A digital marketing expert with a keen eye for performance marketing. Passionate about cannabis, Igor immediately recognized an emerging need for a unifying cannabis marketing platform. Combining his love of marijuana and his 15 years of experience in the digital landscape, Igor crafted an online cannabis index committed to helping consumers and brands find each other in the green sea of an expanding industry.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/igor-dunaevsky-980a185a

https://twitter.com/askgrowers

https://www.instagram.com/askgrowers/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/askgrowers/

https://www.facebook.com/askgrowers/

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Remember the first time you walked into a headshop; the amazing sights and smells, the sense of wonder? That memory is what led Matt Hampton to create Headshop.com. A keen student of the digital revolution, Matt founded the online home for those who want to explore and buy high-quality items related to cannabis and other plant-based medicine — safely and efficiently.

https://www.facebook.com/Headshop

https://www.instagram.com/_headshop/

https://twitter.com/thenewheadshop

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Jun S. Lee is an entrepreneur, software engineer and multifaceted business executive. In his role as Co-CEO of Nabis, California’s largest licensed wholesale cannabis marketplace, he oversees revenue, operations, product and business strategy. He brings the experienced mindset of a systems architect to cannabis, creating flawless business and consumer experiences through technology. Jun also serves on the California Cannabis Industry Association (CCIA) board and the board of Oakland Citizens for Equity and Prosperity (OCEP).

Drawing from his successes at Facebook and Google, where he furthered his programming and complex systems design expertise, Jun founded Series B-funded machine learning SaaS company Allganize before launching Nabis full-time in 2017. Nabis now serves over 100 cannabis brands and nearly 100% of California’s licensed retailers with its distribution, capital, analytics and other business services.

Jun received his bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics and computer science from Harvard University and was recognized as a member of the 2021 Forbes 30 Under 30 list for enterprise technologies.

https://www.nabis.com/

@getnabis - Instagram

@GetNabis - Twitter

getnabis - LinkedIn

@getnabis - Facebook

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Matt is the VP of Business Development at Dingus and Zazzy—a full-service, unlimited marketing department in Edmonton, AB. Matt launched his career in Engineering, Oil and Gas, and Cannabis, but has since discovered a home in creative sales and marketing. He believes that building real relationships begins with being yourself, however eccentric that may be.

dingusandzazzy.com

https://www.instagram.com/dingusandzazzy/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/dingus-zazzy/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-mccomb-p-eng/

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Scott is the President and Co-Founder of the Panther Group. Since 2014, he has co-founded and exited multiple companies in the ad tech and cannabis distribution sectors—with 20+ years of experience working in politics, cannabis advocacy, healthcare, and digital advertising.

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Instagram: @thepanthergroup

Twitter: @panthergroupllc

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Elana Frankel has been working in the cannabis industry for 10+ years. She started a home grow garden club; an e-commerce business, Indigo and Haze; developed product; founded the magazine Women and Weed; authored a book with the same title; serves as Chief Growth Officer for MedialCannabisMentor.com; produces documentaries; writes freelance for various publications; volunteers for the Oregon Cannabis Commission, health equity sub-committee member; consults regularly for companies who value creativity; teaches yoga and meditation with a focus on cannabis; and even worked as a dispensary associate (at the height of Covid).

Elana has been featured in the media, including CNN and The New York Times, and on various pod casts. Her writing has appeared in the WSJ/Off Duty, Architectural Digest, NY Magazine and House Beautiful. She has been an editor at Martha Stewart Living and served as VP, creative at One Kings Lane for more than 5 years, when the company was still a start-up, developing the brand, voice and visual identity.

http://indigoandhaze.com

@indigoandhaze

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Monique Jackson-Fitzgerald

Monique Jackson-Fitzgerald is an attorney and the co-founder of both InnDica.com, an online

cannabis travel platform and Lazy Turtle Group, LLC, a creative agency. With a vision to modernize and destigmatize the public perception of plant medicines, and their use as part of an active lifestyle InnDica.com was launched in 2018. InnDica is an online resource catering to plant medicine and cannabis enthusiasts.

The website features a curated list of cannabis-friendly hotels, retreats, consumption lounges, event venues, and activities. InnDica.com aims to nurture and provide a sanctuary for the bright community of cannabis enthusiasts to discover new experiences and share valued insight from their travels. As

“InnDica Explorers,” visitors are invited to submit stories about their cannabis travel adventures

for inclusion in the “Travelogue” digital magazine. Through her work as an attorney and business consultant with Lazy Turtle Group, Monique focuses on regulations involved with social consumption as well as cannabis tourism and events. With a passion for growing a conscious, sustainable cannabis industry and refreshing the public perception of cannabis, Monique's firm also provides consulting, branding, and packaging design services for licensed cannabis brands. They also assist ancillary businesses in strengthening their relationships with cannabis partners.

Rick Fitzgerald, Co-founder, InnDica

Rick is a Blue Ridge born artist and the co-founder of Lazy Turtle

Group. As Director of Imagination, Rick has over 25 years of experience in brand identity, packaging, and digital design. He has launched and managed creative departments for global corporations including

Shorewood Packaging, International Paper, and MPS.

His designs have appeared across many consumer market segments including cannabis, hemp, music, liquor, cosmetics, HBA, and fashion. His focus on sustainability and innovation in packaging is at the

forefront of all of our award-winning collaborations. Rick has an endless curiosity about the creative process and design mediums, which drives our agency. His “down-to-earth” nature and

artistic approach are what turns our clients into our friends.

https://inndica.com

-https://lazyturtlegroup.com

-@inndica420 (Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest)

-https://www.linkedin.com/company/inndica/?viewAsMember=true (InnDica LinkedIn)

-www.linkedin.com/in/rickjamesfitzgerald (Rick's LinkedIn)

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Javier Hasse is a cannabis, hemp, CBD and psychedelics-focused reporter, currently serving as Managing Director of Benzinga Cannabis, CEO of Spanish-language news site El Planteo, a company he co-founded and Senior Contributor at Forbes.

His book, “Start Your Own Cannabis Business,” was published by Entrepreneur Media in 2018 and hit the #1 Best-Seller spot on Amazon. As an award-winning reporter and editor, Javier's had roughly 5,000 unique articles in multiple languages published across numerous mass media outlets including CNN, Forbes, MSN, Chicago Tribune, CNBC, Yahoo Finance, Entrepreneur Magazine, MarketWatch, Houston Chronicle, The Street, Nasdaq, Morningstar, Playboy, Benzinga, MERRY JANE, High Times, and many others. Beyond cannabis, Javier is a published photographer and Billboard-charting rapper, featured on hip-hop albums that also included Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA and Inspectah Deck, Twista, Lil Windex, Riff Raff, Cyhi The Prynce, Yung Bleu, DJ Whoo Kid, Jonathan Hay, and others.

