by Grow Up Conference | Aug 9, 2019
Yu Seon’s practice focuses on the areas of intellectual property and regulatory law. Prior to joining Torys, Yu Seon obtained a PhD in Biochemistry and an Honours BSc (molecular biology) from McMaster University.
Yu Seon advises clients on intellectual property and regulatory law, in the areas of food, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, natural health products and cannabis. Yu Seon provides guidance on product licensing, packaging and labelling, promotion, compliance and privacy issues.
Yu Seon also has experience advising clients on patentability, validity and infringement, conducting prior art searches, and patent drafting and prosecution in a variety of fields including biotechnology, pharmaceuticals and food. She has prepared various intellectual property agreements, including IP licensing, IP assignment, and supply and distribution.
by Grow Up Conference | Aug 9, 2019
Trevor is Chief Operating Officer of GroPro and is responsible for all facets of commercialization for this technology. He has spent 25 years in sales and marketing and has successfully started, run and exited his previous start-up company. Trevor looks forward to learning more about the Cannabis business, and how the GroPro technology can help.
by Grow Up Conference | Aug 9, 2019
As Chief Operations Officer for Labstat and Labs-Mart, Mr. Fishback is responsible for developing and executing strategic operational goals to deliver exceptional client and employee experience required to sustain ongoing profitable growth of the organizations. Prior to joining Labstat in 2019, Mr. Fishback was VP and GM, Food Science and Safety Services for Maxxam Analytics (a Bureau Veritas Company), where he was responsible for national business development and laboratory operations for Maxxam’s Microbiology, Food Chemistry and Food Residue services. Mr. Fishback is passionate about creating innovative, customized solutions to address client needs while simultaneously ensuring the highest level of quality, safety and regulatory standards compliance. Mr. Fishback holds a M.Sc. in Biology from the University of Guelph and a 6-Sigma Black Belt from the Schulich School of Business at York University.
by Grow Up Conference | Aug 9, 2019
Les Bryan grew up on Vancouver Island and enjoyed playing in many varsity sports such as volleyball, soccer and football. As his children were growing up, Les volunteered kids sports, eventually becoming President of Victoria Rebels Football Club.
Les has been in sales for over 35 years and has worked with many national and international companies in Canada, US, Europe and Asia.
In 2012 Les joined Gaia Water Ltd as a director, eventually becoming Vice President of sales in 2014.
Les has specialized in the fast growing Cannabis industry in Canada and now his efforts have been opening up distributors in US and Europe.
by Grow Up Conference | Aug 9, 2019
Cannabis enthusiast and market researcher, Brad Martin writes the pancakenap.com cannabis review site, as well as cannstandard.ca, a competitive analysis website for the Canadian cannabis market. Both a designated and personal grower, Brad’s interests lie in new cannabis genetics, and how they impact trends in the traditional cannabis market.
by Grow Up Conference | Aug 8, 2019
Jason is Master Grower for BMF Washington and is a cannabis specialist who has been producing commercially for almost 25 years. He owned and managed a successful medical cannabis operation for 15 years and as Master Grower has managed some of the largest and most successful recreational cannabis operations in the country. His experience in recreational cannabis has spanned across multiple states and his understanding goes far beyond just plant care. His expertise is broad and encompasses both indoor, outdoor and greenhouse growing methods.
by Grow Up Conference | Aug 8, 2019
Richard Naiberg is a partner in the Litigation Group at Goodmans.
For more than 25 years, Richard’s practice has primarily been focused on intellectual property law and litigation. Richard has very extensive experience in patent, trademark, copyright and industrial design litigation across a wide variety of industries, including pharmaceuticals, medical devices, cannabis, computing and software, power systems, mining, financial services, music publishing, television and film production, magazine publishing, apparel marketing, beer and wine, restaurants and packaged goods.
Richard has been counsel on many landmark intellectual property cases, particularly before CIPO, in the Federal Court (including the Federal Court of Appeal) and on multiple occasions in the Supreme Court of Canada.
Richard also specializes in intellectual property portfolio management and due diligence and has extensive experience in developing strategies for the development, acquisition, licensing and enforcement of intellectual property of all types, as well as organizing defensive strategies for companies both in anticipation of and in response to allegations of infringement. Richard also provides regulatory advice in respect of pharmaceuticals and medical devices.
by Grow Up Conference | Aug 8, 2019
Reena is a cultural foodie and cannabis connaisseur, originally born in Toronto but of Trinidadian descent. She spent all of her 20’s earning a living as a social worker in the city of Detroit, Michigan but her interest in food culture would eventually steer her into a permanent career as a Restauranteur. As an open supporter of Cannabis, Reena has been advocating for the benefits all her life and utilises her culinary skills and reach to help positively influence the perceptions associated with Cannabis use. As a young girl, Reena witnessed her grandmother using Cannabis in the making of various salves and remedies while her father battled the law and society for his choice to partake. Many of her family members were victims to the War on Drugs so her participation in the industry is both personal and political and she sees it as one of the greatest and most ignored civil rights violations of all time Reena has been featured on the CBC’s The Current, Episode “Cooking With Cannabis”, Zoomer Media’s ONE Network, alongside most major Canadian publications including The Globe and Mail, The New York Times, The Canadian Press, Chatelaine, Now Magazine and other cannabis related projects. She is currently the owner / operator of The Limin Coconut , a Caribbean Catering Company and The High Society Supper Club, a Cannabis Catering and Event Group. Reena is also the Volunteer Coordinator for The Campaign for Cannabis Amnesty. Reena currently resides in Hamilton, Ontario with her husband, Louic and their cat Buddy.
by Grow Up Conference | Aug 7, 2019
With 20 years in the hydroponics industry Myles Omand has seen it all. He has been working the last 12 years in technical sales and marketing for BC Northernlights. Myles brings a honest and real insight into the home growing space. Specializing in helping clients to grow their own has always been his key goal. This year he will be launching the new feature packed Roommate Pro at Grow Up 2019. BC Northernlights offers unparalleled equipment and customer support. You can grow you own, but with BC Northernlights 7 day a week support you will never be growing alone.
by Grow Up Conference | Aug 7, 2019
Amar has an extensive background in Capital Markets and progressive Real Estate Investment banking experience. He held senior positions at Bank of Montreal (BMO), Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) before becoming the Executive Vice President and Head of Jones Lang Lasalle’s Debt Capital Markets group where he was the #1 Broker and was awarded the “Top Gun” award in 2015. During his career, Amar, has worked with clients to arrange more than $15 billion in real estate transactions. Amar also founded two organizations – The Commercial Real Estate Lenders Association (Connecting Commercial Real Estate’s Senior professionals through networking events) & Educate Kids ( a charity for orphaned children – www.educate-kids.org). Following his career with large institutions, Amar got the entrepreneurial bug and founded R2 Capital & Capstack Advisory where he continues to help clients finance real estate of all asset classes. As cannabis has become an emerging market in Canada, Amar has focused on helping cannabis clients find financing for their real estate, as traditional lending sources are slowly adapting to this industry. He holds a great pulse on which lending sources are willing to finance cannabis related projects.
