Thinking Outside The Bud

John Lykouretzos, Co-founder, CEO, FocusGrowth Asset Management

John Lykouretzos is a co-founder and CEO of FocusGrowth Asset Management, LP. (“FGAM”). Prior to FGAM, he was the founder and CIO of Hoplite Capital Management, a long/short equity hedge fund he launched in 2003 and grew to peak assets of $3.7 billion before returning capital to investors in 2019. Prior to Hoplite, John was an Analyst and Portfolio Manager at Viking Global Investors and worked as an Industrials Analyst at Tiger Management. John started his career as a Financial Analyst at Goldman Sachs in the Investment Banking Division & Principal Investment Area. John graduated from Yale University with a BA in Economics and International Studies. He is a Trustee of the Tiger Foundation, a Trustee and Chair of the Investment Committee for the American Museum of Natural History and is also a member of the Yale Development Council.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-t-lykouretzos-48b2b0182/
https://www.focusgrowth.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/focusgrowth-asset-management-lp/

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Ed Keating, Co Founder & Chief Data Officer, Cannabiz Media

Ed Keating is a co-founder of Cannabiz Media and oversees the company’s data research and government relations efforts. He has spent his career working with and advising information companies in the compliance space. Ed has managed product, marketing, and sales while overseeing complex multijurisdictional product lines in the securities, corporate, UCC, safety, environmental, and human resource markets.

At Cannabiz Media, Ed enjoys the challenge of working with regulators across the globe as he and his team gather corporate, financial, and license information to track the people, products, and businesses in the cannabis economy.

Ed graduated from Hamilton College and received his MBA from the Kellogg School at Northwestern University.

www.cannabiz.media
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@cannabizmedia

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Joe Tierney, Founder, GentlemanToker.com

Joe Tierney is the founder & editor-in-chief of GentlemanToker.com, a DC-based cannabis blog that has followed the development of legalization there since 2016, after Congress blocked the city from implementing adult-use retail sales. Tierney's reputation as a staunch consumer advocate for craft cannabis and social equity in the marketplace led to Gentleman Toker becoming one of the most popular sites for brands entering the new gifting economy to advertise. These days, Tierney shares his opinions on the latest news and interviews guests across the cannabis, hemp, and psychedelic spaces on The Gentleman Toker Podcast.

www.GentlemanToker.com
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https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-gentleman-toker-podcast/id1609644358
YouTube @gentlemantoker8959
Instagram @gentleman.toker
Twitter @gentleman_toker
TikTok @gentlemantoker

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David Kooi, CEO & Co-Founder, Jointly

David loves cannabis, music, the natural sciences, and using data to solve problems.
Jointly’s cannabis discovery platform benefits consumers and retailers with:
-a mobile app that helps consumers reach their goals with cannabis, by providing them with a framework for success via purposeful consumption
-software that helps budtenders sell more cannabis to more people more easily, by arming them with goal-specific product performance data

David is the creator and author of the Theory of Purposeful Cannabis Consumption, in which he dismantles the stigma against cannabis consumption using Jointly’s unique data.

Before Jointly, Kooi built the most successful eCommerce and brick & mortar bicycle retailer in southern California by combining his background in business operations with his passion for nature and endurance sports. He later sold it to Trek.

He also plays the banjo, but not very well.

https://jointlybetter.com/
https://www.instagram.com/jointlybetter/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-d-kooi/

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Adam Stettner, Founder & CEO of FundCanna

Adam has 30 years of business, strategy and leadership experience in both Private and Public Companies. In 2021, Adam believed the timing and opportunity was right for him to bring his passion for business, innovative financing and entrepreneurial spirit to the Cannabis sector by creating funding products for all areas of this early stage, growth industry by founding FundCanna. FundCanna provides short term funding to all areas of the sector; cultivators, manufacturers, vendors, suppliers, distributors and retailers. In just its first year, FundCanna has underwritten roughly 500 files and funded approximately 250 unique files bringing much needed liquidity and financing solutions to the legal Cannabis industry.

https://www.linkedin.com/company/fundcanna/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamstettner

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Socrates Rosenfeld, CEO and Co-Founder, Jane Technologies

Socrates Rosenfeld is the Co-Founder and CEO of Jane Technologies. After leaving active duty in 2011 as a U.S. Army veteran and Apache helicopter commander, Socrates turned to cannabis to re-acclimate to civilian life. Because cannabis wasn’t legal at the time in Massachusetts where he lived, he was forced to rely on the black market, where he couldn’t be sure about the quality of the cannabis he was buying. The frustration of that experience, coupled with the lack of access to cannabis for his fellow vets, led Socrates to co-found Jane Technologies with his brother Abraham.

