Thinking Outside The Bud

Ray founded Island in 2014 with the goal of building a great company around a great brand in an industry with the potential to change the way we live - cannabis. Prior to the cannabis industry, Ray helped build several technology companies. He most recently served as VP of Global Business Development and head of Authentication and Verification Solutions for Dun & Bradstreet (NYSE: DNB) where he was responsible for developing, launching and scaling data-driven SAAS solutions and applications for global commerce and trade.

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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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Adam Schlett is the founder of Safe-Reach.com, a veteran of the data and ad tech space and a passionate advocate for medicinal cannabis and responsible adult use cannabis. With a background in business development and sales, Adams last venture was growing data and advertising agency from a team of 4 to over 150 people. Safe-Reach was born as a remedy for the lack of scalable ad solutions for cannabis advertisers.

Away from cannabis and media Adam enjoys playing and producing music and riding motorcycles.

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Ashley is CEO and Founder of artery Inc.She is a FinTech expert with 14 years of global financial law, regulation and operations experience. Prior to artery, Ashley cofounded and was Vice President of Operations forGreenshoeAsset Management, an online hedge fund investment platform. She managedthe investment process and financial regulatory compliance of $600M+ transactions for Bessemer Venture Partners in their legal and operations group, including interests and responsibilitiesfor LinkedIn’s IPO and Amazon’s acquisition of Diapers.com, among many other exits, anddeveloping the regulatory compliance strategies for India’s new Foreign Venture Capital Investors and Foreign Portfolio Investors laws.

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Peter Grinspoon, M.D. is a primary care physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and an Instructor at Harvard Medical School. He is a board member of the advocacy group Doctors for Cannabis Regulation. He is the author of the memoir ‘Free Refills: A Doctor Confronts His Addiction’. He spent two years as an Associate Director of the Massachusetts Physician Health Service helping physicians with addiction and mental health issues

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