Kaitlin Urso

Kaitlin provides Colorado small businesses with proactive environmental assistance and lasting program resources. She specializes in “greening” the brewing and cannabis industries. Currently she is managing the creation of a free online tool for the cannabis industry that will track and benchmark environmental data and allow businesses to anonymously share and compare metrics. […]

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Katie Stem

Katie is the co-founder & CEO of Peak Extracts, a Portland, Oregon-based extraction company that specializes in strain-specific chocolates. In this role, Katie leverages her background of more than 10 years of laboratory science as well as extensive business and management experience. She is a certified licensed herbalist and acupuncturist who maintains an acupuncture and […]

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Jourdan Kurtz

Jourdan heads Cresco Labs’ nationwide expansion into some of the most heavily regulated cannabis markets. He oversees the company’s 21 retail dispensaries in 11 states. Prior to joining Cresco Labs, Jourdan worked for some of the country’s largest restaurant companies, including Lettuce Entertain You and the Tao Group. […]

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Bob Eschino

Bob is responsible for sales, marketing and national expansion as president of Incredibles, an award-winning infused-product company. He is also a founding member of the Edibles Council through Cannabis Business Alliance and the Colorado Cannabis Manufacturers Association, through which he helped to shape the next wave of regulations for the cannabis industry at the state […]

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Kris Karlson

Kris leverages more than 22 years of M&A expertise to help companies achieve scale and to match buyers and sellers with the right partners. He is CEO and co-founder of KO Acquisitions, a boutique investment bank specializing in mergers and acquisitions in the cannabis industry. In 1996, Kris founded Bowman/Hanson, which was rebranded as KO […]

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Dr. Bernie Lorenz

Bernie is the chief science officer of ProKure, a cannabis industry leader in controlling cultivation environments and decontamination. He is the author of the “Standard Guide for Cleaning and Disinfection at a Cannabis Cultivation Center.” He is also a member of the ASTM D37 Cannabis Committee, which develops standards for cannabis products and processes. Previously, […]

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Kara Bradford

Kara is the co-founder & CEO of Viridian Staffing, the first full-service staffing, recruiting and HR consulting firm in the cannabis industry. Viridian provides temporary, direct placement and HR outsourcing services. Kara has been an HR professional for more than 15 years and has held roles with Fortune 100 companies and startups in a variety […]

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Chonie Bradley

Chonie currently serves as the VP of Finance for Marijuana Business Daily. She has been with the company since 2016, when it started appearing on INC’s fastest growing companies list. In this role, she has built strategic relationships with banks and processors in the U.S. and Canada to support the company’s needs, as well as […]

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Chris Day

Chris Day is the Vice President of External Relations and handles global partnership development for MJBizDaily and the MJBizCon family of events. Spanning a wide variety of complex, high-growth industries, Chris has a 20+ year career designing Fortune 100 advertising campaigns, experiential events, as well as Public Relations and Public Affairs programs within marketing agencies. He […]

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Olivia Mannix

Olivia founded Cannabrand, a cannabis-focused marketing agency and consultancy firm, to help brands establish their unique identities and position themselves competitively. The company also aids cannabis companies with operations and capital services as well as brokering to exit. Olivia was named a Top 50 Innovator by PR Week and was named one of Adweek’s Young […]

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Dan Roda

Dan is a licensed attorney with experience in commercial transactions, banking and securities law – in addition to cannabis law and regulation. He cofounded Abaca, a technology company that partners with financial institutions to provide U.S. cannabis businesses with access to bank accounts, electronic payments and lending. After the passage of the Arkansas Medical Marijuana […]

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Alfred Wong

Alfred is the President and CEO of Micron Waste Technologies, a leading organic waste technology company based in Canada. Micron has developed and commercialized an on-site treatment system that can turn organic waste into clean water. Alfred is considered an expert on the cannabis environmental implications and also mentors social impact start-ups. Prior to this, […]

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Roy Bingham

Roy started BDS Analytics to collect, process and present point-of-sale market share data for the cannabis industry. He is a Harvard MBA, former McKinsey data consultant, and a former executive with RenewLife. Roy was an early investor in a data analytics company for the natural products industry and later became one of its executives. […]

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Kelly E. Perez

Kelly is the CEO and co-founder of KindColorado, which connects cannabis businesses to community-serving nonprofits. She is also the president and co-founder of Cannabis Doing Good, which was created to highlight the good that the sector is doing. Previously, as the human services policy adviser to former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, Kelly led the creation […]

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Nick Pateras

Nick oversees key strategic, international expansion and M&A opportunities at Lift & Co., a publicly traded technology company with an emphasis on modernizing the cannabis industry through data and education. Prior to this, Nick spent several years in the pharmaceutical sector with Johnson & Johnson. […]

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Dr. Jason Poulos

Jason works to produce valuable therapeutic compounds in economically and environmentally sustainable ways. As CEO of Librede, a California-based biotechnology company, he oversees the development of microorganism-based platforms to produce natural products found in plants. Jason is the co-inventor of a yeast-based cannabinoid production system. […]

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Lindsay Topping

Lindsay leads GRIT in business development, brand strategy and client relationships. She is also an expert on packaging and regulation who has participated in legislative hearings on cannabis packaging.  For nearly 15 years, Lindsay has focused on building brands that consumers love and providing forward-looking insights in a dynamic and shifting space. […]

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Rob James

Rob serves as the lead engineer on extraction projects at Root Engineers in Oregon. He has successfully engineered systems for dozens of processing facilities. With an engineering career spanning 30 years, he has worked on a diverse range of projects including oil refineries, nuclear power plants, hospitals, schools and industrial facilities. […]

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Flip Croft-Caderao

Flip founded the Los Angeles-based digital media company Greenlit Agency, which serves some of the largest cannabis brands in California. He spent the past decade creating award-winning creative content and digital advertising for national brands such as Bud Light, Pizza Hut, ESPN and American Express. […]

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Damon Hebert

Damon performs in-house plant studies and manages pilot programs and grower relations for UbiQD, the New Mexico-based makers of UbiGro, a nanotech-enabled luminescent film for greenhouses. He has a background in materials science, agriculture, spectroscopy and small business. Previously, Damon co-founded Dr. Jolly’s, a cannabis retail and cultivation operation in Bend, Oregon. […]

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