https://www.benzinga.com/cannabis/

bzcannabis.com

Javier Hasse Twitter

Javier Hasse LinkedIn

javierhasse@benzinga.com

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Sloane Barbour is the Founder & CEO of engin, the hiring platform for industries of the future. Sloane was previously Chief Revenue Officer at FlowerHire, the Cannabis industry's leading executive and strategic search and recruiting firm. Sloane brings over 12 years of leadership and innovation in the Talent and Recruiting space at companies like Motion Recruitment Partners and Hired.com, where he oversaw sales and recruiting teams that delivered 10,000+ strategic hires for high growth companies across North America. Sloane is passionate about Equity and Inclusion, and for the last 5 years has served on the Board of several national charities, Mouse.org and Code/Interactive, that focus on educating and empowering the future generation of diverse leaders. Sloane lives in New York City with his wife and Corgi.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sloanebarbour/

https://flowerhire.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/flowerhire/?originalSubdomain=be

https://twitter.com/FlowerHire

https://engin.fit/

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Steve Peterson is the CEO and Co-Founder of WasteTrakr Technologies, a software application for ESG reporting and sustainability. In addition, Steve is a Partner at Tress Capital, a NY venture capital firm investing in cannabis technologies. Steve combines 20+ years of technology experience with five years of cannabis industry management experience as a VP/GM of retail operations in San Jose, Eugene and Portland OR. Steve has also assisted public companies with their growth strategies and is a Board Member of MedicateOH.

www.WasteTrakr.com

www.TressDeals.com

www.Tress.io

@CannaWasteTrakr

https://www.linkedin.com/company/19035973/

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Max Simon’s vision to change the world’s understanding of cannabis led him to create Green Flower, a first-of- its-kind education company, in 2014. Green Flower has since become the recognized industry leader in cannabis education and training, producing the world’s largest library of online cannabis courses; bolstering a network of more than 700 leading cannabis experts; powering the cannabis curriculums of multiple Universities across the US; successfully training cannabis workforces around the world; and creating the esteemed Ganjier Certification, known as the Cannabis Sommelier Certification.

Max’s mission to educate the world about cannabis echoes his earlier work in bringing mind-body wellness and meditation into the mainstream as the Director of Consumer Products for world-renowned self-help guru Deepak Chopra. Max rebranded that company, developed and launched 49 signature products, and helped millions of people improve the quality of their lives along the way.

Green Flower is also a deeply personal mission for Max, who has successfully used cannabis for more than two decades as an integral part of his wellness regime—and to aid in the treatment of his ADHD.

https://www.green-flower.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/school/greenflower

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Travis Schwartz is the CEO & co-founder of Grow Glide. Travis owns three businesses and recently sold his Amazon-adjacent venture. In 2021, Travis led Grow Glide to a 20x revenue year, smashing expectations. Additionally, the company increased its headcount 533%. He credits his scaling success to his firm business beliefs:

- Attract talented, capable, like-minded individuals and get out of their way

- Optimize those individuals and their teams by leveraging technology- Make rapid decisions and small improvements every week to achieve our goals

Darin Siples, President, Co-Founder, GrowGlide

A 15 year career as a cannabis cultivator gave Darin the credibility and confidence to launch a grower-first company laser focused on solving problems actual growers face in the field. Knowing that the multi-tier solutions in the market were lacking, Darin decided to put growers first and design his own systems and solutions.

In 2021, Darin led the design of two new key cultivation products: AirGlide - providing best-in-class airflow solutions for cultivations and the Grow Decks - finally providing cultivators with a safe and secure solution for workflow in a multi-tier environment.

www.growglide.com

www.instagram.com/growglide

www.linkedin.com/company/grow-glide/

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Rose Taylor graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a BBA in Business Management. While business is her primary passion, she found out early on she had a knack for accounting. For the past 15 years, Rose has owned multiple businesses and partnerships in varying fields such as retail, B2B, e-commerce, and real estate. She has worked for small businesses and multi-million dollar corporations, both publicly and privately.

Originally from California she was well aware of challenges the cannabis industry faces and quickly jumped in to serve the new Oklahoma market in 2018.

She is an Enrolled Agent, licensed by the federal government and is authorized to appear in the place of the taxpayer at the Internal Revenue Service.

redbudadvisors.com

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facebook.com/redbudadvisors

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Caitlyn is an entrepreneur with 20+ years of healthcare and life science experience. She has a passion for building companies at the frontier of science and technology - cancer epigenomics, eye tracking for Alzheimer’s, pre-diabetes diagnostics, predictive biosimulation, and now chemistry for cannabinoids. She has held positions in executive management, operations, and corporate development with a focus on commercializing new products and bringing them to market. Caitlyn graduated with honors from Brown University with a BS in Biology, she is a mother of two boys, a Crossfitter, and is committed to realizing the potential of pure, scalable chemistry-based cannabinoids.

https://www.nalubio.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/37248677

https://www.linkedin.com/in/caitlynkrebs/

https://twitter.com/caitlynkrebs

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Dede Perkins, Co-Founder and CEO of ProCanna, has a true entrepreneurial spirit. She joined the cannabis industry in 2013 as a member of the application team that won one of the first competitive vertically integrated applications in Massachusetts. After that, she helped win cannabis licenses in New York, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, California, Arkansas, North Dakota, and Nevada. A regulatory specialist, Dede is passionate about combining compliance with operational excellence; safe, standardized products; empowered employees; strong company culture and brands.

https://procanna-usa.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dedeperkins/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/procanna-usa/

https://www.instagram.com/procannausa/

https://twitter.com/procanna_usa

https://www.facebook.com/ProCannaCompliance

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Annie Davis is a business strategist and marketing leader with a lifelong passion for building lasting brands. She founded Growing Impact because she believes in the healing power of cannabis, and that business can be a force for good.

She served as VP Marketing for Flow Kana, a leading brand of sun-grown flower, VP Sales & Marketing for Care By Design, a pioneer in CBD wellness, and I've led direct-to-consumer and strategic partnerships for Garden Society, a craft cannabis operator serving women in search of new, more holistic ways to rejuvenate from the chaos of their daily lives.

Prior to cannabis, she held marketing & business development leadership roles across consumer packaged goods, renewable energy, and natural products. She received her BA in Political Science from Yale University and her MBA from Harvard Business School.

annie@growingimpact.co

https://www.growingimpact.co/

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https://everscoreconnect.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/everscore/

https://www.instagram.com/everscore_lifestyle/

https://twitter.com/shopeverscore

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Bryan Passman is the Founder + Head Hunter at the retained executive cannabis search firm Hunter + Esquire.

Bryan is globally renowned in executive search and advisory in the Cannabis, MedTech/ Pharma/Biotech, and Food & Beverage (FMCG) Consumer Packaged Goods industries.

Bryan's hiring partners have included small and large NA and LATAM based cannabis companies, hundreds of startup and blue chip companies in the Healthcare life sciences and (food and adult beverage) Consumer Packaged Goods industries as well Tech and Packaging companies serving the CPG and Hospitality industries.

Before co-founding Hunter + Esquire, Bryan spent 18 years as an SVP Recruitment and Client Leader at retained search agencies where he and his teams were responsible for successfully managing talent searches globally. Bryan has spent his entire career succeeding in retained executive search, with a foundation of classical training by the MRINetwork and Dale Carnegie.

