Elevate Your Grind

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 variety of industries, including finance, energy and technology. He is well-known and respected in each industry for deciphering and inventing solutions to their real problems, often invited to be the main speaker or presenter at meetings.

In 2008, Jeremy founded EYECONIC.TV, leaders in POS media providing the only fully managed digital signage, menu and touch screen kiosk solutions. He and his team invented the very first digital menu for restaurants and one of the first digital directories. Prior to EYECONIC.TV, Jeremy worked in the energy and mining business, during which he invented multiple patented technologies and drilled several hundred natural gas wells in Western Kentucky. He is also an official member of the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), a community organization that provides entrepreneurs with the resources and social capital they need to succeed, and received a select invite to Forbes Agency Council.

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 with Merck Pharmaceutical where he held a director level position on the senior product management team leading new product development and launch teams. 

Within the medical cannabis industry, Todd has been involved in the development of more than 50 medical cannabis products and launched the national and internationally recognized MüV™ Brand of medical cannabis products and MüV Dispensaries. Todd has been heavily involved in his community serving on numerous advisory boards including the Sarasota Young Professionals Group, Greater Sarasota Chamber of Commerce, Keep Sarasota County Beautiful and the Boys & Girls Clubs of Sarasota County. His commitment to community service and education as a core value has also been exemplified in the medical cannabis industry where he has given education seminars throughout the state of Arizona with esteemed medical cannabis researcher Dr. Sue Sisley at large retirement communities like Pebblecreek and at the University of Arizona’s Continuing Education Series.
 
In Florida Todd has been a keynote speaker on medical cannabis at the Tiger Bay Club of Sarasota, presented at medical cannabis physician education symposiums in Ft Lauderdale, Tampa and Orlando and conducted dozens of regional and national medical cannabis media interviews.

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 her BS from University of Florida and JD from University of Florida – Frederic G. Levin College of Law. Tobi holds a Senior Professional in Human Resources certification.

Todd Green brings legal experience relating to business regulations, cannabis, corporations, and securities to his role as Senior Manager of Investor Relations at Jushi. Todd formerly served as Jushi’s Associate Corporate Counsel as well as an Associate Attorney at Greenspoon Marder LLP. Todd earned his BA in Entrepreneurship and minored in English and Business Law as well as his J.D. from the University of Miami. Todd also earned his J.D. from the University of Miami.

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 recognized medical cannabis activist, autism advocate, author, public speaker and devoted mother. 

Erica's life changed and gained new purpose when her son was diagnosed with autism in 2007. After years of traveling the country seeing specialists, exasperating dozens of treatments for years with little or no success, Erica eventually discovered that natural treatments such as diet and medical cannabis dramatically improved the quality of life for her son and her entire family as a result. 

Erica is the Founder of Hope Grows for Autism, a nonprofit aimed at improving the lives of families affected by autism through research, education and advocacy of medical cannabis treatment. Erica Daniels is also a proud partner of the Zelira Therapeutics’ HOPE™ range of products formulated for autism spectrum disorders. 

Erica’s consulting firm, Autism Advisors LLC, provides strategic consultation and solutions to healthcare professionals, product manufacturers, and universities to empower them in making data-backed business & healthcare decisions involving autism including the HOPE ™ range of medical cannabis products. Erica is a perfect person to quote on any patient perspective related topic related to cannabis and/ or autism.

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) licenses in the State of Florida. In building One Plant, Brady and his team of authentic cannabis enthusiasts and experienced industry insiders took a much different, and harder, path than its competitors, namely instead of focusing on opening up retail stores, they focused on building out and scaling up their cultivation facilities. They recognized that they were only as good as the cannabis flower they could grow, and truly live and die by a line from their mission statement; One Plant’s cannabis is grown, not made.

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 Industry Power Women.

KCSA Strategic Communications acquired her leading cannabis and hemp public relations firm Salar Media Group after being in operations for three years. She is a council member on Forbes Communications Council as well as a contributing writer for Entrepreneur Media on the leading women and business of cannabis.

Cynthia has been named as one of 15 of the most Powerful and Innovative Women in Cannabis by Forbes, one of 20 Women set to Dominate the International Landscape in Cannabis by Benzinga as well as named as one of the 20 Most Influential Women in Cannabis by High Times, and one of the 35 Most Influential Women in Cannabis by Entrepreneur Media.

Cynthia received her degree from the University of Pennsylvania, as well as a certificate in political journalism from Georgetown University.

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 college working alongside his current co-founders as a Growth Hacker trio doing customer acquisition for Lyft. Together, they led a team of over 1,000 ambassadors from across the country and ultimately recruited tens of thousands of new users for Lyft during their tenure.

Alex earned his Bachelor of Business Administration at the University of Southern California.

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 Track Adventures, a student travel organization based out of St. Lawrence University.

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 February 2018, LeafLink was the first company in the cannabis space to make Fast Company’s 2018 Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Enterprise. Ryan currently serves on the board of the Jeffrey Modell Foundation and is also an active lender through Kiva, an online community that helps fund primarily women-owned businesses in developing countries.

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 in Boston reconnecting with loved ones, taking full advantage of the creative and diverse MIT community, and focusing on his own personal growth and health, Socrates discovered the medicinal benefits of cannabis. After completing his MBA program in 2014 and joining McKinsey & Company in Silicon Valley, it was not long before he created iheartjane.com, the cannabis industry's largest online marketplace, with his brother and fellow MIT grad Abraham.

Socrates has a new mission to bring legitimacy and access to medicinal cannabis and serve as an advocate for veterans' right to choose a holistic approach to physical and emotional healing.