Today on NCIA's Cannabis Industry Voice we are joined by Peter Vogel, Tamar Moritz, and Socrates Rosenfeld. Peter Vogel is a serial entrepreneur, and angel investor, and will be attending NCIA. I'd love to connect you two so he can share some of the anecdotal insights form both investors and entrepreneurs in the space. LeafWire just unveiled it platform. They'd love to have entrepreneurs and investors that are looking to be part of the network to come and join the platform. As a consultant for t...
Aug 10, 2018•35 min
Cannabis Royalty, Real Estate, and Conservancy as we continue our look back at the 2018 NCIA Cannabis Business Summit with: Avalon Realty Advisors CEO Jason Thomas CannaRoyalty Corp. President and General Counsel Afzal Hasan The Cannabis Conservancy Co Founder & Director of Operations Brittny Anderson Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...
Aug 06, 2018•34 min
AEssenseGrows VP, Marketing Phil Gibson discusses aeroponics technology for accelerated growth in plants. Applied DNA Sciences Director of Cannabis Business Development Gordon Hope talks about a new solution his company has for providing provenance for cannabis to allow interested parties and regulators to forensically track the origin of cannabis and its byproducts called CertainT. The system provides an end to end solution to tag, test, and track, all data points captured in a secure cloud-bas...
Jul 31, 2018•37 min
Today on NCIA Bethany is joined by Buoyancy Digital's Founder & CEO, Scott Rabinowitz Buoyancy Digital is a Colorado-based management & digital media consultancy. Principals of the company have been engaged in the timely delivery of profit-building online advertising campaigns & management consulting services for over 20 years. They have bought and sold over $300 million in multi-channel digital media. Bethany and Scott talk about the digital marketing challenges and pain points like...
Jul 23, 2018•39 min
NCIA's Bethany Moore is joined by Jeffrey Gonring, Director of Marketing and Communications at BioTrackTHC. Biotrack was founded in 2010 and became members of NCIA in 2013. They have over 2,000 locations using their commercial software, with offices in FL, CO, WA, and Hawaii. They dive into how Jeffery got into the cannabis industry starting from the watershed moment to how the company developed into what it is now. The cannabis industry is highly regulated. Seed-to-sale traceability is a huge i...
Jul 09, 2018•33 min
Today on NCIA our host is joined by Jeffrey Gonring, Director of Marketing and Communications at BioTrackTHC. Biotrack was founded in 2010 and became members of NCIA in 2013. They have over 2,000 locations using their commercial software, with offices in FL, CO, Washington, and Honolulu Hawaii. They dive into how Jeffery got into the cannabis industry starting from the watershed moment to how the company developed into what it is now. The cannabis industry is highly regulated. Seed-to-sale trace...
Jul 09, 2018•33 min
Today on NCIA Cannabis Industry Voice we are joined by Daniel Erickson, Product Strategy Manager with Process Pro, who specialized in process manufacturing. With roots in custom software programming that date back to 1985, ProcessPro has grown to be a leading mid-market ERP software solution for the process manufacturing industry. Daniel has been with the company for 20 years and tells Bethany what it has been like working with Process Pro. He explains his story of how he got into the cannabis i...
Jul 09, 2018•35 min
Today on NCIA Cannabis Industry Voice Bethany is joined by Samantha Walsh, based in Denver, is an expert in public affairs strategies and legislative policy serving the cannabis industry, and was also the co-founder of the National Hemp Association and currently sits on the Colorado Hemp Industries board. Samantha is an expert in public affairs strategies and legislative policy whose clients include the Marijuana Policy Project, United Food and Commercial Workers Union, and various hemp and mari...
Jul 02, 2018•35 min
Today on NCIA Cannabis Industry Voice we are joined by Daniel Erickson, Product Strategy Manager with Process Pro, who specialized in process manufacturing. With roots in custom software programming that date back to 1985, ProcessPro has grown to be a leading mid-market ERP software solution for the process manufacturing industry. Daniel has been with the company for 20 years and tells Bethany what it has been like working with Process Pro. He explains his story of how he got into the cannabis i...
Jul 02, 2018•35 min
Talking about Asian Americans for Cannabis Education as Bethany Moore speaks with Ophelia Chong, founder of the Asian Americans for Cannabis Education and StockPot Images. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Jun 25, 2018•32 min
Talking best strategies for growing canna-businesses as NCIA's Bethany Moore is joined by Chris Vane and Terry Gibson from RoseRyan. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Jun 11, 2018•32 min
Today on NCIA's Cannabis Industry Voice our host is joined by Donna Shields from The Holistic Cannabis Network. Donna is a registered dietitian nutritionist and has spent her career in food product development, as a cookbook author and nutrition spokesperson. Her experience is broad and wide, ranging from the US Army Medical Corp, faculty at the Culinary Institute of America and as a health communications expert at Fortune 100 companies. After successfully treating breast cancer with conventiona...
