Andrew Nunez-Alvarez, Advanced Agricultural Leadership Program (AALP) Class 20 Alumni, is the Founder and Project Lead Developer at LEGACYTEK: Medical Cannabis E-Commerce Division. Andrew’s mission is to help future generations of industry professionals become stronger leaders in order to shape the future of cannabis farming in Canada. Andrew’s passion for plants, technology and leadership is rooted in his journey cultivating medical cannabis for MMAR patients.
Andrew began his journey in cannabis as a Health Canada licensed designated grower for MMAR-licensed medical patients in 2011. Andrew was a formerly growing with the Hamilton Medical Marihuana Centre (HMMC) under Scott Gilbert, Andrew’s first mentor in the cannabis industry. Throughout this period, Andrew experienced first-hand the impact cannabis can have in enhancing a medical patient’s quality of life and recovery. The experience of growing cannabis for medical patients, to then becoming a medical cannabis patient to treat a serious injury, inspired his commitment towards becoming a leader in cannabis.
Andrew’s medical cannabis cultivation journey led him to pursue studying horticulture, cannabis production and leadership at an academic capacity. Andrew holds a certificate in Horticultural Sciences from Humber College, diploma in Horticulture studies from Durham College, post-graduate certificate in Commercial Cannabis Production from Niagara College and a professional certificate in Advanced Agricultural Leadership from the Rural Ontario Institute (ROI).
Throughout his academic career, Andrew received several honours and awards including the Landscape Ontario’s Ontario Horticulture Trades Association Post-Secondary Scholarship, Durham College’s The President’s Award for Excellence in Student Leadership, DCAA’s Leaders of the Future Award, Niagara College’s Certificate of Mentorship, Niagara College’s Certificate of Leadership, The Green Organic Dutchman Community Outreach Award, and more. Andrew led several clubs and societies, including the Canadian Students for Sensible Drug Policy Durham Chapter, Durham College’s Horticulture Society, and Niagara College’s Cannabis Production Society, and is notably the former Managing Director of Durham College’s Students Inc. student association in their inaugural year.
Throughout his professional career, Andrew has experience in nursery and cultivation licensed facilities, in both production and quality assurance roles across Canada. Andrew has lab tech experience cultivating psilocybin mushrooms within an academic research lab setting. Andrew’s roles in QA led him to discover a passion in learning and simplifying complex tech, and developing user-friendly no-code apps that meet regulatory requirements within Health Canada cannabis facilities.
Andrew is an ENFJ personality type, Influencer in DISC and holds an innovative KAI score of 122 +/- 10.
“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” – Ralph Nader
ABOUT LEGACYTEK:
LEGACYTEK specializes in no-code e-commerce, database development, digital marketing and business automations for online agri-businesses across Ontario. We design user-friendly e-commerce platforms and business management apps for non-tech-savvy teams.
LEGACYTEK x Grow Up Cannabis Conference & Expo:
LEGACYTEK proudly supports Grow Up Conference & Expo through the development and management of educational industry conference programming. LEGACYTEK’s goal in Grow Up’s industry programming is to provide cannabis industry supervisors and managers with industry-specific educational programming aimed to support their development & transition into leadership roles.