Hunter + Esquire's hiring partners benefit greatly from Bryan's ability to communicate, train and execute on the intricacies of the "high-touch" executive search and talent acquisition process as well as from his eye for talent, and "fit".

Bryan's unwavering commitment to hard work, transparency, candid communication, attention to detail, follow-up, passion for what he does & creative problem-solving are some of the cornerstones to his success.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryanpassman/

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Jerry Abiog currently serves as a Co-Founder and CMO of Standard Insights - an AI as a Service growth marketing platform. Their solution helps companies worldwide across many different verticals address the challenges of leveraging customer data to drive growth.

“If two markets are pretty much guaranteed to make money over the next decade separately, it’s artificial intelligence and cannabis.” Forbes

He and his team are leading the charge of bridging the gap with AI and cannabis on sales and marketing. The industry will see a reduction in margins as legalization grows. For those wanting a competitive edge, implementing AI into their tech stack could be the answer.

https://standardinsights.io/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jerryabiog/

jerry@standardinsights.io

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Hart is the CEO of Green Check Verified, the leading provider of cannabis banking solutions and expert advisory services for financial institutions. He is an experienced, passionate, team-oriented leader that has held executive positions in venture backed technology companies.

Hart specializes in developing strategic plans coupled with organizational development with strong metric driven execution to achieve the next level of results. His diverse experience includes strategic planning, start-up and/or expanded business strategies, organizational development, sales organizations, and operational execution. All with with exceptional executive relationships and BOD development.

https://greencheckverified.com/

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Darwin Millard is an active member of ASTM International’s technical committee D37 on Cannabis which is an international group dedicated to the development of voluntary consensus standards for the global cannabis/hemp industry. Darwin is the Subcommittee Vicechair of D37.04 on Processing and Handling of Cannabis and Cannabis-derived Products, and the Co-chair of Subcommittee D37.07 on Industrial Hemp. He has been active in cannabis policy change and an advocate of the cannabis plant for over a decade.

Darwin Millard specializes in mechanical and solvent based extraction methodologies for isolating highly volatile terpenophenolic secondary metabolites from botanicals. For the past 15-years, Darwin has been focusing on the extraction and manufacture of nutraceutical products comprising of phytocannabinoids and other bioactive constituents from the cannabis plant. He works with clients to design and implement cost-effective built-for-purpose phytocannabinoid processing and herbal product manufacturing solutions.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/darwinmillard/

https://www.instagram.com/thespockofcannabis/

www.thespockofcannabis.com

www.finalbell.com

www.finalbell.ca

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New York City-based entrepreneur Steven Phan has been an activist in the cannabis space for nearly a decade, where he also spent time working for a CBD company and noticed a need for peer-to-peer interaction. While operating the company’s live chat, even after providing extensive customer service, individuals still wanted to see and speak to someone physically. Overcoming decades of stigma and re-familiarizing people with the cannabis plant became the driving force behind Phan's first business QuadDeuceNil (QDN) which he launched in 2014. The urban cannabis lifestyle brand became a platform and collective to educate and change misperceptions creating an even more enlightened community. In 2018, he opened Come Back Daily, an experiential CBD retail store in Tribeca. Using a hands-on approach supported by knowledgeable staff, customers are encouraged to sample CBD products and learn about how cannabis can benefit their lifestyle. Since then, Come Back Daily has opened two more locations in Manhattan and Phan has continued to play an active role as a leader in the community.

His opinions on industry topics and issues such as hemp legalization, the FDA’s crackdown on CBD, and earning support to legalize cannabis from legislators of color have been published media outlets that includes Crains NY, Gotham Gazette, Business Insider, the Daily Marijuana Observer, Marijuana Business Magazine among others. He participates in panel discussions; from Decoded Future, a major change-makers summit held in NYC and London to more intimate conversations about entering the cannabis industry, where he spoke with interested students at Columbia’s Business School on how to develop a successful business and brand. In October of 2019, Come Back Daily received the award for best CBD company at the NYC NORML Awards show that also highlighted Steven’s continued work in the industry.

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Matthew received his PhD in Chemistry from the University of Texas at Austin and has since worked on developing methodologies for transferring bench scale research to manufacturing production. He currently works at Benuvia Manufacturing to further the development of clinical quality psychadelics and cannabinoids for use in clinical trials to treat all ranges of indications from anxiety and depression all the way to pain relief and appetite management.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mmoore09/

https://benuviamanufacturing.com/

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Delano Phillips serves as General Counsel and Head of Business Development/Compliance at Hana, a vertically integrated cannabis company based in Tempe, Arizona. He oversees a diverse portfolio of brand assets for the organization including product lines Dutchie and Revival Infused Edibles. In addition, he leads projects related to cultivation expansion, acquisitions, dispensary operations, R&D, and product launch. An executive leader at Hana since 2019, Delano was instrumental in brokering the company’s acquisition and managerial transition between the previous and new ownership group.

Prior to entering the cannabis space, Delano spent more than fifteen years in the financial services sector managing tens of millions of dollars in assets for clients at highly recognized firms such as Merrill Lynch, UBS and E*Trade. During this time, he secured his Series 6 and Series 63, Series 7 and Series 66 investment licenses, and state insurance producer’s license to his portfolio of achievements.

Delano received his combined Business & Sociology undergraduate degree from Arizona State and added his Juris Doctor in 2012. Beyond his professional career, Delano has committed to youth leadership through volunteer work with organizations including Junior Achievement, The First Tee, and coaching high school football. He is dedicated to educating youth and adults on topics including substance abuse, the justice system, and the importance of education.

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Bryan McLaren is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Zoned Properties, a publicly traded, strategic real estate development firm for emerging and highly regulated industries. McLaren has accrued over a decade of experience in social, economic, and environmental development of complex business organizations with a focus on sustainability in emerging industries. As a certified and licensed realtor, Green Roof Professional, LEED Green Associate, and former City Sustainability Commissioner, McLaren provides compliant real estate, zoning, permitting, and operational expertise to Zoned Properties and its clients. McLaren’s expertise in community organizing has been a vital approach for client projects. He has navigated state regulatory programs as an advisor in over ten cannabis markets for over 100 development projects.

Prior to his role at Zoned Properties, McLaren worked as a Sustainability Consultant for Waste Management where he led the strategic development and operational implementation of zero-waste programs for Higher Education clients. McLaren has worked as a Sustainability Program Manager in the Higher Education industry and has been appointed as a City Sustainability Commissioner. Sustainable development has been a life-long passion for McLaren, who strives to create a global impact by forging a strong foundation for principles of sustainability in emerging industries.

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Jon Purow is Counsel in the New York law office of Zuber Lawler. Jon specializes in cannabis regulatory and transactional matters, as well as general intellectual property litigation and transactions. He helps spearhead Zuber Lawler’s team in New York and New Jersey as these states . He focuses on how constantly evolving cannabis state and federal laws and regulations impact his clients and their brands.

