Thinking Outside The Bud

Rick & Monique Fitzgerald, Co-founder, InnDica

Monique Jackson-Fitzgerald

Monique Jackson-Fitzgerald is an attorney and the co-founder of both InnDica.com, an online

cannabis travel platform and Lazy Turtle Group, LLC, a creative agency. With a vision to modernize and destigmatize the public perception of plant medicines, and their use as part of an active lifestyle InnDica.com was launched in 2018. InnDica is an online resource catering to plant medicine and cannabis enthusiasts.

The website features a curated list of cannabis-friendly hotels, retreats, consumption lounges, event venues, and activities. InnDica.com aims to nurture and provide a sanctuary for the bright community of cannabis enthusiasts to discover new experiences and share valued insight from their travels. As

“InnDica Explorers,” visitors are invited to submit stories about their cannabis travel adventures

for inclusion in the “Travelogue” digital magazine. Through her work as an attorney and business consultant with Lazy Turtle Group, Monique focuses on regulations involved with social consumption as well as cannabis tourism and events. With a passion for growing a conscious, sustainable cannabis industry and refreshing the public perception of cannabis, Monique's firm also provides consulting, branding, and packaging design services for licensed cannabis brands. They also assist ancillary businesses in strengthening their relationships with cannabis partners.

Rick Fitzgerald, Co-founder, InnDica

Rick is a Blue Ridge born artist and the co-founder of Lazy Turtle

Group. As Director of Imagination, Rick has over 25 years of experience in brand identity, packaging, and digital design. He has launched and managed creative departments for global corporations including

Shorewood Packaging, International Paper, and MPS.

His designs have appeared across many consumer market segments including cannabis, hemp, music, liquor, cosmetics, HBA, and fashion. His focus on sustainability and innovation in packaging is at the

forefront of all of our award-winning collaborations. Rick has an endless curiosity about the creative process and design mediums, which drives our agency. His “down-to-earth” nature and

artistic approach are what turns our clients into our friends.

https://inndica.com

-https://lazyturtlegroup.com

-@inndica420 (Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest)

-https://www.linkedin.com/company/inndica/?viewAsMember=true (InnDica LinkedIn)

-www.linkedin.com/in/rickjamesfitzgerald (Rick's LinkedIn)

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Javier Hasse, Managing Director, Benzinga Cannabis

Javier Hasse is a cannabis, hemp, CBD and psychedelics-focused reporter, currently serving as Managing Director of Benzinga Cannabis, CEO of Spanish-language news site El Planteo, a company he co-founded and Senior Contributor at Forbes.

His book, “Start Your Own Cannabis Business,” was published by Entrepreneur Media in 2018 and hit the #1 Best-Seller spot on Amazon. As an award-winning reporter and editor, Javier's had roughly 5,000 unique articles in multiple languages published across numerous mass media outlets including CNN, Forbes, MSN, Chicago Tribune, CNBC, Yahoo Finance, Entrepreneur Magazine, MarketWatch, Houston Chronicle, The Street, Nasdaq, Morningstar, Playboy, Benzinga, MERRY JANE, High Times, and many others. Beyond cannabis, Javier is a published photographer and Billboard-charting rapper, featured on hip-hop albums that also included Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA and Inspectah Deck, Twista, Lil Windex, Riff Raff, Cyhi The Prynce, Yung Bleu, DJ Whoo Kid, Jonathan Hay, and others.

https://www.benzinga.com/cannabis/

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Javier Hasse Twitter

Javier Hasse LinkedIn

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Sloane Barbour, Founder & CEO of engin and Partner at FlowerHire

Sloane Barbour is the Founder & CEO of engin, the hiring platform for industries of the future. Sloane was previously Chief Revenue Officer at FlowerHire, the Cannabis industry's leading executive and strategic search and recruiting firm. Sloane brings over 12 years of leadership and innovation in the Talent and Recruiting space at companies like Motion Recruitment Partners and Hired.com, where he oversaw sales and recruiting teams that delivered 10,000+ strategic hires for high growth companies across North America. Sloane is passionate about Equity and Inclusion, and for the last 5 years has served on the Board of several national charities, Mouse.org and Code/Interactive, that focus on educating and empowering the future generation of diverse leaders. Sloane lives in New York City with his wife and Corgi.

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

https://flowerhire.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/flowerhire/?originalSubdomain=be

https://twitter.com/FlowerHire

https://engin.fit/

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Steve Peterson, WasteTrakr, CEO and Co-Founder

Steve Peterson is the CEO and Co-Founder of WasteTrakr Technologies, a software application for ESG reporting and sustainability. In addition, Steve is a Partner at Tress Capital, a NY venture capital firm investing in cannabis technologies. Steve combines 20+ years of technology experience with five years of cannabis industry management experience as a VP/GM of retail operations in San Jose, Eugene and Portland OR. Steve has also assisted public companies with their growth strategies and is a Board Member of MedicateOH.

www.WasteTrakr.com

www.TressDeals.com

www.Tress.io

@CannaWasteTrakr

https://www.linkedin.com/company/19035973/

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Max Simon, CEO at Green Flower

Max Simon’s vision to change the world’s understanding of cannabis led him to create Green Flower, a first-of- its-kind education company, in 2014. Green Flower has since become the recognized industry leader in cannabis education and training, producing the world’s largest library of online cannabis courses; bolstering a network of more than 700 leading cannabis experts; powering the cannabis curriculums of multiple Universities across the US; successfully training cannabis workforces around the world; and creating the esteemed Ganjier Certification, known as the Cannabis Sommelier Certification.

