Thinking Outside The Bud

Steve serves as Think20’s Chief Marketing Officer. He excelled in various sales management roles for roughly 15 years working for Janssen Pharma, GlaxoSmithKline, Endo Pharma, and Neurocrine Biosciences. Over the past eight years, he has owned and managed GeneMatrix, a global laboratory consulting company. With the combination of Steve’s relevant background and experience, Think20 is uniquely positioned for immediate sales growth and success across all areas of the Cannabis and Hemp testing landscape. He will be leveraging his professional relationships to position Think20 as the preferred diagnostic testing partner for what is ultimately a global opportunity. His passion for the market, and creativity and approach to selling every day, is an expectation he has for himself and the entire Think20 team. Steve earned a Bachelor of Business Administration from Villanova University and is an actively engaged alumnus.

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Thinking Outside the Bud is a business podcast devoted to driving innovation in the cannabis space. During each episode, we speak with founders, investors, thought leaders, researchers, advocates, and policy makers who are finding new and exciting ways for cannabis to positively impact business, society, and culture. Have each episode delivered to your inbox by subscribing here: http://www.thinkingoutsidethebud.com/subscribe

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Jessica currently serves as a Cannabis and Intellectual Property attorney at Bressler Amery & Ross, DC. Jessica also serves as outside General Counsel for the national organization Minorities For Medical Marijuana and sits on the board of advisors for QA Canna, a cannabis quality assurance company based in New Jersey. Jessica also sits on the Federal Policy Committee for the Minority Cannabis Business Association.

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Andy Montgomery is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of HDCS, Inc. HDCS provides comprehensive compliance solutions and subject matter expertise to financial institutions that engage with higher risk industries including cannabis related businesses. Prior to founding HDCS, Andy spent more than 20 years as a senior executive in the banking industry. He is a former founder and CEO of community banks in Utah and California and served as a CEO of the Texas community markets for BBVA Bank. Andy is a subject matter expert in both the regulated financial services industry and the regulated cannabis industry.

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Inspired by a lack of stylish, safe cannabis storage systems and a distain for storing medicine in a shoebox, Apothecarry Brands CEO Whitney Beatty is a successful entertainment industry executive turned cannabis storage designer that’s spearheading her quickly growing start-up. After meeting so many like minded cannabis users, who lamented about a lack of good storage system, worried about securing buds away from kids and pets and who were tired of searching around for their stash to discover it dried out from plastic baggies and non-airtight dispensary jars, Apothecarry was born. The brand seeks to redefining the image of cannabis users who take pride and pleasure in their stash, while filling a hole in the marijuana paraphernalia market for everyone from the attorneys who tokes after their high powered workday, to the “stiletto stoners” who are hosting ladies night, to the seniors using medication for health benefits and everyone in between who demands the best in all things.

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Dean Harris is the former CMO/Head of Marketing at HotJobs, Vonage and Kayak (all IPO) as well as BlueCava and Forensiq (both acquired). He was a BrandWeek Marketer of the Year and EFFIE Award winner. Dean founded and ran a full-service advertising agency in NYC with accounts that included: Coke, J&J, Citi, Nestle, NatWest Bank, M&M Mars and Sotheby’s. He holds a BA from Carleton College, an MIA from the Columbia School of International Affairs and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

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Matthew Haddad is a breeding and cultivation specialist in the cannabis & hemp industries. He currently serves as the CEO for both Trilogene Seeds and Smoking Icons. Trilogene is a producer of cannabinoid rich hemp seeds for extraction efficiency and smokable hemp, while Smoking Icons is a premier producer of living soil organic smokable hemp flower grown indoors.

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David N. Feldman is a partner in the prominent boutique law firm of Hiller PC in New York. He is also a partner in the cannabis consulting firm Skip Intro Advisors LLC. His law practice focuses on corporate and securities matters and general representation of public and private companies, investment banks, private equity firms and high net worth individuals. He also actively advises on mergers and acquisitions and private equity, debt, venture capital and other financings. He has a strong focus on the cannabis industry, and has received numerous recognitions and accolades for his work in the space.

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Thinking Outside the Bud is a business podcast devoted to driving innovation in the cannabis space. During each episode, we speak with founders, investors, thought leaders, researchers, advocates, and policy makers who are finding new and exciting ways for cannabis to positively impact business, society, and culture. Have each episode delivered to your inbox by subscribing here: http://www.thinkingoutsidethebud.com/subscribe

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Keegan Peterson is Founder and CEO of Würk, the leading human capital management company for the cannabis industry. Keegan founded Wurk in 2015 after recognizing that cannabis businesses didn’t have access to the same scalable HR technology solutions as mainstream companies. Cannabis companies were repeatedly being dropped by workforce management vendors and Keegan saw the opportunity to build an HR and Payroll platform specifically to serve the rapidly growing cannabis industry. Under his leadership, Wurk now serves hundreds of clients across 33 states, including some of the largest publicly traded cannabis corporations in the nation. Würk now pays one in ten employees in the cannabis industry.

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