#376: Sara Gullickson on providing strategic business guidance for cannabis license applicants
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Sara Gullickson is the Founder and CEO at The Cannabis Business Advisors, a multi-faceted, women-owned consulting firm providing strategic business guidance for cannabis license applicants and current license holders throughout all stages of growth. Sara has more than a decade of experience building and scaling businesses, including a tech platform and turnkey retail model tailored to the cannabis industry.
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#375: LeafLink's Ben Burstein on the market maturity cycle and evolution of cannabis business models
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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, Ben worked at Citi Equity Research and Tuatara Capital. Ben is a graduate of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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#374: Happy Munkey's David Hernandez on transitioning from legacy to legal
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David Hernandez is the Chief Development Officer at Happy Munkey LLC. David has been instrumental in their legacy to legal transition into the cannabis industry, as well as establishing Happy Munkey as the East Coast's premier cannabis lifestyle brand.
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#373: Marion Mariathasan on taking the guesswork out of continually changing state regulations
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Marion Mariathasan is the Co-Founder and CEO at Simplifya, the leading regulatory and operational compliance software platform serving the cannabis industry. Simplifya offers a suite of services in 25+ states and counting, which have been specifically designed to help cannabis businesses remain compliant under the various states' enacted laws, as well as manage risks in a cost-effective way.
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#372: HARA's Bryan Gerber on running the largest pre-rolled cone manufacturer in the world
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Bryan Gerber AKA “King of Cones"s is the founder and CEO of HARA Supply. HARA Supply directly operates 14 manufacturing sites, spanning over 250,000 square feet of the highest-quality pre-rolled cone production using the world’s finest European rolling paper. Hara Supply currently has over 4,000 personnel based in India, along with HQ office and warehouse located in Las Vegas, Nevada. HARA Supply currently produces over a billion pre-rolled cones per year for the cannabis industry’s largest entities.
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#371: POSIBL CEO Jesus Burrola on California’s chaotic market dynamics
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Jesus Burrola is the CEO at POSIBL, the cannabis farm of the future. POSIBL is redefining what it means to produce the highest quality cannabis. Leveraging a state-of-art system that uses less to do more, POSIBL brings the best greenhouse technology and expertise from traditional agriculture into cannabis, and pairs it with the best possible genetics to produce the perfect flower — grown in an ethical, sustainable, free of pesticide and cost efficient way, year round.
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#370: Ayr Wellness' Khari Edwards on advocating and addressing racial, health and civic disparities
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Khari Edwards is the Head of Corporate Relations at Ayr Wellness. Khari has spent over 25 years of his professional career in public and government service, working for several elected officials, non-profit organizations, and city agencies where he focused on strengthening communities by advocating and addressing racial, health and civic disparities.
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#369: Andrew DeAngelo on the top financial management issues cannabis companies face
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Andrew DeAngelo is a visionary leader with a proven track record of enacting systemic social change and developing best practices in cannabis. He lends his vast cannabis business and political expertise as a consultant for hire to the global cannabis community at large, including several strategic partnerships with the world's leading cannabis-centric service firms. Over two decades as an activist, Andrew worked on a variety of voter initiatives which legalized medical and adult-use cannabis in San Francisco, Washington D.C, and the State of California. As a co-founder of Harborside, Andrew...
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#368: AVD's Michael Brosgart on creating vape hardware specifically for cannabis oils
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Michael Brosgart is the Chief Operating Officer of Advanced Vapor Devices (AVD), is a vape hardware manufacturer that specializes in building reliable cartridges, disposables, and batteries specifically designed for cannabis oils. Prior to joining AVD, Michael was the Vice President of Sales and Marketing at cannabis investment leader The Arcview Group, where he worked with some of the top brands in the cannabis industry.
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#367: Joey Espinosa on California's Cannabis price collapse, regulations, licensing, and high taxation
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Joey Espinosa is a Cannabis Permitting and Regulation Specialist with over 13 years of professional experience in the Cannabis Industry. He co-founded a cannabis delivery service in Monterey County, running alongside a non-profit mutual benefit Corporation that he founded himself and also ran based on his research of Prop 215. ==================== About CannabisPermits.com Since 2016, CannabisPermits.com has been committed to helping entrepreneurs establish legal cannabis businesses throughout California. Their experience working with municipalities and counties throughout California has...
info_outlineGarrett Bain is the President of EcoGen Biosciences, a vertically-integrated manufacturer and supplier of hemp-derived speciality ingredients in the U.S.