Sean Mosher
Dave Iacovelli
Legacy medical grower in California for 20 years, past hydroponic supply store owner, consultant on grow facility build-outs and cannabis brand development in the dispensary marketplace.
Shay Vitonsky
Shay Vitonsky, Sales & Marketing Director at DYNOMYCO, is a seasoned leader with over a decade of experience in scaling D2C brands and driving digital growth across global markets.
Known affectionately as ‘Vito’ to his team, Shay blends a data-driven approach with a genuine passion for innovation and team leadership.
His expertise in brand positioning, customer acquisition, and performance strategies is matched by his personal enthusiasm for tech, sports, and, of course, plants.
Shay’s mission is to share the transformative power of DYNOMYCO’s mycorrhizal fungi with plant enthusiasts worldwide, fostering a strong DYNOMYCommunity.
With a proven track record of delivering measurable results in fast-paced environments, Shay aims to give a virtual fist bump to all those who cultivate and share the ‘DYNOmagic.
Henrique Dias
Mechanical Engineer, Commercial Cannabis Production Graduate
Coleman Retzlaff
Coleman Retzlaff is Quest Climate’s National Director of Sales for Indoor Agriculture. With nearly two decades of experience in technical, operational, and sales roles at Therma-Stor and nine of those years dedicated to Quest, Coleman has been instrumental in shaping Quest’s reputation as a leader in dehumidification. His blend of technical expertise and customer-focused philosophy has helped Quest transform from an emerging brand to an industry benchmark.
A trusted voice in the industry, Coleman has extensive experience in controlled environment agriculture (CEA) and is an authority on optimizing temperature, humidity, and air quality to maximize yields.
Leigh-Ann Clarke
Horticultural containers play a crucial role in the cannabis industry, as they are essential for providing the proper environment for cannabis plants to thrive, both during the vegetative and flowering stages. As an industry sales professional it is my teams’ job to ensure that our customers understand our horticultural container offerings – both existing and new.
Jason Bent
Jason Bent is the Director of Policy Research with the Ontario Federation of Agriculture (OFA).
OFA is a member-led general farm organization funded through annual membership fees collected from 38,000 family farm businesses from across Ontario.
As OFA’s Director of Policy Research, Jason manages the team of policy analysts who monitor and advise on all policy areas of interest to Ontario farmers.
Kate Holste
Kate Holste is the leader of Boveda’s international business. She has followed her passion for relationship building and the international landscape to focus on expanding Boveda’s business outside of North America in both cannabis and tobacco. Boveda now has a presence in over 120 countries — with no signs of stopping.
Kate is also passionate about supporting other women in the industry. She is the co-founder of the “I Know a Girl” initiative with the mission to highlight women’s skills and expertise by increasing their visibility within their industries and beyond. She co-hosts the annual Elevate 8 brunch that encourages women in cannabis, from various countries, to authentically connect, encourage, and elevate each other. She looks forward to continuing to bring women together to network, share stories, and inspire one another to achieve their highest potential.
When Kate’s not engaging with her vast international network, she serves her local community as a board member for the local park conservancy and as a mentor with the VANTAGE business program at the local high school.
Interested in connecting with Kate? Find her at https://www.linkedin.com/in/kateholste/
Brian Kirkpatrick
Electrical nd HVAC contractor who specializes in cultivation facilities. We also own a hydroponics store here in Edmonton.
Sasha Przytyk
Sasha Przytyk (aka the Joint Doctor) has had a remarkable career, with extensive experience in both medicinal Cannabis and industrial hemp cultivation. He is currently the in-house breeder at Neptune of the North Ltd.
Growing up on an organic farm where Cannabis was a central, though illicit crop, Sasha sought ways to build a career in the budding “legal” sector. Sasha and his father Jerzy became the first recipients of an Industrial Hemp Research license in Québec, back in the late ’90s. Under the auspices of Gen-X Research, now relocating to Saskatchewan, he distributed the first short-season oilseed hemp variety to farmers on the prairies. All the while, he pursued a passion for collecting seed and breeding novel plants, with a special focus on small, fast strains.
Beginning in the early 2000s, Sasha began to establish “The Joint Doctor” and “High-Bred Seeds” as world-renowned seed brands. Through the revolutionary and enormously succesful strain “Lowryder,” the Joint Doctor pioneered the concept of autoflowering Cannabis worldwide. Lowryder is often recognized as the first 100% autoflowering variety and the Joint Doctor has often been dubbed the “Father of Autoflowering.” Widely adopted by seed companies today, autoflowering strains now represent a significant portion of the seed market.
Sasha has a frequent guest speaker and delegate at international Cannabis conferences and symposiums. He is also an accomplished publisher in the field, writing numerous articles on hemp and its cultivation. He has worked alongside several seed companies and cultivation startups, both in the medicinal and industrial hemp sector. Over the years, he has worked on several breeding projects for major seedbanks including Dutch Passion, and his own Doctor’s Choice seedbank based in Czechia.
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