Plant Prophets

The Future of Wellness & Why CBD Will Pave the Way for Growth with Lisa Raggiri, co-founder and U.S. CMO of Healist Advanced Naturals. Lisa describes herself as an entrepreneur through and through. Healist Advanced Naturals is the second company that she co-founded. ToneRow.com was the first. Lisa has been a startup employee, co-founder, board member, investor, executive, consultant, mentor an...

Pantry Food Co with CEO and Founder, Scott Jennings. Today's guest has expertise in high finance at two of the largest investment banks in the world. He previously served as a Financial Advisor at Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management and also worked at Barclays Capital serving ultra-high net worth clients as well as working in Private Wealth Management. Pantry was conceived in partnership...

High performance indoor cannabis cultivation facilities with Brad Nattrass, Chairman/CEO/Co-Founder at Urban-Gro Inc. Our guest today has more than 25 years of experience in the agricultural sector. He is a co-founder of a leading systems integrator and agriculture technologies company delivering best-in-class systems, solutions, and services to the global commercial cannabis cultivator market. Ur...

The Benefits of Full-Spectrum Hemp with Barbara Goodstein, founder of B GREAT. Their goal at B GREAT is to provide customers with superior quality hemp-based products that they can use with confidence. They are transparent and use only well-tested natural ingredients to enhance body balance from morning to night. B GREAT products work with your body’s endocannabinoid system safely and naturally to...

Sound policy solutions in cannabis with Tami Wahl, Strategic Policy Advisor in Washington, D.C. with Market Access Today. With over twenty years of legal and legislative experience, Tami Wahl is proud to represent forward-thinking clients from a diverse business landscape. Innovators from Hemp, Wearable Tech, Fashion Tech, Banking, FinTech, Cannabis, and other industries have made Tami Wahl the vo...

Treaty Oak Distilling with Director of Science and Sustainability, Jamie Biel. Treaty Oak is anchored in the roots of tradition and yet each inspired by unique cultural impulses. They embrace the scientific method, even as they collect artistic perspectives to blend with the distilling process. As a group, they're driven to tinker and test. They are pushed to re-think the creative process the...

How Cannabis will affect the beverage industry with Steve Luttman from Tortoise & Volt Marketing and Ventures. Steve Luttman started his career at Unilever, working in Europe, the United States, and Brazil on various brands including Lipton Iced Tea, Ben & Jerry’s, Bertolli, and Ragu Pasta Sauce. In 2003, he joined Diageo & Moët Hennessy’s Schieffelin & Somerset as Senior VP Market...

Young America Capital is a FINRA/SEC-registered broker-dealer founded in 2010 by Peter Formanek, a CPA, and successful entrepreneur. The firm grew out of Family Office Advisor, a CPA and Wealth Advisory business founded by Peter in 2000, which provides accounting services and Venture Capital, Private Equity, and Real Estate Advisory services to large Family Offices and Alternative Investment Funds...

Banking solutions for the cannabis industry with Chief Revenue Officer of Hypur, Tyler Beuerlein. Hypur was founded on the belief that legitimate businesses should have access to basic banking services – like a bank account and proper electronic payments. Unfortunately, businesses in many industries struggle to maintain basic banking services because financial institutions simply don’t have the to...

KushCo, Founded in 2010, has now sold more than 1 billion units and regularly services more than 6,000 legally operated medical and adult-use growers, processors, and producers across North America, South America, and Europe. They maintain facilities in the five largest U.S. cannabis markets and they have a local sales presence in every major cannabis market across the US and Canada. KushCo strive...

Urban-Gro with Mark Doherty, Executive Vice President Of Operations. Urban-gro, Inc. is a leading engineering design services company that integrates complex equipment systems into high-performance indoor cannabis cultivation facilities around the world. By combining its design and integration services, industry-leading suite of cultivation equipment and crop management products, and proprietary t...

Infused Cannabis Cocktails with Kat Hantas, Co-founder & CEO and Nicole (Hantas) Emanuel, Co-founder and CFO of 21 Seeds. 21Seeds was started by three women who wanted to create an all-natural, fresh, fruit-infused Blanco Tequila that wasn't too sweet, reflective of what they, and all of their friends, like to drink. First, they discarded any and all Tequila cliches introducing their fun,...

