Thinking Outside The Bud

Thinking Outside The Bud

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Thinking Outside The Bud episodes

  • Mark DeRosa, VantagePoint Benefit Administrators
    Mark is President of VantagePoint Benefit Administrators, a key provider of employee benefit services to a variety of entities throughout the country. Prior to starting his own company, Mark spent ten years working in various capacities in the insurance field at Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Group Health Incorporated, and Precise Benefits Administrators. Mark’s primary role with these companies involved the design and market introduction of alternative funding programs to the fully insured and self-funded marketplace.
    Mark is the past President of the Group Insurance Association and currently serves on the local Board of Directors of the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors and the National Association of Health Underwriters. He holds a Master of Business Administration from Binghamton University and a Bachelor of Science in Business Economics from the College of Oneonta.
    29 min
  • David Champion, Co-founder at Baker Technologies

    David Champion is Co-founder and CPO at Baker - the leading CRM for the cannabis industry, helping dispensaries generate more revenue and build relationships with their customers in one easy-to-use platform.

    Brought up in Papua New Guinea, Portugal and Scotland, Champion most recently lived in Kenya, where he founded an educational non-profit in response to policies that unfairly exclude children from primary schooling. He graduated with 1st Class Honors in Architecture at Cambridge University, shortly before moving to New York City to work with Daniel Libeskind on the Ground Zero master plan.

    His first venture, UnitedInsight, orchestrated industry-leading events bridging behavioral economics research and business leadership, helping form organizational strategy at large and small companies that included Walmart, JPMorgan, Pepsi and others.


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    32 min
  • David Champion, Co-founder at Baker Technologies
    David Champion is Co-founder and CPO at Baker - the leading CRM for the cannabis industry, helping dispensaries generate more revenue and build relationships with their customers in one easy-to-use platform.
    Brought up in Papua New Guinea, Portugal and Scotland, Champion most recently lived in Kenya, where he founded an educational non-profit in response to policies that unfairly exclude children from primary schooling. He graduated with 1st Class Honors in Architecture at Cambridge University, shortly before moving to New York City to work with Daniel Libeskind on the Ground Zero master plan.
    His first venture, UnitedInsight, orchestrated industry-leading events bridging behavioral economics research and business leadership, helping form organizational strategy at large and small companies that included Walmart, JPMorgan, Pepsi and others.
    30 min
  • Andy Joseph, CEO at Apeks Supercritical

    Andy is the founder and president of Apeks Supercritical, a leading CO2 extraction system manufacturer, established in 2001 in Johnstown, OH. He is an engineer and skilled fabricator with experience in engineering and operations management.

    Andy and his team continually work to improve the processes and capabilities of Apeks Supercritical systems to increase processing efficiency for faster extractions requiring less energy consumption.
    Andy is the inventor of five patents, including the Valveless Expansion Technology featured on all Apeks CO2 extraction systems. He received his bachelor’s and master’s of science degree in Welding Engineering from The Ohio State University.
    Andy founded Apeks Supercritical while serving as the Director of Welding and Testing Labs for Edison Welding Institute (EWI), developers of manufacturing technologies. He first learned about mechanical operations and principles during his six years in the Navy operating nuclear submarine reactors. He is a two-time Navy Achievement Medal recipient.


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    36 min
  • Andy Joseph, CEO at Apeks Supercritical
    Andy is the founder and president of Apeks Supercritical, a leading CO2 extraction system manufacturer, established in 2001 in Johnstown, OH. He is an engineer and skilled fabricator with experience in engineering and operations management.
    Andy and his team continually work to improve the processes and capabilities of Apeks Supercritical systems to increase processing efficiency for faster extractions requiring less energy consumption.
    Andy is the inventor of five patents, including the Valveless Expansion Technology featured on all Apeks CO2 extraction systems. He received his bachelor’s and master’s of science degree in Welding Engineering from The Ohio State University.
    Andy founded Apeks Supercritical while serving as the Director of Welding and Testing Labs for Edison Welding Institute (EWI), developers of manufacturing technologies. He first learned about mechanical operations and principles during his six years in the Navy operating nuclear submarine reactors. He is a two-time Navy Achievement Medal recipient.
    34 min
  • JP Laqueur, Principal and Chief Connector, BrandFoundations

    Throughout his career JP has been creating understanding and connections between people and brands, buyers and sellers, companies and employees. He began his career at MCI, marketing some of the world’s very first Internet services, and seeing first-hand how a powerful brand – and a committed culture – could disrupt a 100-year old monopoly and change the world.

