Heather Segal is a principal at Segal Immigration Law and has over twenty years of experience in immigration law. Her experience includes sitting as an elected Director to the American Immigration Lawyers Association Board of Governors for the last ten years. Most recently she sat on the National Liaison Committee with the US Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection. She was voted by her peers as one of the world’s leading and most highly regarded practitioners in corporate immigration law in “Who’s Who Legal Corporate Immigration.” She was recently listed in the 11th edition of the Best Lawyers in Canada 2017 in the field of Immigration Law. She is practices both Canada and the United States immigration law.
Mara Gordon specializes in the development of cannabis treatment protocols for seriously ill patients in California. She is the co-founder of Aunt Zelda’s, The Oil Plant, Calla Spring Wellness, and Zelda Therapeutics. Mara has presented at numerous medical conferences around the globe.
Aunt Zelda’s is a pioneering, data-driven developer of cannabis-based plant medicines. Their products are the result of years of research and development in consultation with knowledgeable physicians and world-renowned researchers. Utilizing time-proven extraction process improved with modern technology, Aunt Zelda’s offers organic medicines of precisely measured potency and purity that empower patients to dose to the milligram and unlock the therapeutic potential of cannabis.
The Oil Plant was created as response to the trend in the industry of white labeling offering superior options to those committed to delivering excellence in their products.
Calla Spring Wellness is a telemedicine platform utilized by physicians and nurses, expert in the endocannabinoid system, to guide patients in the best use of cannabinoid-based medicines while integrating with their standard treatments.
Zelda Therapeutics brings together some of the world’s leading researchers and clinicians active in the study and use of medicinal cannabis to treat a variety of ailments. Presently, Zelda is engaged in pre-clinical research in multiple forms of cancer, and clinical research in insomnia, eczema, epilepsy, and more.
Prior to Aunt Zelda’s, Mara worked as a process engineer, helping Fortune 500 companies create intelligent software utilizing the Rational Unified Process. This experience has enabled her to take a detailed and scientific approach to medical cannabis. Her expertise is now utilized through board positions with CannPal, Fundacion Daya, National Association of Cannabis Businesses (NACB) SGB, Patients Out of Time, and Gabriella’s Kitchen.
Darryl has deep expertise in molecular biology, neuroscience, and genetics in psychedelics. He holds a PhD in molecular biology and genetics. Prior to founding GoodCap, Darryl co-founded InPlanta Biotechnology Inc. and Pathways Rx, where he led the development and commercialization of proprietary plant genetics. He has also co-authored numerous peer-reviewed research articles on plant biology, genetics, DNA repair, epigenetics, and cancer.
Samantha Roman is an enthusiastic entrepreneur, board director and founding member of the PINNRZTM leadership team. Since 2013 she has provided strategic and operational leadership to three start-ups through successful acquisition by public companies in Canada, Australia, and the UK. Samantha has also advised cannabis operations and financiers in nine countries drawing on extensive experience gained while working for Canada’s leading companies in healthcare and financial services.
Jon Kozlowski has been implementing innovative technologies and promoting modernization in agricultural facilities for over fifteen years. Jon started his career as a Connecticut farm and vineyard owner and moved to sales management of greenhouse, hydroponics and aquaponics for commercial growers. He worked with cultivators nationwide in the agricultural and horticultural industries to provide custom solutions for their operations. He has brought his knowledge and experience in traditional horticulture to the cannabis industry for the last seven years.
Currently, Jon is the Regional Sales Representative, East Coast, North America for Surna, Inc. Surna develops innovative technologies and products that monitor, control and address the energy and resource intensive nature of indoor cannabis cultivation. Surna also provides consulting and reporting services for climate control, odor control, mitigation and biosecurity.
Well known and trusted in the cannabis industry, Mr. Kozlowski developed a Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) school for a company in Connecticut that provided industry education. He is well versed in all aspects of controlled environments and how to implement them into effective, efficient cannabis facility design. He has also used his experience in greenhouse agriculture to demonstrate the inherent problems with those structures in achieving precise environmental control and the benefits associated with sealed environments.
Mr. Kozlowski is often engaged as a speaker on climate control and energy efficiency. He has been a speaker at MJBiz Conference, Las Vegas, as well as over twenty events for the CEA school in Connecticut.
As a goal-oriented executive with a strategic outlook, John has a proven track record in tactical planning, evaluation, development, coordination, and delivery of enterprise information technology initiatives on time and on budget. He is a logical thinker, a strong communicator, and a hands-on leader that fosters the development of talent while providing a fun, engaging environment where contributions are recognized, voices are heard, and goals are met. John is driven by the highest standards of performance and have a passion for enhancing the overall user experience. Always eager to undertake new challenges and deliver dynamic, outside-of-the-box solutions with his team.
Alex Cooley is the co-founder of the first brand in the first legal adult use cannabis state, Solstice. A cannabis production/processing company based in Seattle has led to many firsts and many opportunities to shape the industry locally and globally. Through his diligent efforts, Solstice created the first ever fully permitted cannabis production facility in Washington State and has developed multiple sites since then. From inception, Solstice’s goal has been to cultivate the highest quality, most beneficial varieties, including the award winning, CBD-rich Sour Tsunami #3. All done through industry leading best practices.
Acting locally, he has helped to shape multiple City of Seattle ordinances and author the “collective garden model” of safe, legal access for medical cannabis patients. Standing on these successes Alex and Solstice have been very active at the state level and were key resources to the WA Liquor and Cannabis Board to develop the rules for the implementation of I-502, Washington’s cannabis legalization. In addition to working with multiple state agencies Alex has worked with the Washington State Legislature to craft better laws for patients and adult use consumers.
In recent years Alex has been crisscrossing our country speaking at industry events helping to guide the industry in a positive direction, being an expert witness for cultivation trials and works with the US Congress to reform federal policy. Recently Alex has worked to shape international policy at the UN General Assembly Special Session on Global Drug Policy. In addition to this he has worked to create more comprehensive code and rules that meet producers where they are; advising many governmental departments from the Seattle DPD to the Washington State Building Code Council.
Throughout all of this action Alex has never lost touch with his passion for the plant and recently celebrated 12 years of cultivating the plant. He also maintains his day job at Solstice, acting as the Vice President helping to manage the day-to-day operations, craft the long-term vision and maintain the same mission that the company was founded on 7 years ago.
Tracy Lamourie is the CEO and Creative Director of Lamourie Public Relations. In addition to her high profile work in the entertainment industry and for corporate clients in many different industries, she has worked in the emerging cannabis marketplace since 2012, writing for various publications, representing a myriad of cannabis related clients : authors, signing doctors, activists, advocacy groups, large scale producers, infused brands, craft producers, educators, and more. Working with the media to ensure a positive representation of cannabis medicine, cannabis consumers and cannabis businesses is an important part of her work. She is proud to have been featured in the “Women Of Great Influence” issue of Cannabis themed Skunk Magazine and was also referenced in Dana Larsen’s History of Cannabis In Canada. Tracy was also a Day Host at the prestigious O’Cannabiz industry Conference in Toronto.
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