Thinking Outside The Bud

Dino H Carter, Owner, D Branding

Dino H Carter is a marketing consultant and a brand strategist with more than 25 years of international marketing experience including works with Levi's, MTV Europe, National Geographic, Alfa Romeo and more. Among others, Dino has been helping Cannabis businesses grow brand awareness and increase revenues.

Www.dinohcarter.com

Www.dbrandingla.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dinohcarter

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Nick Scalera, Founder, CEO, NJ Cannabis Consulting

For more than 20 years, Nick held management positions with high-tech New Jersey companies such as AT&T, Perkin Elmer, Telcordia Technologies, and Ericsson. He has also taught business, technical, and math courses at several NJ colleges and universities. Since 2001, his consultancy, NJS Marketing Services, has helped businesses across a wide range of industries develop and implement strategies to achieve their growth objectives.

Nick is currently the founder and CEO of NJ Cannabis Consulting, serving the business needs of entrepreneurs and companies interested in becoming involved in the legal recreational cannabis market in New Jersey by:

- Helping them understand the many challenges that lie ahead.

- Determining whether the opportunities are right for them.

- Developing and executing the plans and programs necessary to their success.

He also speaks, blogs, and tweets regularly on the business aspects of cannabis legalization in New Jersey.

Nick is also a certified SCORE business counselor and workshop instructor and holds BS, MS, and MBA degrees.

*NOTE: Mr. Scalera is not an advocate (pro or con) for the legalization of cannabis in New Jersey

njcannabisconsulting.com

thecannabislearningcenter.com

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Lior Root and Sophia Trunzo, Founders, Paradigm Media

Paradigm Media is a digital marketing agency specializing in the CBD and Cannabis industry. In the last three years, they've developed 360° marketing solutions and have been working with 70+ brands executing an ROI-focused growth strategy. Understanding the challenges this industry is facing Paradigm became a one-stop-shop for all of their clients' needs including; Paid Media, Affiliate Marketing, Email Marketing, Content Marketing, Social Media & Influencers Management, SEO, Web Development, and Graphic Design.

Lior Root and Sophia Trunzo are accomplished entrepreneurs with combined decades of experience in paid media marketing and sales in the CBD industry. After years of leading in-house marketing teams, the pair seized on the explosive growth of CBD and started their own agency, Paradigm Media, in 2019. They have signed over 70 clients in under two years, including some of the biggest brands in CBD, and grown agency revenue by a projected 700%.

https://www.instagram.com/paradigmmediaagency/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/paradigmmedia

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Heather Rubiales, Founder, Heather's Hemp Alternatives

Heather Rubiales has worked closely in the Cannabis industry for the past 10 years. She is a California native born and raised in San Diego. Her passion for the industry and a clean Planet has pushed her to create the startup Heather's Hemp Alternatives based out of Humboldt County.

Heather's Hemp Alternatives is providing compostable Hemp-based packaging for the Cannabis & Hemp industry and hopes to bring plastic free as a new element to what Sustainable, Regenerative Cannabis/Hemp looks like.

https://heathershempalternatives.com/

https://www.instagram.com/heathershempalternatives/

https://www.facebook.com/Heathers-Hemp-Alternatives-413935642722841/

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Igor Dunaevsky, Managing Partner at AskGrowers.com

A digital marketing expert with a keen eye for performance marketing. Passionate about cannabis, Igor immediately recognized an emerging need for a unifying cannabis marketing platform. Combining his love of marijuana and his 15 years of experience in the digital landscape, Igor crafted an online cannabis index committed to helping consumers and brands find each other in the green sea of an expanding industry.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/igor-dunaevsky-980a185a

https://twitter.com/askgrowers

https://www.instagram.com/askgrowers/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/askgrowers/

https://www.facebook.com/askgrowers/

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Matt Hampton, Founder, Headshop

Remember the first time you walked into a headshop; the amazing sights and smells, the sense of wonder? That memory is what led Matt Hampton to create Headshop.com. A keen student of the digital revolution, Matt founded the online home for those who want to explore and buy high-quality items related to cannabis and other plant-based medicine — safely and efficiently.

https://www.facebook.com/Headshop

https://www.instagram.com/_headshop/

https://twitter.com/thenewheadshop

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Jun S. Lee, Co-CEO and Co-Founder, Nabis

Jun S. Lee is an entrepreneur, software engineer and multifaceted business executive. In his role as Co-CEO of Nabis, California’s largest licensed wholesale cannabis marketplace, he oversees revenue, operations, product and business strategy. He brings the experienced mindset of a systems architect to cannabis, creating flawless business and consumer experiences through technology. Jun also serves on the California Cannabis Industry Association (CCIA) board and the board of Oakland Citizens for Equity and Prosperity (OCEP).

Drawing from his successes at Facebook and Google, where he furthered his programming and complex systems design expertise, Jun founded Series B-funded machine learning SaaS company Allganize before launching Nabis full-time in 2017. Nabis now serves over 100 cannabis brands and nearly 100% of California’s licensed retailers with its distribution, capital, analytics and other business services.

Jun received his bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics and computer science from Harvard University and was recognized as a member of the 2021 Forbes 30 Under 30 list for enterprise technologies.

https://www.nabis.com/

@getnabis - Instagram

@GetNabis - Twitter

getnabis - LinkedIn

@getnabis - Facebook

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Matt McComb, VP of Business Development, Dingus and Zazzy

Matt is the VP of Business Development at Dingus and Zazzy—a full-service, unlimited marketing department in Edmonton, AB. Matt launched his career in Engineering, Oil and Gas, and Cannabis, but has since discovered a home in creative sales and marketing. He believes that building real relationships begins with being yourself, however eccentric that may be.

dingusandzazzy.com

https://www.instagram.com/dingusandzazzy/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/dingus-zazzy/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-mccomb-p-eng/

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Scott Berman, President & Co-Founder of The Panther Group

Scott is the President and Co-Founder of the Panther Group. Since 2014, he has co-founded and exited multiple companies in the ad tech and cannabis distribution sectors—with 20+ years of experience working in politics, cannabis advocacy, healthcare, and digital advertising.

linkedin.com/company/thepanthergroup

Instagram: @thepanthergroup

Twitter: @panthergroupllc

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Elana Frankel, Entrepreneur and Chief Creative Officer, Indigo + Haze

Elana Frankel has been working in the cannabis industry for 10+ years. She started a home grow garden club; an e-commerce business, Indigo and Haze; developed product; founded the magazine Women and Weed; authored a book with the same title; serves as Chief Growth Officer for MedialCannabisMentor.com; produces documentaries; writes freelance for various publications; volunteers for the Oregon Cannabis Commission, health equity sub-committee member; consults regularly for companies who value creativity; teaches yoga and meditation with a focus on cannabis; and even worked as a dispensary associate (at the height of Covid).

Elana has been featured in the media, including CNN and The New York Times, and on various pod casts. Her writing has appeared in the WSJ/Off Duty, Architectural Digest, NY Magazine and House Beautiful. She has been an editor at Martha Stewart Living and served as VP, creative at One Kings Lane for more than 5 years, when the company was still a start-up, developing the brand, voice and visual identity.

http://indigoandhaze.com

@indigoandhaze

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