Jon is also the host of the podcast Cannabis Last Week from Global Cannabis Times, "News & Analysis Extract From 420+”. Jon earned his B.A. from Brown University and his J.D. from Cardozo School of Law.

https://zuberlawler.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanpurow/#

jpurow@zuberlawler.com

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Eric is a media sales professional & leader specializing in interactive, programmatic, mobile, and ad tech with 25 years of CPG & retail experience. Having worked in both start-up environments and some of the most recognizable media and digital companies in the world, Eric founded Good Harvest Co. in 2018 to transition his expertise and help innovate the way cannabis brands reach their desired consumers, and the way non-endemic brands reach cannabis consumers.

In early 2020, Good Harvest Co. was acquired by Surfside, an end-to-end compliant marketing technology that aggregates 1st party data across all customer touch-points, allowing advertisers the ability to better understand, target and measure how to influence current and future customers.

Our expertise in retailer and shopper marketing augments Surfside's largest cannabis and CBD consumer dataset based on proprietary purchase, location and behavioral data.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericmeth/

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Launched in early 2020, Sleepy Bear was born with one idea in mind: to provide a natural nighttime option that customers could trust to not only be effective but most importantly safe.

Sleepy Bear was founded by Kyle Paradiso, a former army ranger, whose service injuries guided him into research involving the use of cannabis and other homeopathic remedies for medical intervention.

After suffering a series of spinal cord injuries in 2016, Kyle was forced into medical retirement which ended his 6-year military career. Kyle was left in an all-too-common position for our nation’s veterans: dealing with lifelong injuries and chronic pain in a government healthcare system with little to no medical options to offer. Before his injuries, Kyle maintained a staunch opposition to cannabis. At a standstill with other alternatives and with the help of friends and family, he began treating himself with cannabis. Kyle soon realized that his world of wellness and treatment would never be the same again.

Having seen the folly of his ways, he vowed to dedicate his life to addressing the stigma that had so indoctrinated him and countless other veterans against the use of cannabis. Kyle pushed toward the academic field and began working at The Citadel Military College of South Carolina as a Veteran liaison. During Kyle’s work with other veterans, he quickly discovered many had eerily similar stories to his own. It was not long before he discovered the depth of struggles that veterans were facing behind closed doors. This led him to pursue a graduate degree in California, looking to expand his knowledge of the systemic issues behind the widespread stigma against veteran cannabis use.

While working on his graduate degree, the 2018 Farm Bill was passed, legalizing hemp products nationwide. With this legalization came a flood of subpar CBD products emerging on the market. It was during this time he realized a glaring lack of scientifically minded and effectively formulated products and saw an opportunity to create a better class of products, hoping to further the narrative for change. It was with this passion and heart that he created Sleepy Bear which soon found its way into stores nationwide and the bedroom of thousands of happy and sleepy customers!.

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James Yi founded Leaf Trade in 2016 after seeing firsthand the inefficiencies in the cannabis supply chain. Since then, he has led company strategy and execution to ensure that Leaf Trade delivers innovation, value, and happiness to its stakeholders. In this nascent industry, James stands apart as someone with both keen industry understanding and proven technology experience, having previously co-founded NextME, a B2B software provider across multiple industries including restaurants and healthcare, and serving as a cannabis industry consultant. He holds a bachelor’s degree in international studies from DePaul University. When he’s not battling inefficiencies in the cannabis supply chain, James enjoys battling dinosaurs and Spiderman with his son, as well as reading, swimming, playing the piano, and camping.

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Max Armstrong is a Founding Member and General Manager of Learn Brands, an educational platform built for the cannabis industry. He specializes in product and business development. His goal is to make quality education and cannabis knowledge easily accessible to all industry employees and consumers. He believes that through education, federal recognition and standard business regulation will become a reality for the cannabis industry.

Max has led Learn Brands to become an industry leading technology platform. Learn Brands currently works with hundreds of the largest cannabis brands and retailers across the U.S.. During his time at Learn Brands, Max has launched five new service offerings, leading to over 600% revenue growth in the last three years.

Max is a Colorado native and holds a BA in Communications, Environmental Studies, and a Minor in Oceanic and Atmospheric Studies from the University of Colorado. Outside of the office, his time is spent in the backcountry fly fishing and skiing.

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Following a decades long career in the securities business, Matt came to LEVIA with a desire to be part of something from the very beginning. In early 2018 he met the Brosnans and Rogers through a former colleague and was quickly wrapped up into the ever changing world of recreational cannabis, and the vision of bringing superior cannabis infused beverages to Massachusetts. Born and raised in Acton Massachusetts, and now living in Marblehead, with his wife Beth Ann, daughter Elorie, identical twin sons Wells and Grey, and golden retriever Basin, Matts connections to the area run deep. He has tremendous pride in building a local business and its ability to support the community. Away from LEVIA, you can find Matt hanging at Higgins Beach in Maine, chasing a golf ball, or working with the Bruyette Family Foundation on a myriad of charitable causes.

http://levia.buzz/

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Erik Paulson grew up in San Diego, CA, and received his Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from the University of California, Riverside. He continued his studies in Riverside to obtain a teaching credential, and then taught high school chemistry in Burbank, CA for five years. His passion for learning brought him back to San Diego to study organometallic chemistry in the Joint Doctoral Program at San Diego State University and the University of California, San Diego. His projects involved development of catalysts for the selective migrations of double bonds in organic molecules. Erik's focus since joining Infinite in 2019 has been the validation and development of potency, residual solvent, and terpenes analyses.

https://infinitecal.com/

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Russell Thomas is the Founder and CEO of LifeTonic, a division of Natural Extraction Systems. Instead of solvents, LifeTonic uses a proprietary Evaporative ExtractionTM process that uses heated air to gently extract CBD and terpenes from hemp. Evaporative Extraction combines extraction, activation, and refinement into a single step to produce a potent, high terpene content, premium full-spectrum extract. Cannabinoids and beneficial terpenes are evaporated in seconds directly from dry plant material to produce extracts with vastly superior terpene content. LifeTonic’s Evaporative ExtractionTM process is protected by 37 granted and pending US and international patents. LifeTonic is the only supplier in the world to offer hemp extract utilizing this

process.

Russell was also instrumental in bringing LifeTonic’s ionized cannabinoid products to market. Cannabinoids are oil based - and water and oil do not mix. While the rest of the industry has pursued methods to mix oil and water, LifeTonic did it completely differently. Ionized CBDTM is not a water solubilized oil suspension, nano-emulsion or liposomal encapsulation. Ionized CBD is a deprotonated CBD salt that dissolves completely in water and water-based liquids and is long-term shelf-stable. Since ionized cannabinoid products are dissolved vs. emulsified, they present a rapid onset that is noticeable as little as 2 - 3 minutes.

In addition to co-founding LifeTonic and Natural Extraction Systems, Russell also invented many of their core technologies. Russell has a unique ability to identify critical gaps in markets and inspire invention in both himself and others. His best inventions and ideas are through passionate collaboration with team members. In total, Russell has been an inventor in over 150 patents and patent applications spanning from cleantech and automotive technologies in his former career, to LifeTonic’s current extraction technologies and drug and supplement technologies.

