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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Nav is the QA/RA Manager and QAP at Motif Labs, an extraction service provider based out of London, Ontario. He holds a BSc in Biotechnology from the University of Waterloo, and is a graduate of the Regulatory Affairs and Quality Operations program at Seneca College.
Nav holds a diverse range of industry experience having worked in the public, private, and government sectors. He brings with him government experience with Health Canada at the Office of Controlled Substances, Quality Control experience in the Food and Beverage industry with PepsiCo, and most recently as a QPIC with Veterinary Purchasing, a Licensed Dealer of Narcotics and Controlled Substances.
Having led GMP, CFIA, Controlled Substances, and Transport Canada audits, Nav brings the necessary skill set required to lead Motif Labs to achieving EU GMP standards.
Joya Halls brings over a decade of experience in health care and cannabis to her position of Director of Customer Care at Strainprint. With educational training in health sciences, nursing, pharmacy, and cannabinoid medicine, Joya rounds out her portfolio with extensive experience working in medical cannabis as an advocate for patients. A particular focus in her earlier career was working with Veterans within Health Canada’s Licenced Producers, and helping Canada’s Veterans access medical cannabis. She went on to holding management positions within medical cannabis clinics as well as managing one of Canada’s leading Licenced Producers before joining the team as Director of Customer Care at Strainprint.
Bryan is the founder of Channel M, Canada ‘s first and only TV network dedicated to the Marijuana lifestyle. Bryan has C-suite management and front-line creative and sales experience across all aspects of media and communications. From radio, television, film, digital media and advertising, along with strategic marketing and public/investor relations for some of the largest companies in the world including McDonald’s, BMW, Blackberry and 4 of Canada’s major banks, among many others.
