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John D. Wagner
With a focus on compliance services, laboratories and software, John co-leads the cannabis and hemp practice for 1stWest, which has transacted more than $1 billion in deal values since its inception. Before entering the marijuana space, he was involved in numerous transactions, private fundraising events and M&A efforts since he was director of investor relations for a […]
Jennifer Dianne Thomas
Jennifer is a corporate transactional specialist with several years of experience advising emerging and startup companies in commercial transactions, corporate governance and regulatory compliance. Prior to this, Jennifer served as a senior associate at two of the top-25 law firms in the United States. She also served as counsel for companies on legal matters from […]
Katy Young
Katy represents both plaintiffs and defendants in business disputes and real estate claims, including matters for cannabis industry litigants. For cannabis businesses, she handles mostly partnership disputes and breach of contract matters, including leases. She graduated from University of the Pacific cum laude where she played water polo on scholarship and received her law degree […]
Lindsay Short
Sam Kamin
Sam has emerged as an expert voice on marijuana law reform in Colorado and throughout the country. He sat on former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper’s Amendment 64 Implementation Task Force and worked with the ACLU and then-Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom to formulate a set of best practices for marijuana regulation in California. He has written […]
Dorian-Michelle Smith
Dorian is the Colorado General Manager for PAX Labs. In this role, Dorian drives the Colorado sales strategy and maintains the relationships with the nine Colorado Brand Partners on the Era platform. Prior to joining PAX in 2017, Dorian helped lead the launch and sales strategy for a contract manufacturing company which housed six cannabis […]
Philip Hague
One of the better-known cultivators in the marijuana space, Phil recently brought his vast experience and knowledge of horticulture and botany to New York-based Acreage. Through his career, Phil has designed, built, staffed and maintained more than 1 million square feet of controlled-environment cannabis cultivation facilities. He also has pieced together one of the largest […]
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Christy Kline
Christy founded Merritt Strategies, a company focused on the funding and consultation of businesses that are not in the traditional banking space due to growth, industry or early-stage development. The goal of Merritt is to help businesses navigate the banking system and access funding to facilitate growth. Prior to this, Christy served as the senior […]
Jesse Pytlak
Jesse Pytlak is an equity research analyst at Cormark Securities, Canada’s largest employee owned investment bank. His coverage area focuses on the Canadian, US and international cannabis sectors and he has been quoted in several financial publications including the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg. […]
Catarino Felán III
Catarino is responsible for raising capital and new business development at La Hoja, a global capital advisory firm with a focus on plant-touching opportunities. Catarino’s career spans more than 25 years working in developed and emerging markets for some of the largest asset managers in the world. He previously worked to build the Latin American […]
Dr. Melanie Yelton
Melanie uses LED lighting to elicit desirable crop characteristics as the vice president of research at LumiGrow, a leading company in smart horticultural lighting solutions. Prior to joining LumiGrow, Melanie served as a lecturer and research scientist at Stanford University. She also served as director of sequencing at the Stanford DNA Sequence and Technology Center, […]
Andrew Black
Andrew has spent 12 years working in all facets of USDA organic certification, inspecting hundreds of organic farms and food-processing facilities in the United States and Latin America. He founded Certified Kind in 2014 to offer professional certification services for organically grown medical and recreational cannabis as well as industrial hemp farms. In 2018, Andrew […]
Jeannette Ward Horton
Jeannette is the vice president of global marketing and communications for MJ Freeway, the world’s largest cannabis technology company. In this role, Jeannette leads all product and brand marketing, as well as all public and investor relations globally. She is also a founding board member and Executive Director of NuLeaf Project, an initiative funded by […]
Neil Juneja
Neil is the founder and managing partner of Gleam Law, a cannabis-focused law firm with offices in Washington, Oregon and California. His practice focuses on trademark and patent law for cannabis brands. Neil has been awarded numerous accolades for his work in the cannabis industry, where he and his firm have successfully registered more than […]
MJBizDaily’s Night in New Orleans
MJBizDaily’s Night in New Orleans brings together the cannabis industry in support of those groups and associations helping to drive the cannabis industry forward. Join us as we celebrate these organizations as part of the MJBizDaily Industry Giveback program and the many positive impacts they have on the cannabis industry in New Orleans, across the country and […]