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Peter Crooks

Peter Crooks

Mr. Crooks, a neuropharmacologist by education, brings more than 20 years of senior leadership experience in product and brand development across food & beverage, natural health products, medical devices and pharmaceuticals. Recognized in 2017 as one of Atlantic Canada’s Top 50 CEOs, Mr. Crooks has successfully led a multi-disciplinary team of chefs, food scientists, marketing professionals and product developers to become Canada’s leading food product development center. In his career he has overseen the development of over 2,100 products. He also has been involved in the conceptualization, design and build of three Maritime-based innovation and applied research centers and currently advises several Federal departments on the future of food and innovation. Peter, in his role as the Chief Product Innovation Officer for Dosecann Cannabis Solutions, now applies his experience in the design and development of a large portfolio of cannabis derivative products.

John Ryan

John Ryan

John is a graduate of the University of Hawaii’s Sustainable Engineering program who has focused his efforts on product development, energy efficiency and clean water technologies. A third generation Cannabis grower, John has turned his focus toward the future of horticultural lighting. Along with the team at California LightWorks, he is pushing the limits of what’s possible in the world of LED lighting for cultivation projects throughout North America.

Malay (Mel) Panchal

Malay (Mel) Panchal

Malay Panchal is the founder and CEO of Pure Global Cannabis and PureSinse Inc. He is a graduate of the University of Toronto School of Pharmacy and has gained vast experience across the pharmaceutical sector having owned and operated retail pharmacies, founded a pharma logistics IT company, and having operated a company that provided patient adherence
solutions to the pharmaceutical and clinical trials industries.
His success and entrepreneurial drive have given him experience and expertise in brand marketing, sales, logistics, project management, technology implementation, pharma manufacturing, clinical trials, and healthcare management. He looks to bring pharma best practices into the cannabis sector and is dedicated to improving the lives of patients and
consumers by developing and deploying the world’s most trusted cannabis brands.

Kristina Shea

Kristina Shea

Kristina Shea is a founding team member of Rapid Dose Therapeutics, senior marketing executive, single mother, and a medical cannabis patient herself. Kristina is a passionate advocate — with a mission to support ending stigma that surrounds cannabis use. She is also a proud feminist supporting inclusivity within corporations for equal representation in leadership roles and a voice at the table.

Kristina also has a personal medical story — she suffered from a serious brain cyst resulting in debilitating migraines and subsequent health conditions — including the undesired side-effects from prescription pain killers. Kristina then discovered the medical benefits of CBD — as a non-smoker, she desired a precisely dosed, non-smoking, delivery system other than smoking or vaping. This prompted her journey with Rapid Dose Therapeutics.

Rapid Dose Therapeutics is a Canadian life sciences company public on the CSE: DOSE. QuickStrip™, is their flagship delivery system and product. QuickStrip™ is a sublingual thin dissolvable film delivery system — providing a discreet and Smoke-Free Choice™ for cannabis consumers.

A No Smoke. No Smell. No Stigma solution.

Kristina now shares her personal story, and educates the public on the smoke-free delivery system, to support the normalization and education of medical cannabis applications.

To learn more about Rapid Dose Therapeutics, www.QuickStrip.life and www.rapid-dose.com.

Timothy Harvey

Timothy Harvey

Timothy Harvey is the founder and CEO of Lighthouse Genomics Inc., a company providing identity verification and reporting on the genetic characteristics of cannabis varieties. In 2019 Lighthouse Genomics released North America’s most advanced genotype array for cannabis and has compiled a world-class database of cannabis whole genomes, used to supply genetic analysis to clients at an unsurpassed level of accuracy. Harvey is engaged in dialogue with parties worldwide concerning the movement to establish an international convention recognizing breeder’s rights on a genome-by-genome basis. A former craft breeder, Harvey is inspired by the opportunity to make cutting-edge genomic science broadly accessible for the first time to all levels of the Canadian cannabis industry.

Brent Williams

Brent Williams

Brent’s background in both trading futures and investment consulting has paved the way for his formation of Highwater Financial, LLC. Highwater Financial is a hedge fund and consulting firm focusing on the opportunities specifically within the cannabis industry. Throughout his career, Brent has earned six FINRA Series Certifications – Series 3, 6, 7, 34, 63, and 65. He continues to utilize his financial and strategic expertise and cannabis industry network to expand Highwater Financial in 2019 and beyond.

Larry Dodson

Larry Dodson

As urban-gro’s Chief Technology Officer, Larry is leading the development and deployment of Soleil 360, the next generation of data-driven ambient computing monitoring solutions for controlled environment cultivation. Prior to urban-gro Larry served as the Vice President of Lighting Controls for Fluence Bioengineering. He is an accomplished technology executive with Fortune 100 companies including 20 years with Hewlett-Packard, with roles in software and product development, manufacturing operations, quality, finance and sales. Larry has Bachelor degrees in Chemistry and Electrical Engineering, and an MBA.

Varun Madhok

Varun Madhok

Varun is the founder and CEO of Infer.Green. He leads new product development for stress detection and remediation for cannabis and other cash crops.

Before Infer.Green Varun founded and/or led multiple businesses selling analytical solutions & services into the retail and the insurance sectors. He has had two successful exits. Prior to founding his first company, he worked for IBM Canada, Purdue University’s Multispectral Image Processing Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Varun holds a PhD from Purdue University. He developed new multispectral imaging and computer vision techniques for terrestrial interpretation in his doctoral research.