    Over the next twenty years, JP held senior tech industry marketing positions and founded a series of marketing and brand agencies – continuously honing his skills as a creative wordsmith, passionate storyteller, and student of human communications, branding, and corporate culture.

    Today, his firm BrandFoundations helps organizations unlock the value of their two biggest intangible assets: brand and culture. Sought out by private equity sponsors and purpose-driven CEOs – especially those rapidly pivoting, growing or transforming as a result of M&A – BrandFoundations develops powerful brand stories that energize a company's culture, create competitive separation, and enhance exit valuation.

    JP holds a BA in Political Science from Hobart College, is a first degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do, and can be found skiing, biking or hiking when not integrating brands and cultures.


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    36 min
  • JP Laqueur, Principal and Chief Connector, BrandFoundations
    Throughout his career JP has been creating understanding and connections between people and brands, buyers and sellers, companies and employees. He began his career at MCI, marketing some of the world’s very first Internet services, and seeing first-hand how a powerful brand – and a committed culture – could disrupt a 100-year old monopoly and change the world.
    Over the next twenty years, JP held senior tech industry marketing positions and founded a series of marketing and brand agencies – continuously honing his skills as a creative wordsmith, passionate storyteller, and student of human communications, branding, and corporate culture.
    Today, his firm BrandFoundations helps organizations unlock the value of their two biggest intangible assets: brand and culture. Sought out by private equity sponsors and purpose-driven CEOs – especially those rapidly pivoting, growing or transforming as a result of M&A – BrandFoundations develops powerful brand stories that energize a company's culture, create competitive separation, and enhance exit valuation.
    JP holds a BA in Political Science from Hobart College, is a first degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do, and can be found skiing, biking or hiking when not integrating brands and cultures.
    34 min
  • Steve Schain, Senior Counsel, Hoban Law Group

    Steve chairs global cannabis law firm Hoban Law Group's Pennsylvania and New Practice and Financial Services Group. With 14 offices and 441 lawyers, Hoban Law Group is only practice 100% devoted to cannabis and hemp law. Admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Steve represents entities, governments and individuals in choosing a structure, preparing and submitting license application, regulation, compliance and litigation, and drafting legislation. A nationally recognized banking and cannabis law expert, Steve is a The Legal Intelligencer, New Jersey Law Journal, and Cannabis Business Executive columnist, and serves as a court appointed judge pro tempore and arbitrator.

    Steve serves on, and makes regular presentations to, Pennsylvania Credit Union Association, Bank Secrecy Act Compliance Group, Cannabis Professional Advancement Series, and Greenhouse Venture, LLC. Steve also serves on both Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Philadelphia County administrative committees charged with drafting and revising state and local cannabis related regulations.


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    38 min
  • Steve Schain, Senior Counsel, Hoban Law Group
    Steve chairs global cannabis law firm Hoban Law Group's Pennsylvania and New Practice and Financial Services Group. With 14 offices and 441 lawyers, Hoban Law Group is only practice 100% devoted to cannabis and hemp law. Admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Steve represents entities, governments and individuals in choosing a structure, preparing and submitting license application, regulation, compliance and litigation, and drafting legislation. A nationally recognized banking and cannabis law expert, Steve is a The Legal Intelligencer, New Jersey Law Journal, and Cannabis Business Executive columnist, and serves as a court appointed judge pro tempore and arbitrator.
    Steve serves on, and makes regular presentations to, Pennsylvania Credit Union Association, Bank Secrecy Act Compliance Group, Cannabis Professional Advancement Series, and Greenhouse Venture, LLC. Steve also serves on both Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Philadelphia County administrative committees charged with drafting and revising state and local cannabis related regulations.
    36 min
  • Ronit Pinto, Founder, Honeysuckle Magazine

    Ronit Pinto is a filmmaker, founder and publisher of Honeysuckle Magazine. Bringing counterculture subject matter to the mainstream, Honeysuckle strives to normalize taboo subjects and put everything out onthe table through diverse voices and visual impact. Issues include sustainability, spirituality, social issue, culture and art. Ronit founded Honeysuckle in Detroit in 2013 and is now on her 7th printed issue titled ONE about sustainable ways of living, holistic thinking and regenerative agriculture. Honeysuckle is both print and online nad its print editions are nationally distributed. Part of Ronit's mission is to make jobs in creative thinking and artistry a more viable option.


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    30 min

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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…