Thinking Outside The Bud

Franny is an inspiring farmer that rocks the hemp scene across the country. She is the first female farmer in North Carolina to plant hemp and has entered the hemp scene with a force behind education and collaborations, She is a founding member of Women in Hemp non-profit, been keynote speaker and presenter across the country.

Franny has degrees and work experience in Forestry and Education and worked in the pharmaceutical industry for over a decade. She has been in Asheville since 1999 and bought land, now called Franny's Farm in 2012 which is the heart and soul of the brand and serves as an agritourism hub welcoming visitors from all over the world to stay over in one of their many lodging options, celebrate a farm

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Bosco Ramirez Sr. has been in the analytical testing industry for the last 30 years. The majority of the time in the Environmental Testing space and also food testing. He recently moved into the nascent Cannabis testing industry this year working for CannaSafe.Bosco has worked for the largest testing companies in the the environment and food industries and now with CannaSafe he joins the 13th Fastest growing company in the US according to Inc Magazine.Bosco holds a Masters Degree in Analytical Chemistry and an MBA. He has held titles of VP of Operations and Corporate Director of Operations in both previous industries. In his last event in the Environmental testing space he was President of Eurofins Eaton Analytical LLC.He joined CannaSafe with an interest in sharing the knowledge and experience acquired in the two highly regulated industries to help this company to stay ahead of the challenges that this regulated industry is expected to undergo.

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Kellan's currently serves volunteers for MJBizCon's Emerald Scientific Conference as well as an Organizer for the American Chemical Societies Cannabis division. His previous experience ranges from speaking at MJBizCon in the fall of 2018 on extraction science to managing the industrial-scale, carbon dioxide-based supercritical fluid extraction and ethanol extraction facilities for a cultivation and extraction company. In addition to serving as lead scientist he developed various standard operating protocols in extraction and designed methods for isolation, purification and quantification of medicinal marijuana products.

Prior to his experience in the cannabinoid extraction industry Kellan has a master's in Metabolic Engineering and Chemistry from Northern Arizona University. Additionally, Kellan’s background in analytical chemistry includes working on the Native America Cancer Prevention grant where he quantified uranium and plutonium on the Navajo reservation.

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Andrew DeAngelo is a visionary leader with a proven track record of enacting systemic social change and developing best practices in cannabis — he is the very definition of a trailblazer and someone who has proudly walked the road less traveled.

During his almost 13-year tenure at Harborside, where he currently serves as an advisor, Andrew has pioneered legal cannabis business processes and provided groundbreaking political engagement and thought leadership to the cannabis community. Andrew also lends his vast cannabis business and political expertise as a consultant for hire to the global community at large.

Andrew led the design and development of gold-standard cannabis retail by innovating many “firsts” for the industry. These include: introducing CBD medicines to heal severely epileptic children as documented in Discovery Channel’s Weed Wars, implementing the first lab-testing program in the history of cannabis dispensing, creating child-resistant packaging for edibles, standardizing inventory tracking, initiating senior outreach, and successfully preventing the federal government from seizing Harborside in forfeiture actions against the company in 2012.

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Jessie Kater is the SVP of Manufacturing for Curaleaf, a leading vertically integrated cannabis operator in the United States. Jessie has over 15 years of experience in product development and commercialization across defense, pharmaceutical and cannabis markets. Prior to Curaleaf, Mr. Kater worked at Waters Corporation where he led sales and business development in the Cannabis market across the Western US and Canada. Additionally, he was the co-founder of c3 Labs, the first cannabis contract research organization on the West Coast.

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James is a successful serial entrepreneur, with a lifelong focus on using business and innovation to effect large-scale change for the benefit of Humanity.

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John has over 20 years of deep enterprise and advertising agency experience across all marketing, sales, and IT disciplines. John’s experience allows him to advise on structuring sound strategies that address business goals and objectives. His extensive technology background stems from working with several leading technology companies throughout his career. John spearheads Applied DNA Sciences Cannabis vertical leading the vision, strategy, and product development for this emerging market. John also oversees the marketing for the entire company driving the strategy for its other core verticals.

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John Nemanic is a serial entrepreneur and investor, leveraging his extensive experience in starting, growing, managing and exiting firms. As co-founder, Chairman and CEO, he exited three very successful Internet start ups, Internet Direct, Tucows and Hostopia. In 2006, Hostopia raised 29.2 million (TSX:H), sold to Deluxe Communications for $124 million USD. John’s current interest are medical cannabis, hemp and CBD start ups, with a focus on Colombia.

John lives in Panama and Colombia, manages Panamanian/Colombian based business, and invests in Real Estate. As former member of EO Panama, John has a list of extensive contacts within Panama.

He is also a former member of EO Toronto (joined 1995) and YPO Toronto (joined 1999).

Joyce leads operations at Big Rock Partners, a strategic advisory firm serving investors and companies at the intersection of food, hospitality and cannabis. A long time craft cannabis cultivator, she co-founded an Emerald Cup winning operation, and served as co-chair for Women Grow, Sonoma. She is an advisor for various female founders of early stage companies that are innovating in cannabis, and an Advisory Board member for the Access & Innovation Project with a mission to advance a modern regulatory model that unites capitalism with inclusion. She was recognized by  San Francisco Business Times as a Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business  for 2020.

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In 2012, a bad slip and fall during pregnancy left this former High School Teacher riddled with chronic pain, until her academic else and desire for natural healing led the bold mom to enter the Cannabis space.

Now, an industry veteran and Master Educator, Mskindness B. Ramirez is the CEO of EBK Apothecary, Founder of Club Kindness, and Adjunct Faculty for the Los Angeles Community College District. With a given name that is a her self-proclaimed calling. She is currently manifesting her passion for Cannabis education into the development of a series of programs for higher learning, focused on business, history, and social equity.

Her new children's book, "Our Very Special Garden" was designed to spark the canna-conversation among families. And her podcast, Elevated Chats, is in its second season of sharing the Cannabis Inspired stories of today's most Critical Thought Leaders. Mskindness' work has been featured in MJ Business, Dope Magazine, The Long Beach Post, Inland Valley News, Element Women, LA Weekly, and VoyageLA Mag. She is a multi-passionate business woman to say the least. Who, through it all, remains gracefully balanced by her mindfulness training and daily meditation practice.

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