Russell attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as an undergraduate majoring in mechanical engineering. He postponed his education and left MIT in good standing to found his first startup venture.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/russell-thomas-37345b8/

https://lifetonic.com/

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Bethany Moore is NCIA’s Deputy Director of Communications, responsible for member-facing communications including blogs, newsletters, video projects, and NCIA’s weekly podcast. Bethany has extensive experience in non-profit activism work, including drug policy reform and church-state separation issues. Bethany spent over three years working for the National Foreign Language Center at the University of Maryland until 2006, as well as Radio Free Asia. From 2006-2008, she spent two years as the campaign manager of the First Freedom First campaign at Americans United for Separation of Church and State, while also volunteering with the Maryland chapter of Americans for Safe Access (a medical marijuana patient advocacy group). From 2011-2013, Bethany served as a multimedia project manager for an international finance and investment firm. She has a strong background in project management and strategic planning, as well as communications and public relations. She enjoys writing and self-publishing poetry. Bethany is originally from the Washington, D.C. area and relocated to Denver in January 2014 to work at NCIA.

www.TheCannabisIndustry.Org

Twitter: @BeatnikBetty, @NCIAorg

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Dana is the co-founder and CEO of Triminator, the global leader in cannabis and hemp processing equipment. Founded in 2010, Triminator designs and manufactures equipment to streamline the harvesting process for farmers big and small. Dana grew up in Grass Valley, CA, an area with a longstanding history of Cannabis production, and holds a bachelor’s in business from the University of Colorado, Boulder.

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Matt brings an extensive background in building large alternative investment firms and scaling the companies he invests in. In 2014, Matt had a vision to create the leading private equity firm focused specifically on investing in the legalized cannabis industry. Prior work highlights:

Partner and President, Tucson Capital Partners - Private equity firm focused on multifamily residential and self-storage assets. Between 2008 and 2013, the company completed more than 55 bank-direct acquisitions, deploying over $500MM of capital. He successfully exited in 2013.

Principal & Co-founder of Adjacent Capital - Private equity/specialty lending fund where he oversaw the sourcing, origination, structuring and closing of over 60 transactions in a 3 year period.

He also became a turnaround specialist through his time at Treadstone Partners and San Jacinto Partners. He is known and respected in the cannabis industry as one of the successful early investors.

https://entourageeffectcapital.com/

https://twitter.com/eeffectcapital?lang=en

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Kieve is a successful entrepreneur and innovation executive with a proven track record of success in cannabis, music, digital marketing and media technology. He has founded five companies and created new divisions within larger organizations five times. He has been a founder at three cannabis companies that have raised over $25 million. He grew the digital business at BMG from sub $1mm to over $125mm in revenues.

His current company, Engager Brands, is a portfolio of cannabis lifestyle brands that focus on serving audiences that have been under-marketed to but over-index in consumption for cannabis. Having worked on over 60 cannabis brand projects at his previous company, PRØHBTD Media, he brings a wealth of insight into what brands are built for global success.

www.engagerbrands.com

www.linkedin.com/company/engager-brands

www.theheavygrass.com

IG: heavygrassofficial

m.facebook.com/heavygrassofficial/

www.industrialstrengthcannabis.com

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Riaan du Plooy is a Chemical Engineer-turned-Business Improvement Executive who is passionate about creating big value for people and organizations. As the CEO of Cannsult, Inc., Riaan does more than wrangle the strategic direction and execution of his own business. He partners with organizations worldwide to confront massive changes and challenges to deliver large-scale benefits such as increased growth, capacity, revenue, profitability, scalability, employee engagement and customer satisfaction.

With 20+ years of experience as a hands-on practitioner of business improvement, Riaan, as featured in the Top 50 Australian Professionals Magazine, has rolled up his sleeves and isn't scared to get his hands dirty at every organizational level from the front line to the board room. With experience in Consumer Goods, Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare and in the largest breweries in the world, Riaan was ready and able to enter the Cannabis industry as it crawled out of the shadows of the black market and emerged into a legitimate multi-billion dollar industry.

Riaan and his team stepped in to support organizations to build an infrastructure that could thrive amidst the constant changes of an emerging industry, the onslaught of regulatory and statutory changes, the massive leaps in growth and the hyperactivity with Mergers and Acquisitions. Riaan has worked with Cannabis functions such as Sales & Marketing, Packaging, Distribution, Legal, Finance & Accounting, IT, Human Resources, Branding and Design, Warehouse Management and Strategic Alliances.

https://www.cannsult.org

https://cannsult-online-training.thinkific.com

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https://www.thetop100magazine.com/riaan-du-plooy

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Justin Robinson is the founder of Lantern, among the leading on-demand cannabis ecommerce and delivery platforms in the U.S., and a co-founder of Drizly, the largest ecommerce alcohol marketplace in North America.

Lantern brings transparency, safety, and convenient access to cannabis by connecting recreational cannabis consumers and patients to its network of local, licensed dispensaries and third-party delivery partners through an intuitive digital shopping experience. The platform is powered by Drizly, leader in regulated marketplace technologies, marketing, and operational expertise to support best-in-class consumer and retailer experiences.

Prior to Lantern, Justin co-founded Drizly in 2013 and most recently served as SVP of New Business. Under his leadership, Drizly’s network grew to 2,200+ retailer partners who reach consumers of legal drinking age in 235+ markets across North America. The company is backed by world-class institutional investors and has raised over $119 million to date, most recently closing its $50M Series C round in August 2020 following 350% YoY growth. He was recognized in the prestigious Forbes “30 Under 30” List in 2015.

Justin holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Boston College. He currently lives in Boston.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-robinson-3b059614/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lanterncannabis/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/LanternCannabis/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lanterncannabis/

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Nohtal Partansky is the CEO of Sorting Robotics, a Y Combinator backed startup based in Los Angeles, CA. Nohtal started his professional career working at NASA-JPL building the MOXIE Instrument; a device that is currently producing oxygen on the surface of Mars. After completing the MOXIE project at NASA, Nohtal had a desire to start his own robotics company so in 2018 he left JPL and started Sorting Robotics. Sorting Robotics initially built inventory management robotics for e-commerce companies, but wanting to grow bigger Nohtal applied and was accepted into Y Combinator. After getting into YC, Sorting Robotics targeted the cannabis automation market and started building robots for cannabis manufacturers. In 2020, after seeing a need in the market for contract packaging, Nohtal started Rise Co-Packing a cannabis co-packing company based in Oakland, CA. Now, Nohtal is focused on building out the automation infrastructure in the cannabis sector to bring the industry into the 21st century with ramp up to national legalization.

https://www.instagram.com/jikojoints/

https://www.jikojoints.com/

https://www.sortingrobotics.com/

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Quinn Shiskin is a talented technician who has transformed his skills as a dual ticketed Red Seal tradesman into becoming a creative and knowledgeable Director of Products & Innovation at The Valens Company. In his current role, he serves as the strategic link between the commercial business team (business development, sales, marketing and products) and the operational team (extraction, purification, isolation and value add manufacturing), connecting business plans with plant operations/execution, R&D, and Quality/RA to ensure successful execution of innovation, productivity, capacity and capital expenditures to deliver against revenue and margin targets.