Ball Family Farms with Chris Ball. Ball Family Farms flower is hand-crafted from the finest raw and organic nutrients. Cultivated with meticulous attention to detail, each component of our genetics is pheno-hunted, developed and produced in-house to the most precise standards. Ball Family Farms currently offers premium in-door flowers as well as hand-rolled glass tip pre-rolls. Their ready-to-smok...

The first Cannabis private equity fund with Codie Sanchez of Cresco Capital Partners. Cresco Capital Partners is the first Cannabis private equity fund. Codie is a reformed journalist, turned institutional investor to now a Managing Director and Partner at Entourage Effect Capital, a private equity firm focused specifically on investing in the legalized cannabis industry. Since its inception in th...

The Canadian Securities Exchange (CSE) is the only exchange in Canada providing trading and market information services for all domestically listed instruments. Recognized as an exchange by the Ontario Securities Commission in 2004, the CSE is designed to facilitate the capital formation process for public companies through a streamlined approach to company regulation that emphasizes disclosure an...

iAnthus has a mission is to create the most valuable cannabis brands and a network of cannabis operations and distribution nationally. Cannabis will be the next great transformative industry. Not just because it has the power to change people’s lives – especially those suffering from chronic ailments – but also because it will impact many other industries, from agriculture to pharmaceuticals to al...

Artemis Holdings are venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, lawyers, consultants, financiers, scientists, and board directors of public and private companies. They are a bridge to the future of the cannabis industry while being mindful of the past. Artemis brings best-in-class companies to you. They believe that a thriving cannabis industry benefits the health and wellness of humanity. They also inve...

Jessica Billingsley and Samantha Ford at The Benzinga Cannabis Capital Conference. Our first guest is CEO of the first cannabis compliance technology company to be traded on Nasdaq making her the first CEO from this market to bring a company to a major U.S. exchange. She has recognized for Fortune’s “Most Promising Women Entrepreneur Award,” is also recognized as one of Inc.’s “Female Founders 100...

Innovative and trans-formative beverage brands with Jack Belsito Managing Partner at First Beverage Ventures. Our guest brings more than 30 years of experience in the beverage industry, having held senior executive positions with Cadbury Schweppes including as president of Snapple Distributing Company, president of Mott’s USA and president & CEO of Snapple Beverage Group. He is now a managing...

Cannabis Prestige with Michael Huttner, CEO of Powerplant Strategies; Managing Director, Investment Banking at Young America Capital. Michael is a corporate and political strategist, attorney, author, and entrepreneur. He has helped launch over 40 different political organizations and has led communications ‘war-rooms’ for political and private clients. Michael also is the Founder of ProgressNow,...

Improving cannabis business performance with Shanita Penny Founder/CEO of Budding Solutions. Our next guest is an internationally recognized management consultant with over a decade of experience in helping Fortune 500 companies solve complex issues and help in improving business performance. Shanita’s reputation as a strategic thinker and a results-oriented leader was cultivated in management and...

Integrated science in cannabis with R. Michael Smullen. Smullen is Co-Founder, CEO, and Chairman, for AltMed Enterprises. AME is a nationally recognized medical cannabis company with operations in Arizona and Florida. Michael spent 31 years in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries building and leading commercial operations for several companies including three start-ups. Before founding AltMed...

CannabisMD: Cannabis Media Integration with Miraculo CEO and former Viacom and Condé Naste Executive Vice President Michael Klein. Michael is a seasoned expert in building and growing media companies, and his deep editorial and creative expertise will be invaluable as we focus on our mission to provide consumers the information they want in the most useful and engaging way possible. A veteran medi...

High quality and consistent cannabis with Americann CEO Tim Keogh. Keogh offers a unique combination of firsthand experience in the cannabis industry, from licensing to operations in multiple states, and an extensive background in real estate development. Keogh is also the director of a vertically-integrated Registered Marijuana Dispensary that is currently cultivating, processing and dispensing c...

Nature shaped cannabis and hemp with Scott Goldie, CEO of Goldenseed a Vertically and horizontally integrated California cannabis and hemp business. Scott oversees and manages Goldenseed's vertically and horizontally integrated cannabis and hemp businesses. Goldenseed's cannabis and hemp are shaped in nature, not in a warehouse. All of their plants are 100% naturally grown with exceptional...