Max’s mission to educate the world about cannabis echoes his earlier work in bringing mind-body wellness and meditation into the mainstream as the Director of Consumer Products for world-renowned self-help guru Deepak Chopra. Max rebranded that company, developed and launched 49 signature products, and helped millions of people improve the quality of their lives along the way.

Green Flower is also a deeply personal mission for Max, who has successfully used cannabis for more than two decades as an integral part of his wellness regime—and to aid in the treatment of his ADHD.

https://www.green-flower.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/school/greenflower

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Travis Schwartz, CEO, Co-Founder, GrowGlide

Travis Schwartz is the CEO & co-founder of Grow Glide. Travis owns three businesses and recently sold his Amazon-adjacent venture. In 2021, Travis led Grow Glide to a 20x revenue year, smashing expectations. Additionally, the company increased its headcount 533%. He credits his scaling success to his firm business beliefs:

- Attract talented, capable, like-minded individuals and get out of their way

- Optimize those individuals and their teams by leveraging technology- Make rapid decisions and small improvements every week to achieve our goals

Darin Siples, President, Co-Founder, GrowGlide

A 15 year career as a cannabis cultivator gave Darin the credibility and confidence to launch a grower-first company laser focused on solving problems actual growers face in the field. Knowing that the multi-tier solutions in the market were lacking, Darin decided to put growers first and design his own systems and solutions.

In 2021, Darin led the design of two new key cultivation products: AirGlide - providing best-in-class airflow solutions for cultivations and the Grow Decks - finally providing cultivators with a safe and secure solution for workflow in a multi-tier environment.

www.growglide.com

www.instagram.com/growglide

www.linkedin.com/company/grow-glide/

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Rose Taylor, EA, Redbud Advisors LLC

Rose Taylor graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a BBA in Business Management. While business is her primary passion, she found out early on she had a knack for accounting. For the past 15 years, Rose has owned multiple businesses and partnerships in varying fields such as retail, B2B, e-commerce, and real estate. She has worked for small businesses and multi-million dollar corporations, both publicly and privately.

Originally from California she was well aware of challenges the cannabis industry faces and quickly jumped in to serve the new Oklahoma market in 2018.

She is an Enrolled Agent, licensed by the federal government and is authorized to appear in the place of the taxpayer at the Internal Revenue Service.

redbudadvisors.com

instagram.com/redbudadvisors

facebook.com/redbudadvisors

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Caitlyn Krebs, Co-Founder & CEO at Nalu Bio

Caitlyn is an entrepreneur with 20+ years of healthcare and life science experience. She has a passion for building companies at the frontier of science and technology - cancer epigenomics, eye tracking for Alzheimer’s, pre-diabetes diagnostics, predictive biosimulation, and now chemistry for cannabinoids. She has held positions in executive management, operations, and corporate development with a focus on commercializing new products and bringing them to market. Caitlyn graduated with honors from Brown University with a BS in Biology, she is a mother of two boys, a Crossfitter, and is committed to realizing the potential of pure, scalable chemistry-based cannabinoids.

https://www.nalubio.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/37248677

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

https://twitter.com/caitlynkrebs

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Dede Perkins, Co-Founder and CEO of ProCanna

Dede Perkins, Co-Founder and CEO of ProCanna, has a true entrepreneurial spirit. She joined the cannabis industry in 2013 as a member of the application team that won one of the first competitive vertically integrated applications in Massachusetts. After that, she helped win cannabis licenses in New York, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, California, Arkansas, North Dakota, and Nevada. A regulatory specialist, Dede is passionate about combining compliance with operational excellence; safe, standardized products; empowered employees; strong company culture and brands.

https://procanna-usa.com

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

https://www.linkedin.com/company/procanna-usa/

https://www.instagram.com/procannausa/

https://twitter.com/procanna_usa

https://www.facebook.com/ProCannaCompliance

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Annie Davis, Founder and CEO, Growing Impact

Annie Davis is a business strategist and marketing leader with a lifelong passion for building lasting brands. She founded Growing Impact because she believes in the healing power of cannabis, and that business can be a force for good.

She served as VP Marketing for Flow Kana, a leading brand of sun-grown flower, VP Sales & Marketing for Care By Design, a pioneer in CBD wellness, and I've led direct-to-consumer and strategic partnerships for Garden Society, a craft cannabis operator serving women in search of new, more holistic ways to rejuvenate from the chaos of their daily lives.

Prior to cannabis, she held marketing & business development leadership roles across consumer packaged goods, renewable energy, and natural products. She received her BA in Political Science from Yale University and her MBA from Harvard Business School.

[email protected]

https://www.growingimpact.co/

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