Cannabinoid Connect

Juliana Whitney is the Founder and president of Cann Strategy, a consulting firm helping cannabis business investors and operators win licenses, start up operations, expand to multiple states and develop competitive strategies.

Jesse Campoamor, is the owner of Campoamor & Sons, a creative, mission-driven Latino-owned consulting firm fueled by a passion for social justice and creating economic opportunity for historically excluded communities. Jesse is a veteran political operative and cannabis equity advocate with more than a decade of experience in New York State and City government. He worked with Governor Cuomo's offi...

Lewis Koski is the Chief Strategy Officer of Metrc. Metrc's approach to cannabis regulation helps state governments establish secure regulatory environments, allowing businesses in those jurisdictions to plan and prosper. Metrc's track-and-trace system helps state governments establish secure regulatory environments, allowing businesses in those jurisdictions to plan and prosper. Metrc is engaged...

Jill Ellsworth is the Founder and CEO of Willow Industries, the industry-leading organic cannabis kill step. WillowPure, the company's patented, organic ozone-based technology is scientifically proven to reduce or eliminate contaminants such as yeast, mold and bacteria from cannabis while protecting the medicinal properties of the plant. Prior to launching Willow Industries, Jill founded Vibrant E...

Nohtal Partansky is the Co-Founder and CEO of Sorting Robotics, the premier industrial automation technology company for the cannabis industry. Nohtal is a serial entrepreneur and former NASA-JPL engineer. During his time at NASA-JPL, Nohtal was assigned to a project called the Mars Oxygen In Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE), and the mission to develop a device that can take in the atm...

Daulton O'Neill is the President of Green Light Events, an event consultancy and production company that brings the industry together. Green Light also owns Texas cannabis TV and hemp business builder. Daulton O'Neill is a freethinking thought provoker looking to make maximum impact in the hemp industry. He leverages industry insights and relationships to push the ball forward to create unique mem...

Adam Stettner is the Founder and CEO of FundCanna, one of the leading lender in the cannabis industry. With over the past 20+ years, the FundCanna team of financial experts has provided nearly $20 Billion in funding to underserved businesses and individuals across the country. Adam has nearly 30 years of business, strategy and leadership experience in both Private and Public Companies. Among other...

Gary Santo is the CEO of TILT Holdings, an MSO helping cannabis companies build brands within specific markets. Mr. Santo brings more than 24 years of experience leading lean, high-performance teams in Consumer Credit, Financial Services, Gaming and Technology, Higher Education and Specialty-Pharma. He has held a variety of senior-level positions at The First Marblehead Corporation, Fitch Ratings,...

Jason Vegotsky is the CEO of Petalfast, the first-of-its-kind full spectrum sales and marketing agency for the cannabis industry. Prior to Petalfast, Vegotsky was the co-founder of Summit Innovations, Inc. and the driver of the company's business development where he expanded the business to over 600+ customers & 25 employees in its first year of operations.

Matt Hawkins is the Founder and Managing Principal, Entourage Effect Capital, a venture capital firm focused specifically on investing in the legalized cannabis industry. Since 2014, the firm has made close to 70 investments out of three funds, co-investment vehicles and special purpose entities.

Ben Britton is the VP of Innovation at Agrify, a developer of premium grow solutions for the indoor agriculture marketplace. Previously, Ben was the Founder and CEO of PurePressure, the leading solventless equipment manufacturer in the cannabis industry, which was purchased by Agrify in January 2022.  Ben has worked with over 7,000 clients and has developed a superior reputation for quality, relia...

Rose Elliott is the Co-Founder and CEO of Komplyd, an API-first cannabis compliance-as-a-service platform.

Ron Gershoni is the Co-Founder and CEO of Jetty Extracts, one of the true originals in the California cannabis market. Canopy Growth Corporation and Jetty Extracts ("Jetty") recently announced a plan for the acquisition of Jetty by the Company. 

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) is a Republican congresswoman who championed the States Reform Act - a federal cannabis reform bill that would remove cannabis from Schedule I drug classification to allow states the right to determine the level of cannabis reform they want to implement.⁣

Walter Moore is the Co-founder, CEO, and CTO of Cognitive Harmony Technologies, new digital platform that levels the playing field for cannabis business licenses, making it as simple as filing taxes online. Walter is an accomplished software architect, financial engineer, and entrepreneur who has a Masters of Science in Financial Engineering and undergraduate degrees in Theoretical Physics and App...

Eddie Velez is the Owner of Oak Cliff Cultivators, a family and veteran-owned Texas hemp company that cultivates premium Texas hemp flower for their clients' alternative health solutions and culinary needs. Eddie was born and raised in Oak Cliff, TX. Cannabis has always been part of his life in some way shape or form and he wants to break the cannabis stigma through education and introduce hemp as...

Thom Brodeur is the CEO of N2 Packaging Systems, a patented packaging solutions company for the cannabis industry that uses liquid nitrogen technology to preserve product freshness/shelf life. Thom has extensive experience in the cannabis and CBD industry and has played a key role in a CBD venture. He is also the CEO of Sky Wellness – a company that makes, markets, and sells premium THC free, Broa...

Kim Stuck is the founder and CEO of Allay Consulting, a compliance strategy and services provider serving the hemp, cannabis, and psychedelic industries nationwide. She brings a regulator's keen eye and wide-reaching knowledge on evolving compliance and safety mandates to support businesses in tightly regulated industries.

Dustin Robinson is the Founding partner of Mr. Cannabis Law; Co-Founder of Mr. Psychedelic Law; Managing Principal of Iter Investments; and Co-Founder of Nucleus.  As a licensed attorney and certified public accountant with a law firm that exclusively works in the cannabis and psychedelic space and as the founder of a leading non-profit that is paving the way for psychedelic legalization, Robinson...

Charles Warner is the CEO and Editor-in-Chief of Cannabis & Tech Today and the CEO of Innovative Properties Worldwide.

Jim Higdon is the Co-Founder and Chief Communications Officer of Cornbread Hemp, a Kentucky-based hemp brand changing the CBD industry with its commitment to quality, transparency, and customer service. Jim is a Kentucky native who worked briefly for the New York Times before returning home to write his first book, "The Cornbread Mafia." Published in 2012, the Cornbread Mafia tells the story of th...

George Mancheril is the Co-founder and CEO of Bespoke Financial, the nation's first licensed fintech lender focused on the cannabis industry and is focused on bridging the divide between institutional investors and cannabis. George Mancheril has over 14 years of experience in the financial industry with a specific focus on asset-based lending, off-balance sheet financing of commercial assets, and...

Rado Ivanov is the Co-Founder and Business Development Manager of TexaKana Organics, a Houston, TX-based Sales and Distributor of cannabis edibles and tinctures.

Cody Guy is the Founder of GivingHemp.org,a nonprofit charity focused on increasing the quality of life of cancer patients without the worry of financial burden. In 2006, Cody was diagnosed with 'glioblastoma' brain cancer and is the longest-living glioblastoma survivor at UT Southwestern. During treatment, Cody learned from cancer.gov that cannabis molecules directly fight cancer itself, not just...