USCC Expo Experience

Dexter Rosa is the CEO of My Golden Hemp. We talk about the Latin American Cannabis Market. Over the past 24 months, the Latin American cannabis industry* has emerged from the shadows to command the attention of the international cannabis community as over ten major markets have legalized medical cannabis. Legal cannabis sales are worth $125 million in 2018, but that number is expected to rise to $12.7 billion by 2028. The figure comes from the recently published The LATAM Cannabis Report™, by market intelligence and advisory group Prohibition Partners, who have analyzed pricing, consumption and patient datasets in the region.

Michael Thompson is the CEO of Green Peak Media. A marketing and digital media expert in the cannabis industry with an extensive background in building some of the largest cannabis followings in the country. For over a decade, Mr. Thompson has built numerous successful e-commerce businesses through various forms of data-driven digital media advertising and influencer marketing.

Tiffany Cauthen is the technical sales representative of Across International. Across International is an industry leader in the manufacture of heat treatment, laboratory, and material processing equipment. Our company’s mission is as simple as it is profound, to empower those advancing science by offering innovative and high-quality equipment, along with the best customer support. As such, we’re fully committed to providing uncompromising reliability, innovation, and value to our customers. Our formula must be working.

Tiffany Cauthen is the technical sales representative of Across International. Across International is an industry leader in the manufacture of heat treatment, laboratory, and material processing equipment. Our company’s mission is as simple as it is profound, to empower those advancing science by offering innovative and high-quality equipment, along with the best customer support. As such, we’re fully committed to providing uncompromising reliability, innovation, and value to our customers. Our formula must be working.

Brandon Culp, Partner at OG Laboratories LLC. OG LABORATORIES focuses on providing the highest quality products and the best customer support in the CBD industrial hemp marketplace. Hemp is one of nature’s perfect foods, and its healing properties have been used throughout the ages.

Natural, Premium & Healthy
We believe in empowering ourselves with Smart Choices. We also believe in the benefits of natural healing. We started this company with the purpose of helping many of our family and friends who were wanting to live a healthier life, but, for one reason or another, found it to be too difficult, too time-consuming, or simply too costly. Although there are some great CBD products out there, we at OG believe we have the best products on the market.

Nancy Duitch, Founder, President, and CEO of Sera Labs, a leading online premier CBD brand, that has sold more than $4.5M since its inception in July 2018. Sera Labs has started producing hemp-derived cannabinoids into the skincare business. Your company is said to arguably have the most powerful hemp oil on the market presently made from certified organic hemp. The Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission initially instituted advertising restrictions on growers, processors, dispensaries, independent testing laboratories, and their third-party vendors.

KGK Science is a contract research organization that specializes in human clinical trials for the nutraceutical, dietary supplement and functional food industry and is KGK Science is an industry-leading Contract Research Organization accomplished in the design and execution of Phase I-IV clinical trials within the dietary supplement, functional food, and natural product industries. With locations in both Canada and the United States, we are recognized internationally for their ethical and specialized study of natural health products. Established in 1997, KGK's dedicated and experienced staff consists of board-certified physician-investigators and certified clinical research coordinators.

Ricardo Baca is a 20-year veteran journalist, keynote speaker, TEDx veteran and thought leader in modern media and drug-policy circles. He served as The Denver Post’s first-ever marijuana editor and founded news vertical The Cannabist, where he extensively covered the advent of adult-use cannabis and related issues across the country and around the world, as seen in the feature documentary Rolling Papers (Netflix).

Zachary R. Kobrin from Akerman LLP. Previously the General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer for a multinational cannabis company, Zack Kobrin’s practice focuses on cannabis and hemp law. In his prior capacity, Zack was responsible for all corporate and regulatory legal matters, including transactional, banking, and insurance matters; as well as ensuring compliance with federal, state, and local government regulations. Zack was also a key member of the team that helped take his former company public on the Canadian Securities Exchange.

Jill Ellsworth, Founder & CEO of Willow Industries. Jill Ellsworth is founder and CEO of Willow Industries, Inc., which provides state-of-the-art, ozone-based technology for post-harvest microbial decontamination. Marijuana Business Daily made Jill one of their 2019 Women to Watch in Cannabis. She has also been honored by cannabis lifestyle magazine, GreenDorphin, as one of the 20 Most Influential Women in Cannabis and Industry Leaders Magazine as one of the Influential Businesswomen in the Cannabis Industry.