Prior to joining Valens, Mr. Shiskin founded Red Rain Welding; an industrial construction company, which for twelve years was involved in some of the world’s largest projects in oil and gas mining, construction of high-rise buildings, laying of pipelines, and commercial developments. During these years Mr. Shiskin used his spare time to study every aspect of the cannabis industry, familiarizing himself with processing cannabis from seed to oil. He focused on cannabinoid extraction and purification by taking courses with some of the top cannabis alchemists in the U.S.

Mr. Shiskin was instrumental in developing Valens’ award-winning extraction platform from the ground up by designing and implementing commercial production practices in the diverse offerings of CO2, ethanol, solventless, terpene and hydrocarbon extraction methods. The platforms developed at Valens are a global standard of commercial cannabis production, leading the way in innovation and new product offerings.

Quinn’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/qshisk/

Valens Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thevalenscompany/

Valens LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/thevalenscompany/

Valens Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thevalenscompany/

Valens Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheValensCo

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Kevin Greene is a father, mentor, compassionate community member and successful entrepreneur. He has been focused on the equitable development of community and business his entire professional career and continues to commit to having a social impact through economic growth and advancement of his communities. With ownership of two successful startups-Faces International Marketing and Development, and the Cleveland School of Cannabis- he has years of experience developing successful teams. As a VP for the Cleveland School of Cannabis, his role has been crucial in the growth of the student body, partnership development, and community engagement. Mr. Greene’s successes have led the way to a multiple city expansion of CSC and a robust student body serving students between the ages of 18 and 67. Understanding that relationships are vital when developing an ecosystem of prosperity has been his core value. As COO of Faces International he has lead strategies over the last decade with clients ranging from small businesses and city governments to non-profits of all sizes, he has been tasked with creating a culture of inclusion and participation to assist in Economic development and comprehensive initiatives. With the urge to make an impact on the youth, Kevin has Co-Founded R2C2 Inc, a youth development Non-Profit Organization that works to advance teens from disenfranchised populations. Continuing in the space of service he has furthered his impact by board participation with organizations such as the United Way, Valley Youth House, Lehigh Valley Chamber, and the Community Action Lehigh Valley. Mr. Greene continues to make it known that he is always willing to roll up his sleeves and do the grunt work in efforts to advance all facets of community and business.

https://csceducation.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-greene-48b5b7b7/

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Nicole Brown serves as Chief Innovation Officer for Open Book Extracts (OBX), an ingredient manufacturer and product development house focused on cannabinoid-enabled health and wellness, located in North Carolina. As Chief Innovation Officer, Nicole channels data-driven consumer insights into a long-term course of action, delivering immediately usable innovation, and drives awareness and thought leadership by overseeing strategic marketing efforts, including PR, event marketing, advertising, and partnerships.

Prior to joining OBX, Nicole served as CMO for Citymaps -- a social mapping technology platform optimized for travelers -- culminating in the acquisition of Citymaps by TripAdvisor in 2016. After the acquisition, Nicole served as Senior Director of Global Business Development for TripAdvisor from 2016 to 2019. Previously, she held management roles at LVMH and Shiseido Cosmetics, focused on product development and commercialization in the beverage and beauty sectors, respectively. Nicole graduated from Harvard University with an honors degree in French Literature and a minor in Organic Chemistry.

https://openbookextracts.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/nbrown5/

nicole@openbookextracts.com

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Matthew Mograbi oversees U.S. operations for Eybna, a pioneering technology company and terpene manufacturer with US HQ offices in California and R&D centers in Israel and Colorado. With a forward-thinking Research & Development team, comprised of highly accomplished Ph.D. scientists and engineers, Eybna researches the therapeutic benefits of cannabis phytochemicals to advance the mission of enhancing the health of mankind. Eybna’s extensive proprietary database of cannabis phytochemicals, alongside partnerships with academia and leading industry professionals, allow the company to consistently integrate advanced research in the process of product development, transforming valuable scientific knowledge into easily applicable products that serve the needs and enhance the experiences of consumers worldwide.

https://www.linkedin.com/company/eybna/

https://www.eybna.com/

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Jose is a business executive working towards the promotion of health and wellness through the democratization of medical cannabis. His expertise includes strategy design, financial management and venture building. He enjoys generating new ideas that could create feasible solutions to current and relevant problems. His coworkers would say he's a resourceful and proactive professional, with a constant positive attitude.

jose@futurafarms.pe

https://futura-farms.com/

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Ashley, a thought leader in cannabis banking and payments, is an expert in fintech and financial law. She began her career on the financial regulatory team at Sidley Austin in NYC where she handled SEC and state regulatory compliance for public and private financial offerings and was instrumental to long term internal regulatory audits of an $800B+ global investment firm, saving the firm $40M+ in fines.

www.arterypay.com

https://www.nacb.com/

https://www.nacb.com/

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Rob Mejia is an Adjunct Professor at Stockton University where he teaches the Introduction to Medical Cannabis and Preparation for Cannabis Internship classes. As one of the leads for the hemp/cannabis internship program he has helped place dozens of students in valuable internships. He is also creating new curriculum for the cannabis studies department focusing on social justice and cannabis and integrated cannabis media. He is often called upon to speak about cannabis at events and to diverse audiences.

In addition to his teaching duties, Rob is President of Our Community Harvest: A Minority-Owned Cannabis Education company and is an established author. His company provides cannabis education to the public, business owners, and governmental officials. His authorship includes The Essential Cannabis Book: A Field Guide for the Curious, The Essential Cannabis Journal: Personal Notes from the Field and numerous magazine articles.

He recently helped establish CHRIS -the Cannabis & Hemp Research Initiative at Stockton- as a hemp and non-medical research hub and cannabis education center. One of the first events that CHRIS hosted was a Cannabis Curriculum Convening which attracted over 30 cannabis professors from across the country.

www.ourcommunityharvest.com

https://stockton.edu/cannabis-hemp-research-initiative/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-mejia-60a591173

www.CannabisArtAndDesign.com

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Launched one day after the Covid-19 lockdown, Union Electric has rapidly become one of California’s hottest cannabis brands (partnering with the most exclusive distributor in the state), offering premium flower fairly priced to everyday working-class consumers who have been priced out of top-shelf brands.

Union Electric not only smells and tastes great, but it champions the people, the evolution of the industry, and the social acceptance of legal cannabis in local communities through a 2% giveback program, political advocacy and industry leadership.

