Thinking Outside The Bud

Punit is a seasoned strategy and operations management executive with 10+ years of experience and specializations in program management, strategic planning, operations management, people management, coaching, executive communication, human resources management, and turnaround/transformation management. Punit has worked for and advised notable organizations across several industries including: Bridgewater Associates, Accenture, Bank of America, Walgreens, US Department of Commerce, NYC Government, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Merck, American Express, and more. Punit decided to leave his successful corporate career and focus on starting Toast- a disruptive startup for the world's fastest growing industry, Cannabis.

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Dr. Berger co-founded Sciadonics, Inc. to commercialize SCI and other special fatty acids, with the goal of reducing our rampant chronic inflammation. As SCI can be used alone or in combination with- other nutritional oils (such as fish oil), anti-oxidants, and drugs, to combat chronic- and diverse forms of inflammation and associated symptoms (pain, discomfort, etc.), the market opportunity is enormous. Moreover, SCI can be added to food vehicles requiring a longer shelf life, a particular challenge for fish oils. Dr. Berger and colleagues have painstakingly identified seeds and other sources of SCI and related fatty acids that are economical, abundant, with a history of safe use, and protected by our intellectual property.

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Hadas is an Israeli-American attorney who advises companies on matters of regulatory compliance, policy advocacy, risk management, strategic planning, revenue models, corporate governance, and dispute resolution. A committed creative problem-solver, Hadas is a restorative justice practitioner and community organizer dedicated to using the law to expand equitable access to plant medicine. She is the co-founder of Decriminalize Nature NYC, Campaign Director of New Yorkers for Mental Health Alternatives and a Board Member of the Psychedelic Bar Association. She is also on the Advisory Board of the Brooklyn Psychedelic Society.

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Graham is the President and Chief Cannabis Officer of Glass House Group, one of the most rapidly growing, privately-held cannabis and hemp companies in the country, and Founder of Glass House Farms, perhaps the largest greenhouse operation in California. He was part of the original team at Software.com, taking the company public in 1999, and one of the first employees at Sonos, where he was involved with product design, development, sales and customer support.

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Cynthia is also the Founder of the cannabis industry’s newswire and entrepreneur tech suite, AxisWire, as well as the luxury brand House of Saka. She is also the Co-founder of Green Market Media which is currently most recognized for its cannabis finance news publication Green Market Report and its conference series Green Market Summit as well as a Co-founder of the network Industry Power Women.

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Autumn Shelton is partner and Chief Financial Officer of Autumn Brands, a 50 percent woman-owned cannabis business located in sunny coastal Carpinteria, Santa Barbara County, California. A calculated risk taker with an outstanding aptitude for numbers, Autumn champions the health and wellness benefits of cannabis and is committed to cultivation free of pesticides and other harmful chemicals. In her position as CFO, Autumn is a strategic decision maker for the family farm, which started in Holland more than 100 years ago. Along with overseeing the company’s financials, she is in charge of legal compliance on the local and state levels. This includes, but is not limited to, ordinances, regulations, packaging, permits, and licensing. Another farm duty is walking the greenhouses once or twice a week to check on “the ladies”.

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Jonathon Goldrath is a successful entrepreneur and investor who moved away from the traditional finance world and into the legal cannabis industry in 2016. His experience in the cannabis industry started as an operator - winning one of Pennsylvania’s first twelve cannabis Grower/Processor licenses in 2017. Jonathon went on to co-found a number of cannabis businesses that have been some of the first of their kind across the country.

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Shawn Gold is Founder and CEO of Pilgrim Soul, a mission-driven cannabis brand focused on optimizing human creative performance to gain a competitive edge in business and life. Until recently, Shawn was CMO of Lowell Herb Co., one of the fastest-growing, most talked about cannabis companies in North America. He has been an advisor to other leading cannabis brands including MedMen and Charlottes Web. Previous to Lowell, he was CMO at TechStyle Fashion Group which launched the subscription fashion category with Fabletics, JustFab, ShoeDazzle, FabKids, and Rihanna’s SavageXFenty. Before TechStyle he was head of entertainment brand partnerships at Wattpad.com, the world’s largest storytelling platform and one of the fastest-growing mobile content sites in the world. Before Wattpad, he oversaw sales, marketing, and content development as CMO of Inside Studios, a video and mobile app company creating shows with over 1 billion views on YouTube and MSN. In the early days of social media, Shawn was CMO, head of marketing & content for MySpace. At MySpace, Shawn spearheaded the development and implementation of marketing initiatives and campaigns for MySpace during its growth from 25 to 110 million users worldwide. Prior to MySpace, he was a partner and the founding publisher of Weblogs, Inc., a network of popular blogs that included Engadget, Joystiq, and Autoblog, now part of Verizon. As head of communications planning for Rare Medium, Shawn helped launch digital communications strategies for brands at P&G, General Mills, Nestle, Mattel, and other international brand marketing companies.

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Zev began his involvement with industrial hemp in late 2012 shortly after Colorado became the first state to fully allow farmers to grow this versatile crop. He created and was the founding Executive Director of the Rocky Mountain Hemp Association and then the National Hemp Association, from 2013 to the end of 2016. He has developed a national network of farmers, extractors, processors, equipment manufacturers, testing laboratories, investors, hemp organizations, and buyers of hemp products, he he connects his clients to the most beneficial players in the U.S. hemp industry.

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Matt Kurtzman, a seasoned data scientist and founder of Canold, is an expert in predictive modeling and data visualization focusing on the cannabis industry. With a formal education in supply chain management and accounting from Northeastern University, a lean six sigma black belt certification from Staples, and management consulting experience from Boston Consulting Group, Matt and his team at Canold solve challenges around data modeling and analytics specific to cannabis. Seed to sale software is non-intuitive and offers limited and rigid reporting capabilities. By creating meaningful insight from complex data, Canold enables senior leaders to make fact-based decisions about their businesses, improve sales, maximize yields, and reduce waste. Matt and his team leverage predictive analytics, data modeling, business intelligence and custom cloud-based software solutions across all cannabis verticals including cultivation, processing, wholesale, delivery, customer and retail.

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