Thinking Outside The Bud

Jeffrey Hoffman, Cannabis Attorney, Jeffrey Hoffman & Associates PLLC

Jeffrey is a cannabis attorney and legalization activist with over 25 years of experience starting, operating, advising, and selling businesses. He is a leader in promoting pro bono advocacy for the rights of those impacted by anti-cannabis enforcement in the United States. Jeffrey holds a JD from the University of North Carolina School of Law and a BA in Russian and East European Studies from the University of North Carolina.

https://www.420jurist.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/heavyj/

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Sundie Seefried, Founder and President/CEO, Safe Harbor Financial

Sundie Seefried is Founder and President/CEO of Safe Harbor Financial, the leading provider of reliable financing solutions to the cannabis industry.

A 39-year credit union industry veteran, Seefried was the former CEO of Partner Colorado Credit Union (PCCU). Established in 2015 by PCCU, Safe Harbor was formed to provide an unmet need – compliant banking and financial services to the rapidly growing U.S. cannabis industry. Seefried designed a full scope Cannabis Banking Program for PCCU known as the Safe Harbor program, which has withstood the scrutiny of 16 federal and state exams to date. Now in its 8th year, Safe Harbor has grown in excess of 600 accounts spanning 20 states, and processed over $14 billion in cannabis-related transactions.

Seefried worked with PCCU to fully decoupled Safe Harbor from the credit union as a separate entity in 2021 as it moved through the process to obtain a public company status listed on the NASDAQ. It was successfully listed on NASDAQ September 2022; allowing it access to capital markets and the ability to scale nationally.

Seefried regularly provides cannabis banking education and expertise to legislators, regulators, attorneys generals, state officials, and financial institutions. She is on a mission to normalize banking for the cannabis industry, while assisting law enforcement and federal agencies to be more effective at combating illicit activities and protecting the financial system.

To share her knowledge, Seefried authored the book ‘Navigating Safe Harbor – Cannabis Banking in Uncertain Times’ in 2016, as well as contributed a chapter on cannabis banking in the university textbook ‘The Politics of Marijuana: A New Paradigm’ by Timothy McGettigan.

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/safeharbor-financial/
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/SafeHarborFinancialLLC

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Peter Cardoz, Founder & Owner, Cardoz Blended Gourmet

Making Gourmet Cannabis Approachable. As a veteran laboratory researcher and passionate cannabis advocate with a family background in food and hospitality, Peter is the founder of Cardoz Blended Gourmet, a unique cannabis and hemp company that looks to demystify cannabis cooking. He recently released the first line of hemp derived live resin infused culinary oils and was a competitor on America's Test Kitchen: The Next Generation Season 1.

https://www.cardozblendedgourmet.com/
https://www.instagram.com/pcardoz/
https://www.instagram.com/CardozBlendedGourmet/
https://www.tiktok.com/@pcardoz
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2asfdexhSrkeiWVY93sRVw
https://www.linkedin.com/in/pcardoz/

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Ben Burstein, Strategist, LeafLink

Ben Burstein is LeafLink’s Strategist, helping manage industry research, mergers & acquisitions, and strategic partnerships for the company. He’s been featured as an industry expert both on-air (ABC, FOX, NPR) and through digital channels (Cannabis Business Times, MJBizDaily, St. Louis Business Journal, Santa Fe Reporter). Prior to LeafLink, he worked at Citi Equity Research and Tuatara Capital. Ben is a graduate of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjaminburstein/
https://www.instagram.com/leaflink_/?hl=en
https://www.linkedin.com/company/leaflink/
https://twitter.com/LeafLinkUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

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Christopher LaPorte, Founder, RESET

After closing his award-winning nightclub INSERT COIN(S), Chris founded RESET, a consulting firm focused on innovation in entertainment and nightlife in Las Vegas. He was asked to lend his operational insights into the development of regulations for consumption lounges in 2017. After five years of working with multiple jurisdictions, government officials, and local stakeholders, Nevada passed AB341 allowing for the development and operation of cannabis social-use lounges. Today, partnered with THRIVE CANNABIS MARKETPLACE, Chris looks to expand the reach of the cannabis industry with a food and beverage-driven entertainment venue attracting non-endemic markets from 40M tourists visiting Las Vegas annually.