Max has led Union Electric successfully through their first year in business. Union Electric is offering their first crowdfunding campaign as an extension of their thesis: Letting the average cannabis consumer own shares in their favourite weed brand for just $100 (something that’s unheard of in the space — UE's the first cannabis brand of this stature to ever do this).

max@opennest.co

https://republic.co/union-electric

https://unionelectric.co/

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Stuart Tomc is Vice President of Science, Regulation & Education at CV Sciences™, makers of PlusCBD™. With over 30 years of experience in the nutritional health industry, Stuart is regarded as an authority on functional foods and dietary supplements. Prior to joining CV Sciences, Stuart was Spokesperson and Global Educator for omega-3 market leader, Nordic Naturals, and Vice President of North American Herb and Spice. Stuart joined CV Sciences in 2014 to help launch PlusCBD and the hemp CBD evolution.

https://www.facebook.com/CVSciences

https://www.instagram.com/cvsciences/

https://twitter.com/CV_Sciences

https://www.youtube.com/CVSciencesInc

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Robert is a sales and marketing specialist whose career was previously focused on successfully bringing luxury real estate brands to market across North America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.

After returning from a decade of living and working overseas, Robert felt it was time for a change in his personal and business life. A passionate believer in the healing and elevating powers of cannabis and other forms of plant medicine, Robert decided to join the cannabis movement. Shortly thereafter, Robert co-founded ALT, a cannabis and lifestyle platform backed by science.

ALT's mission is to Enhance Human Potential through premium forms of liquid cannabis developed using the company's proprietary nanotechnology processes. ALT's revolutionary beverage enhancing products are available across California delivering consumers completely unique and elevated cannabis experiences.

In addition to retail, ALT's technology empowers 3rd party beverage and edible products through the company's wholesale and white-label business.

https://altlife.com/

robert@altlife.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertbrooksdavis/

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For a few years he worked his way through almost every one of the positions across the cannabis vertical. He has held cultivation management positions, dispensary positions, and eventually was the director of compliance for Boulder Kind Care. After helping a couple other local vertically integrated companies transition from Medical to Dual/Medical & Recreational companies in the Colorado market, he then went to work for MJ Freeway as an Operational Implementation Specialist. Having been a beta user of MJ Freeway and the only one with perspective on “both sides” of the software, he was responsible for the implementation and “go live” of well over 400 operations in the cannabis industry, across the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, and Spain, Including the first 4 dispensaries in 4 states (NV, MN, AK, FL). He has spoken at countless conferences and events, trained thousands of operators on both Cannabis plant/product knowledge, compliance, tools/software, and helped create a lot of their educational content and SOP documentation.

After 3 years, he then went to work for Canna Advisors (one of the most prestigious, professional, and successful consulting companies in the industry) as their Director of Client operations, advising both pre-license and post-license clients on operational set-up and efficiencies. He also created their Strategic Partner Program, negotiating deals for their high-quality clients with vendors of ancillary cannabis products. He even represented a client as an expert witness in an appeals case where he spent over an hour taking questions from the State AG, they got the license. Since then, he has helped multiple start-ups as Director of Operations and Chief Strategy Officer, primarily in the California Market.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/tyler-stratford-7ab7b254/

tyler@stratfordcannabisconsulting.com

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With 15+ years of brand-building and consumer marketing experience serving American Express, MasterCard, PepsiCo and Microsoft, David has participated in developing and marketing many of today’s best-known brands. His career focus has been on brand strategy, brand development, brand management and integrated marketing. He has developed, activated and led comprehensive marketing programs designed to connect brands with relevant communities in consistent, credible, and meaningful ways. Since entering the cannabis industry in 2012, David has created profitable partnerships while working as the VP, Licensing & Brand Partnerships at DOPE Magazine and crafted award-winning, cannabis-infused products as the Chief Brand Officer at Evergreen Herbal. David is perhaps best known for his writings and thought-leadership on cannabis branding and marketing. His writings have been featured in Forbes, Kiplingers, The Brookings Institution, The Green Report, Green Entrepreneur, Dope Magazine, High Times, PROHBTD, Cannabis Dispensary Magazine, MG, The Cannabis Industry Journal, A Different Leaf, Skunk Magazine, and New Cannabis Ventures, among others. David’s book, “Branding Bud: The Commercialization of Cannabis” – the first book on cannabis branding – released in April 2021 and ramped to be the #1 best-selling book on Amazon in the “Branding & Logo Design” and “Green Business” categories. As Founder of PALESCHUCK, LLC, David consults to those wanting to enter or already in the legal cannabis industry on product development, branding & brand licensing, positioning, packaging and promotions.  

https://www.brandingbud.com

https://www.paleschuck.com

david@brandingbud.com

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Brian worked in media, education, business development, marketing, technology, and entertainment for many years before launching Value Integrators. Now, Brian advises business owners, entrepreneurs, and independent contractors on how to manage their outreach, sales, customer service processes, marketing, advertising, and communication strategies in efficient and cost-effective ways.

Essentially, Brian is an advisor, educator, and strategist who has a strong inclination towards motivating others and making a difference. He is part of an awesome collective of talented and experienced people, and together, they create and unlock incredible value for a wide range of industries.

As a result of his experiences, Brian understands the importance of outreach, sales, customer service, marketing, advertising, communication strategies, and of course, being cost and time-efficient. The strongest arsenal of tools in his Success Toolbox are also Value Integrators’ key assets – their creative team of techies and think-tankers who analyze, build, and implement top-level solutions.

Brian's life purpose is: Helping people see that they are much more powerful than they realize.

https://valueintegrators.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianholler/

https://www.instagram.com/holler1012/

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Rob Woodbyrne is the Chief Executive Officer at Regrow, based in San Diego, USA. Rob is an experienced leader with a demonstrated history of bringing innovative, disruptive technology to market. As a professional with a proven track record in cloud solutions, SaaS, PaaS, Enterprise Software, Partner Management, and Enterprise Architecture, Rob & the Regrow organization are focused on helping cannabis businesses manage their supply chain to grow more cannabis!

https://regrow.io/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rwoodbyrne/

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As a partner at Hiller PC, David's practice focuses on corporate, securities, and financing matters for public and private companies, investment banks, private equity firms, and high-net-worth individuals. He's considered a leading authority on alternatives to traditional initial public offerings, including the new Regulation A+. David published a book on that subject, called Regulation A+ and Other Alternatives to a Traditional IPO (John Wiley & Sons), in 2018. Since 2013 he has also been representing companies and investors in the emerging cannabis industry. In fact, in April 2019 the global guide Chambers & Partners ranked him as a leading US attorney in cannabis law and one of only seven US lawyers in "band 1" for corporate and transactional work in the industry.

In addition, in October 2018 the National Law Journal named him a "Cannabis Law Trailblazer" and in January 2019 Business Insider named him as a top lawyer in the cannabis industry. David also published The Entrepreneur's Growth Startup Handbook: 7 Secrets to Venture Funding and Growth Success (2013) and the award-winning Reverse Mergers and Other Alternatives to a Traditional IPO (First Edition 2006, Second Edition 2009). He also pens the "Blunt Legal Talk" column on cannabis law for Honeysuckle magazine and he's a contributor to Entrepreneur.com on cannabis issues. Additionally, David frequently speaks on cannabis as well as corporate matters and issues that small and mid-sized companies face, and is active on social media. He's also the co-founder, President & CEO of Skip Intro Advisors, LLC, a cannabis consulting firm focused on strategic advisory, financial consulting, branding, and technology.

https://skipintroadvisors.com/

http://www.hillerpc.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/hillerpc/

Twitter: @DavidNFeldman

Instagram: davidfeldman1000

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Russell Jaffe (www.drrusselljaffe.com ) has more than 40 years of experience contributing to molecular biology and clinical diagnostics. He pioneered “lymphocyte tests of immune function and hypersensitivity” and is focused on providing functional, predictive tests and procedures designed to improve the precision of both diagnosis and of treatment outcomes.

