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A graduate of Babson College School of Entrepreneurial Studies.  Eric Rahn is an insurance broker specializing in hard to place coverages for domestic and multi-national companies. Eric has held many executive positions in regulated industries including the maritime and casino industries prior to becoming an insurance broker. He transitioned is knowledge of corporate business practices into becomi...

Laurence Horowitz is an Investor Relations Analyst for Entourage Effect Capital, a private cannabis investment fund. He recently graduated from the University of Michigan majoring in Sport Management and minoring in Entrepreneurship. While there, I was the President of the University of Michigan chapter of Green Wolverine,  the first cannabis student organization at a public university; A national...

Daniel has led top real estate investment and leasing firms in California for over 15 years advising many of the retail industries largest institutional landlords and retailers in connection with expansion plans. He has a multi-billion-dollar track record in retail property acquisitions, dispositions, and leases throughout his career. In Fall of 2018 Daniel decided to venture to the cannabis indus...

Thomas Meredith, Co-Founder of Blaze Staffing & Recruiting and CEO of Genesis Global Workforce Solutions, has over 30 years of successful business leadership experience. As a proven expert of designing and delivering a company strategic vision, attracting and developing top notch executives teams, building a corporate culture to flourish, motivate and maintain a company’s overall continued growth,...

Eric Stevens helped launch Florida’s Medical Marijuana Yes on 2 campaign with United for Care in 2013 with John Morgan and Ben Pollara. He served in every role, but settled in as the Campaign’s Finance Director from 2014-2016 The 2016 multi-million dollar statewide campaign effort passed with the highest margin of any medical marijuana question in any state ever at 71%. After that he served as dir...

Mr. Schenk is a Canadian born entrepreneur and investor with a proven track record of success within the transportation technology sector. He has previously developed and sold two telematics companies; Telkar based in Canada and Elcon based in Europe. In 2010 Schenk joined XATA following the acquisition of Turnpike Global and Geologic. Mr. Schenk was tasked with merging three distinct businesses i...

As the Founder/CEO of Minorities for Medical Marijuana, Inc., Roz McCarthy was named High Times 100 Most Influential People in the Cannabis Industry 2018. She is responsible for the day to day operation and is the chief strategist involved in developing advocacy, education, and marketing campaigns to promote awareness, information, and education about the efficacy of medical marijuana. It is a var...

Craig and Marc Wasserman, a.k.a the Pot Brothers at Law, California's Award Winning Marijuana Business and Criminal Defense Lawyers, serving Southern California. For over 30 years, The WassLaw Firm, has represented countless Marijuana Business clients from dispensaries, patient cooperatives, marijuana delivery services, cultivation, marijuana manufacturing, and criminal defense for marijuana relat...

Big Pete devoted himself to creating consistent, wonderful edibles that harness the healing power of cannabis-infused butter. After 6 years surfing and enjoying the good vibes in Hawaii, Pete returned to Santa Cruz to start his business in 2009, focused on helping people with medical cannabis. As the legalization movement swept through the West, Big Pete realized he couldn’t handle everything on h...

Morgan Paxhia is a co-founder and Managing Partner of Poseidon, one of the longest running funds in the cannabis industry.   With over ten years experience in investing and finance, Morgan has developed a deep understanding of individual company analysis, portfolio construction, and risk mitigation. Since 2012, he has dedicated his investment focus primarily to the cannabis industry. Given the lim...

Liz has nearly two decades of experience helping companies in healthcare, and emerging tech including bitcoin and drones, navigating highly regulated markets. As Regional President of Florida, she leads all of the Company’s business development, marketing, and operations in Florida. Before being named Regional President of Florida, Liz was the Company's Director of Operations in California. Liz ha...

Derek Thomas is vice president of Business Development at Veritas Farms, Inc (OTCQB: VFRM). Veritas Farms is a publicly traded company headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. It focuses on producing superior quality full-spectrum hemp oils and extracts made on its farm in Pueblo, Colorado. Thomas’ duties include developing and executing the company’s sales and marketing plans, advancing new pro...

Keegan Peterson is Founder and CEO of Würk, the leading human capital management company for the cannabis industry. Keegan founded Wurk in 2015 after recognizing that cannabis businesses didn’t have access to the same scalable HR technology solutions as mainstream companies.  Cannabis companies were repeatedly being dropped by workforce management vendors and Keegan saw the opportunity to build an...

