Thinking Outside The Bud

Miguel Oliveira, Founder, Scandalous Chocolates

Miguel is a culinary and entertainment expert who brings a rich background in storytelling with a keen understanding of consumer food trends and culinary arts. He has also worked as a producer with CBS, ABC, and CNN. In 2017 Miguel founded Panther Burn Studios, a small music label focused on nurturing and developing up-and-coming musical talent. In 2020, Oliveira went on to start the Scandalous Chocolate brand, a first-in-class edible company that is pushing the limits of quality in the cannabis space. His culinary background and extensive experience in media and music certainly makes for a dynamic approach to the quickly growing cannabis industry.

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Jordan Isenstadt, Senior Vice President, Marino

Jordan heads Marino’s cannabis, higher education, and public affairs practices. A former advisor to the New York State Senate and the New York State Governor’soffice, he has led award-winning strategic communications programs for a broad spectrum of clients, including cannabis brands, higher education institutions, and labor unions. Some client highlights include Etain Health, FlowerHire, Come Back Daily, Beak & Skiff, Canna-House, Hiller PC, the New York Cannabis Growers & Processors Association, Ayr Wellness, House of Puff, Poplar, engin, Happy Munkey, Shinnecock Hemp. He regularly contributes to various cannabis and policy media outlets offering public relations insights. Jordan was named a Cannabis Industry Power Player by PoliticsNY in 2022. He also founded the Cannabis Media Lab and sat on the Board of Advisors of the CBD and Cannabinoid Industry Association.

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Larry Levy, Co-founder & CEO, Lucid Green

A serial entrepreneur, Larry brings a wealth of hands-on experience, with a focus on computational linguistics (machine learning), IoT and SaaS based finance and marketing platforms. As co-founder and CEO of Lucid Green, Larry oversees operations to bring LucidIDs to the forefront of cannabis supply chain solutions. Prior to Lucid Green, Larry served as co-founder and CEO of Semagix Group, which was sold to Warburg Pincus in 2006. Larry was also the founder and CEO of Protégé Holdings, recognized as an “Upside 100” company, as well as the founder of Citria and Delrina Europe. Delrina was sold to Symantec in 1995. Larry guest lectures entrepreneurship at the Cornell University - Johnson School of Management. He holds a BCom and BAcc from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, and is a chartered accountant CA(SA).

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Josh and Tara Joseph, Co-Founders of Big Plan Holdings

Josh and Tara Joseph host a podcast, The Big Plan, and are Co-owners of the Nashville-based investment company Big Plan Holdings, they are involved in cannabis, real estate, music and entertainment, lifestyle, fashion, and philanthropy. Josh and Tara discuss falling in love, drugs, having kids, being in business together, and everything in between. Above all, Josh and Tara are husband and wife, and more importantly, best friends. They are here to speak their truth and leave nothing uncovered.

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Hannah Stitt, Mountain Mover & Partner at Tectonic, LLP

Hannah loves resolving her client’s intellectual property and business problems. She provides services to clients throughout California and the United States. She focuses her law practice on solving issues involving trademarks, trade secrets, copyrights, unfair competition law, and data privacy.

After a decade of working in the California legal field and in movement lawyering, Hannah is not intimidated by the innovative or unknown. A firebrand litigator, Hannah ardently supports clients at every stage of their brand creation and development process. Her intellect, unwavering persistence, and network connections enable her to move mountains for clients.

Hannah joined the legal community servicing the California cannabis industry in 2012 and has educated attorneys on panels and presentations since 2018. As the cannabis industry grew and evolved, her law practice transitioned from deal-making and compliance work into complex litigation over intellectual property rights and related business claims. Her advice and counsel to both attorneys and industry operators over the years have shaped the market.

Currently, Hannah sits on the Ethics Committee for the International Cannabis Bar Association, as well as both the Barrister’s Cannabis, Alcohol, and Regulated Industries committee and the Intellectual Property committee for the Bar Association of San Francisco. She has also worked with the Prisoner Advocacy Network, where she fought alongside California prisoners to improve their living conditions and uphold their civil rights. Her committee work and pro bono work directly inform her legal practice litigating for clients in highly regulated industries.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/hannahstitt/
https://tectoniclaw.com
https://www.linkedin.com/company/tectonicllp/

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Bethany Gomez,, Managing Director and Co-Founder of Brightfield Group

Bethany has established herself as a trailblazer in emerging markets, with a focus on cannabis, CBD and wellness. As Managing Director and Co-Founder of Brightfield Group, Bethany's commitment to leadership and storytelling through meaningful data has positioned the company as an industry leader, playing a crucial role in shaping the cannabis, CBD and wellness industries both from a consumer and market perspective. Bethany has been featured and quoted in numerous media outlets including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNN, Bloomberg, Yahoo! Finance and more.

Prior to helping found Brightfield Group in 2015, Bethany managed a team of analysts for Euromonitor International, covering an array of CPG industries including Packaged Food, Drinks, Alcohol, Tobacco, Beauty and Supplements.

In her spare time, Bethany is an avid traveler, having visited more than 30 countries around the world.

www.brightfieldgroup.com

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https://twitter.com/brightfieldgrp

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Lilli Keinaenen, Founder & Chief Designer, Changemaker Creative

Changemaker Creative helps cannabis and sustainable consumer product makers stand out with unique custom branding and packaging design – and attract a cult following of loyal customers. With a focus on sustainable packaging for conscious cannabis and hemp product brands, she's deeply passionate about saving the planet through better design. Clients outside cannabis include award-winning global product brands sold at major retailers like Target, Williams-Sonoma, and Whole Foods, and cannabis clients with multiple Emerald Cup wins.

You can often find her speaking about sustainability, packaging, and design.

www.changemakercreative.com

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Christopher Tasker, Founder, Global Cannabinoid Solutions

Chris is a scientist helping cannabis businesses develop innovative strategies and solutions to thrive in the evolving eco-system. Chris is a Master of cannabinoid medical research with specific knowledge of the endocannabinoid system and its role in colorectal cancer and inflammatory bowel diseases. One of the first UK scientists to investigate cannabinoids in human tissue. Chris is the founder of Global Cannabinoid Solutions, a science consultancy which trains executives in the science of cannabis, helping them leverage 21st-century cannabinoid science.

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Nikki Lawley, LPN Founder of Nikki and The Plant, LLC.

Nikki Lawley is a patient advocate, speaker, and founder of Nikki and the Plant. She personally discovered cannabis as medicine after suffering a life-changing injury while working as a pediatric nurse.

In October of 2016, Nikki was a 46-year-old woman whose life changed in literally a second. Going from being a medical professional to becoming a patient was a major adjustment and almost cost this vibrant mother, wife, and career professional to contemplating taking her own life after becoming a victim of the traditional medical system, seeing over 50 doctors, and was on cocktails of drugs that each had more and more side effects. Four months after her injury, Nikki found plant medicine.

Nikki and the Plant is a pillar of medical cannabis advocacy and a champion for the importance of sharing patient stories. She is planning on creating the first product line focusing on cannabis and the science behind why cannabis helps support for her chronic pain, cognitive function, anxiety, and depression.

Nikki is on the Patient Advisory Board for NY State Americans for Safe Access and for Cannabis BPO. Nikki is considered a leading voice in the community, chronicling her journey from being a healthcare provider to a patient to an advocate. She hopes to bring worldwide awareness to invisible illness and disability. She has been a guest on multiple podcasts and shows including “Let’s Be Blunt with Montel Williams.”

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Website www.nikkiandtheplant.org

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