He received his B.S., MD and Ph.D. from the Boston University School of Medicine, completed residency training in clinical chemistry at the National Institutes of Health, and remained on the permanent senior staff before pursuing other interests, including starting the Health Studies Collegium think tank and MAGique BioTherapeutics. He is Founder and Chairman of PERQUE Integrative Health (PIH, www.PERQUEIntegrativeHealth.com) a company bringing the world scientifically proven, integrative health solutions that are helping speed the transition from sick care to healthful caring. PERQUE Integrative Health combines the premier PERQUE brand of nutraceuticals and the advanced lymphocyte response assay (LRA) for detecting delayed hypersensitivities from ELISA/ACT Biotechnologies.

Dr. Jaffe serves as Clinical Instructor of Clinical Leadership at the George Washington University School of Medical Sciences. He is board-certified in Clinical Pathology and in Chemical Pathology and the recipient of the Merck, Sharp & Dohm Excellence in Research Award, the J.D. Lane Award, and the U.S.P.H.S. Meritorious Service Award. Dr. Jaffe was honored as an International Scientist of 2003 by the IBC, Oxford, England, the UK for his lifetime contributions to clinical medicine, biochemistry, immunology, methodology, and integrative health policy.

https://www.drrusselljaffe.com/

https://www.facebook.com/rethinkhealth

https://www.linkedin.com/in/russell-jaffe-7a15693

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Cannabis Consultant , Mentor , “Radio Talk Show Host “(Haze Radio Network) Professional Moderator, Marketing , PR , Influencer, Licensing & Intellectual Property - Keynote Speaker.

25 Years in the Cannabis Industry. 10X High Times Canna Cup Winner & High Times top 50 Worldwide Canna Trailblazers Awarded in Wash, DC 2015.

4X Jack Herer Cup Winner with Awards in Cannabis Industry - Magazines, Cover Pages , Featured & Interviewed. Including Mainstream News & Media.

15 Years of Celebrity Licensing , Product Development & Branding. Canna Agent for Musicians , Athletes & Entertainment Celebs.

Launched Products /Branding /Licensing/PR for Peter Tosh, Riddick Bowe, Old Dirty Bastard, Digital Underground, Tha Alkaholiks, Jack Herrer, Anthrax , Motörhead , Jane’s Addiction , Baby Bash, Nick & Nate Diaz , King Moe (MMA) Charlo Greene , Los Marijuanos , Nathan Fletcher

Interviewed 250+ From Canna Industry & Participated in 75+ Exhibitions as Keynote Speaker - Booth Exhibitions

www.hazeradionetwork.com

Linked In - Andrew Pitsicalis

Clubhouse - Andrew Pitsicalis @hazemedia

Instagram - @haze.radio

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Lamarr is an 8 year NFL Veteran and Graduate of University of Texas in Corporate Communications (B.S.).

He furthered his education after retiring from football and is a Graduate of VC Unlocked from Berkley as well as in Business Process Analyst and and holds a Modeling Certificate from University of Texas.

Lamarr is a 500 Startups Alumni, and also founded League Ventures.

https://www.ezvending.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lamarr-houston-373a3ba9/

https://www.instagram.com/hupernikao9s/

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Co-founder of Shine Rolling Papers, Patrick Bryant loves the start-up process… that moment when you create something innovative that can scale… when you see that clear vision of how to get a unique product or service to everyone on the planet. And then build a company around it with talented creative people.

Shine Papers is the inventor of the worlds first ever 24 karat gold rolling paper. The brand quickly gained popularity and became the "go to" brand for those who celebrate all of life's highs.

Not only do Shine Papers turn every head in the room, but the papers also burn extremely slow while also leaving behind 24k gold in the ashtray.

The brand started out as cigars and thus the extreme focus on quality. Our gold papers were just the start, now our pure white rolling papers and very high end blunt tobacco wraps, Pure Leaf, are gaining popularity with smokers.

https://www.instagram.com/shinepapers/

https://www.instagram.com/bpatrickbryant/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickbryant/

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Ron is a Certified Franchise Executive and co-founder of Bud's Place Franchising, a franchisor of social cannabis consumption lounges and the only cannabis-related concept that is a member of the main franchising body in the US - the International Franchising Association. Bud's Place is a BYO lounge, with multiple revenue streams including memberships, food and beverage, retail of cannabis themed merchandise and accessories, VIP rooms, entertainment, special events, and more. A place that customers can have High. Quality. Fun. Bud's Place is currently awarding franchises in select territories, including California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, and Nevada, plus others. Become a Bud's Place franchisee and you can be a pioneer in a new industry plus you can build generational wealth for you and your family.

www.buds-place.com

rons@buds-place.com

1833 - 283 -7289

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Johnathan is the Director of Strategy at Hybrid Marketing Co, a cannabis-focused marketing agency with an impressive roster of clients spanning the U.S. and Canada. Prior to his entry into the cannabis industry, Johnathan earned his marketing bones in the fitness world, working with big brands and superstar athletes like NFL star Rob Gronkowski and UFC legend George St. Pierre. Marketing in a highly regulated industry forces you to think outside the box, and it was in this environment that he developed a content-driven mindset. At Hybrid Marketing Co, Johnathan builds creative marketing and advertising solutions that circumvent the tight restrictions placed on the rapidly growing cannabis industry.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnathanmcfarlane/

https://hybridmarketingco.com/

johnathan@hybridmarketingco.com

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Roxanne Dennant, 34, is a master at her craft in building brands in the cannabis industry. She is the Director of Marketing for 3C • Coast to Coast Cannabis. She is the former co-founder and CEO of Fruit Slabs, California’s premier healthy edibles, and has consulted for many other cannabis brands such as GoldDrop, The Clear, and Bon Vivant.

Her passion for cannabis, it’s medicinal benefits and the stories surrounding it have been Roxanne’s major driving force over the past ten-plus years.

Roxanne is an alumnus of Virginia Commonwealth University where her academic focus was the reformation of Cannabis Laws and she earned a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science.

Post college, Roxanne moved to New York City where she went on to explore various industries that spanned from art consulting, customized art creation, and brand ambassador for Leblon Cachaça. Roxanne learned experiences, skills and knowledge from outside industries she would learn to harness and ultimately bring with her into the cannabis space.

Roxanne attributes her passion for branding and team building from her time spent with the global giant, Red Bull. Since her time at RedBull, Roxanne has spearheaded sales for multiple international fabric and denim manufacturers in Los Angeles and been a part of the creative team in building multiple cannabis brands.

www.3CFarms.com

www.coasttocoast.shop

@3C.World

@3C.Farms

@3C.Coast

@3C.TheSecret

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_aNbcWVKdNiPes1FriOOWw

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