Jeffrey Harris is Founder and CEO of springbig , a customer loyalty platform for the cannabis industry. springbig uses SMS, loyalty marketing, and other tools to encourage repeat business for cannabis retailers. Prior to spingbig, Harris founded a loyalty marketing company (Inte Q) which focused on developing and managing data driven programs for large retail and financial services firms.

A true entrepreneur first, Case also carries a formal business education mixed with extensive industry experience.  Case obtained a MBA from Humboldt State University, holds a B.S. from California Polytechnic University in San Luis Obispo, and resides in Humboldt county – a mecca for the marijuana movement.  In the time between undergraduate and graduate studies he worked in all levels of the Cann...

Tobi Lebowitz is the Executive Vice President of Legal Affairs, and brings extensive legal and human resources expertise to Jushi. Tobi recently served as the Associate General Counsel of KLX Inc. (formerly KLXI), where she played pivotal roles in the sale of its aerospace segment to Boeing for $4.25B and the spin-off of its energy segment into a new, publicly traded company (KLXE). Tobi earned he...

A native of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Todd is a graduate of Florida State University, with nearly three decades of marketing and business management experience. Todd has held marketing leadership roles for both Fortune 500 and start-up companies alike and established a consistent record of delivering record-setting results for initiatives under his leadership. Todd served for nearly a decade wit...

Jeremy Jacobs is the Chairman & CEO of Enlighten, a leading cannatech company that specializes in retail and marketing solutions, where he oversees technology development and delivery to clients. Jeremy is a lifelong entrepreneur, starting when he was six years old selling fruits and vegetables at his local farmer’s market. Jeremy brought his passion for creating innovative products of value to a...

Erica Daniels is the mother of a child with autism who is determined to give her son and family the highest quality of life possible.  Erica is the author of Cooking with Leo: An Allergen-Free Autism Family Cookbook; Founder of Hope Grows for Autism, a nonprofit aimed at improving the lives of families affected by autism through research, education and advocacy; Erica is an internationally recogni...

Cynthia is the Founder & President of the luxury cannabis brand House of Saka, as well as the Founder of the cannabis industry’s newswire and entrepreneur tech suite, AxisWire, and Co-founder to Green Market Media which is currently most recognized for its cannabis finance news publication Green Market Report and its conference series Green Market Summit. She is also a Co-founder of the network In...

A medical marijuana pioneer who uses his legal background to address marijuana policy reform as both an attorney and lobbyist, Brady Cobb cultivated his passion for the industry to found One Plant (formerly 3 Boys Farm, LLC) in October of 2018. The publicly-held One Plant, is a boutique-style medical marijuana company and that holds one of the fourteen medical marijuana treatment center (MMTC) lic...

Karson Humiston is the Founder & CEO of Vangst, the cannabis industry’s recruiting platform. Since launching in 2016, Vangst has connected thousands of people with jobs at over leading cannabis businesses around the World. Karson was featured on the 2018 Forbes 30 under 30 list and Vangst was featured in Entrepreneur’s 100 Brilliant Companies of 2018. Prior to founding Vangst, Karson founded On Tr...

Alex is the Co-Founder and CMO of Nugg, where he is responsible for the overall marketing strategy and analytics. Prior to founding Nugg, Alex served as Partnership & Affiliate Marketing Director at Withlocals. While there, he spearheaded business development through strategic partnerships for the company and created and managed the company’s affiliate marketing program. Alex also spent a year in...

After graduating from the United States Military Academy in 2004 and completing his service as an Apache helicopter pilot in 2011, Socrates set his sights on pursuing a graduate degree at MIT's Sloan School of Management as a Tillman Scholar. There he was able to open his mind to the entrepreneurial spirit and discover new ways to serve his country, community, and fellow veterans. During his time...

Prior to co-founding LeafLink, Ryan successfully started and exited two companies, one of which he sold to a NYSE public firm. Ryan brings his experience creating and managing B2B firms and online marketplace investment in highly-regulated spaces to cannabis as LeafLink’s Chief Executive Officer. In 2016, Ryan was the first CEO of a cannabis company to be listed on Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list. In Feb...