Jane launched in 2017 to provide an e-commerce solution for legal cannabis retailers. A big part of the platform is that customers can conveniently research and purchase cannabis products online. Currently, the company partners with over 2500 dispensaries in 37 states and Canada.

Prior to starting Jane, Socrates was an associate at McKinsey & Company. He graduated from the United States Military Academy and earned an MBA in entrepreneurship from MIT.

Instagram: @_iheartjane
LinkedIn: @jane-technologies-inc

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John Mueller, Chief Executive Officer, Greenlight

John Mueller is CEO of Greenlight. He is a partner at Mid America Capital investment bank and previously served as CEO of Acres Cannabis and Acres Cultivation. John brings extensive experience with state regulations and compliance in all areas of cannabis cultivation and dispensing. He has two successful decades of working with federal and state regulatory agencies, including the U.S. Department of Agriculture as well as the Food and Drug Administration. John has served in all levels of executive management primarily in the cannabis, food, manufacturing, and construction industries.

https://greenlightdispensary.com/
https://twitter.com/greenlightdispo
https://www.instagram.com/greenlightbrands/

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John McLeod, Co-founder of Cloud Cannabis

John McLeod is the co-founder of Cloud Cannabis, the leading vertically integrated Michigan operator that curates high-quality cannabis products to help customers live healthier, happier and higher lives. Since launching in 2020, John has been instrumental in developing and opening Cloud’s nine retail stores throughout Michigan, and he continues to spearhead growth into new markets. In addition to retail, John plays a direct role in the licensing and expansion of Cloud’s 70,000-square-foot commercial grow facility in Kalamazoo and the 15-000-square-foot processing facility.

John's journey into the cannabis industry began over 14 years ago while working as a police officer with the Detroit Police Department. After sustaining a career-ending injury, John was prescribed opioids but quickly began to endure the adverse side effects of prescription drugs. Seeking a natural healing alternative, John turned to medical cannabis and found the experience eye-opening, “like flipping a switch.”

After retiring from the police force, John went on to pursue a career in cannabis to provide others who may otherwise be addicted to opiates access to the healing benefits of the plant. John has remained unwavering in this mission through his work at Cloud and aims to fill the information gap surrounding the advantages of cannabis.

John currently lives in Detroit with his wife and kids.

https://cloudcannabis.com/
https://www.instagram.com/cloudcannabisco/
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Daryl Jendras CPA, Managing Director, Green Rush Accounting & Tax

Daryl is a CPA that brings 30 years of multistate and local tax experience to the cannabis industry. In addition, he assists all hemp and cannabis vertical clients throughout the country with capital raises by preparing pitch decks and financial accounting. As Managing Director of Green Rush Accounting & Tax, Daryl's focus is on maximizing company profits while minimizing tax liabilities.

https://www.greenrushtax.com/
https://www.instagram.com/greenrushtax/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryl-jendras-cpa-0482522/

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Wendy Bronfein, Chief Brand Officer & Director of Public Policy

Wendy Bronfein is Co-Founder, Chief Brand Officer and Director of Public Policy at Curio Wellness. As a member of the executive leadership team, Bronfein drives the company’s legislative agenda across multiple states, oversees the Curio brand, and all corporate communications. Under her leadership, Curio Wellness has become Maryland’s leading medical cannabis company, securing 90% brand awareness within the first year of operations.

Prior to starting Curio Wellness in 2016, Bronfein served as Creative Director of On-Air Promotions at LIVE! With Kelly & Michael from 2014-2016. In this role she oversaw the team responsible for launch, stunt and daily episodic promotion of the show. Bronfein also worked for NBC Universal’s Oxygen network where she rose from Senior Producer and Editor in 2010 to Creative Director in 2014.

Bronfein was a Managing Producer at BBC Worldwide Americas from 2006-2010 and has also served in various freelance production roles in New York and Los Angeles working on shows such as The Andy Milonakis Show, Wanda Does it, and The Sharon Osbourne Show.

Bronfein is a member of the Board of Directors for Pratt Contemporaries, affiliated with Baltimore City’s largest public library system. She is also on the Board of Directors for the Pearlstone Center in Baltimore, MD.

In 2017, Bronfein was named to Baltimore Business Journal’s 40 under 40 list and to Marijuana Venture’s “Women to Watch”.

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https://twitter.com/curiowellness
https://www.linkedin.com/company/curio-wellness/

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