www.reset.vegas
https://www.instagram.com/chrisofcoins/
https://twitter.com/ChrisOfCoins
https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-laporte-52471b52/

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Antonio Panella, Cofounder & CEO, Bleaum

Antonio Panella is the Co-Founder & CEO of Bleaum, a software company that develops a unique and customizable online ordering engine for retailers, wholesalers and distribution operations with various features such as app ordering, web ordering, kiosk, CRM and others.

http://www.bleaum.io
https://www.linkedin.com/company/bleaum
https://www.instagram.com/bleaumwithus
https://www.twitter.com/bleaumwithus

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Christopher Walker, CEO, Co-Founder of HyPAR.farm

Chris Walker is currently CEO and co-Founder of HyPAR.farm. As General Manager of Heliospectra he installed commercial and craft style facilities with LED and software from the plant sciences company out of Sweden. This is where Chris discovered the HyPAR technology and decided to not only join the team, but fund the patent. Chris has a background in commercializing cutting edge agriculture and biofuel based technologies. With a passion for clean tech and other climate crisis mitigating technologies, Chris sees his pursuit to commercialize HyPAR as globally critical to saving the the world. Chris views the overly consumptive energy waste that is currently status quo in indoor growing as short sighted driven by the pursuit to automate everything.

http://www.HyPAR.farm
https://www.linkedin.com/company/86905565/admin/

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Andrés Fajardo, CEO of Clever Leaves

Andrés Fajardo, CEO of Clever Leaves, has over 20 years of leadership and management experience. He has served as a director of the Clever Leaves board since December 2020 and as president since 2019, and in various other roles at the Company since its establishment in 2016. Prior to Clever Leaves, Fajardo was a founding partner of Mojo Ventures, CEO of IQ Outsourcing, and a principal member at Booz & Company. He obtained a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering and Economics from Los Andes University in Colombia.

https://cleverleaves.com/
Linkedin – https://www.linkedin.com/in/andres-fajardo-3581a5/
Clever Leaves Linked in – https://www.linkedin.com/company/clever-leaves/
Clever Leaves Twitter – https://twitter.com/clever_leaves

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Merril Gilbert, Co-founder & CEO, TraceTrust

Merril Gilbert is the co-founder and CEO of TraceTrust. After 25 years of experience counseling startups from concept to table or shelf in food and beverage, Merril joined the cannabis industry in 2015. Since then, she has guided innovators, disruptors, and refiners in bringing their ideas to life. Merril is a provocative thought leader in the future of food and cannabis consumable innovations. Her ability to bring together strategic, operational management and vision for daily operations establishes standards for safety, accuracy, credibility, and profitability. Merril is on the NCIA Risk Management and Insurance Committee, an Arcview member, founding member of Women Employed in Cannabis, advisor at MISTA, and board member at Slow Money NorCal, where she has spent the past five years mentoring entrepreneurs.

https://www.linkedin.com/company/tracetrust/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/merril-gilbert/

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Sean Yoder, Co-founder, Aldertine Cannabis CFOs

Sean Yoder is the Co-founder of Aldertine Cannabis CFOs, providing world-class accounting management to the cannabis industry. He has more than 30 years of accounting experience, was a successful music industry entrepreneur in Los Angeles, and founded a successful non-canna accounting management firm in 2017. Sean grew up in Chico, CA, worked in the accounting department at Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., is a graduate of the California State University, Chico Center for Regional and Continuing Education certified bookkeeping program, and considered the late Joey Ramone a good friend. He has been an AIPB-certified bookkeeper since 2012 and a member of the Dope CFO VIP network since 2020. His experience in the cannabis industry stretches back nearly 30 years and he maintains strong ties to the legacy growers in rural Northern California’s Emerald Triangle with memberships in each county’s cannabis association.

https://www.aldertinegroup.com/
http://www.facebook.com/aldertinegroupInstagram
http://www.instagram.com/aldertinecannabiscfos/LinkedIn
http://www.linkedin.com/in/sean-yoder-cannabis-cfo/

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