May 21, 2018•35 min
Today on NCIA Bethany is joined by Aviv Hadar. The outspoken co-founder of Oregrown Industries, a vertically integrated cannabis brand, is a decade-long investor in the world’s largest tech company and comes from a background in digital communications and technology. Hadar was also a founding member of the world’s first million-dollar Kickstarter campaign, which saw over 12,000 backers pledge nearly $1.5 million dollars to bring an innovative smartphone product to life. In 2008, Hadar founded Th...
May 07, 2018•38 min
Today on NCIA Bethany is joined by ResponsiTech CEO and Co-Founder Joan Irvine. ResponsiTech is a company that focuses on responsible practices, procedures, and compliance with measures dedicated to ensuring that youth don’t access age-restricted content in the digital marketplace. The mission of ResponsiTech, which helps cannabis companies stay compliant by preventing their products and services from reaching those who are underage. They go into detail on digital marketing and age restrictions ...
Apr 30, 2018•34 min
Obstacles of Minority Cannabis Business Owners discussed as Bethany Moore is joined by new Minority Cannabis Business Association President Shanita Penny M.B.A. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Apr 23, 2018•33 min
Today on NCIA Cannabis Industry Voice our host is joined by Elizabeth Greiselman to talk about the advances in scientific solutions for cannabis. Liz came to Rocky Mountain Reagents, Inc. in 1998 with a move to Colorado. Rocky Mountain Reagents provides a number of services to our customers that larger companies simply cannot. RMR is an OEM manufacturer that produces custom product lines for several companies. When she was Director of Sales and Marketing, Liz was instrumental in expanding custom...
Apr 18, 2018•36 min
Talking Cannabusiness Workforce Management and HR as Bethany Moore talks to Keegan Peterson from Wurk, a workforce management and HR platform that serves the cannabis industry. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Apr 18, 2018•32 min
On today's episode NCIA's Cannabis Industry Voice Bethany is joined by Jay and Diane Czarkowski who head up Canna Advisors based in Boulder, Colorado. Canna Advisors has been involved in advocacy and education for the industry over the years, and that work has taken place in a lot of states across the country. They were on the show before about a year ago talking about the licensing that took place in various states across the country and their work on those applications, which may be the reason...
Mar 26, 2018•32 min
NCIA's Bethany Moore speaks with Mark Goldfogel, the Executive Vice President for The Fourth Corner Credit Union about Representing the Cannabis Industry to the Banking Industry and the Credit Union. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Mar 19, 2018•35 min
Discussing Corporate Citizenry and Corporate Responsibility in the Cannabis Industry as Bethany Moore welcomes former First Lady of the State of Oregon, and the founder of 3E Strategies, Cylvia Hayes. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Mar 12, 2018•33 min
Today on NCIA our host is joined by Jason Horst of Horst Legal Counsel. Based in the Bay Area, Jason represents a variety of cannabis clients, focusing in the areas of insurance coverage and risk management services. ason represents businesses, public entities, professional and nonprofit organizations, and individuals in complex civil litigation and appellate cases involving a wide variety of contract, real estate, insurance coverage, and technology disputes. He has a proven record of success re...
Feb 26, 2018•32 min
Today on NCIA Bethany is joined by Eric Schlissel President and CEO, GeekTek - Modern Managed IT and Data Security Services. Eric’s strong leadership and technical expertise propels GeekTek past the boundaries of a traditional IT service provider. GeekTek has a security-first approach to computing, focusing on elevating clients’ use of technology while navigating the ever-changing landscape. Eric cares deeply about the culture at GeekTek and leads by example based on longstanding guiding princip...
Feb 12, 2018•33 min
Roderick Elliott, Senior Vice President at Global Public Affairs talks to NCIA's Michael Correia and Michelle Rutter about the preparations being made for Adult Use Cannabis Legalization in Canada Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Feb 05, 2018•36 min
Today on NCIA Bethany speaks to cannabis entrepreneur Patrick O'Malley from Good Life. Patrick looked at the market and saw a shortage of one thing: a startup accelerator for pot-infused products. And so he started Good Life Colorado, an incubator of sorts for budding marijuana brands. The venture is more of a hybrid between an accelerator and a co-packer, a common practice among Boulder County's nascent natural food companies. Businesses get the benefit of O'Malley's industry contacts and exper...
Jan 26, 2018•36 min
Today on NCIA our host is joined by Chief Operating Officer of BioTrackTHC Dr. Moe Afaneh. Dr. Afaneh is a trained pharmacist and executive with 15 years of business experience. He’s an expert in developing and implementing the operations of multiple departments within complex organizations while maximizing revenue. In his role with BioTrackTHC, Dr. Afaneh’s background as a pharmacist is an exceptional benefit in understanding the rapidly evolving cannabis marketplace. He is particularly adept a...
Jan 17, 2018•31 min
Today on NCIA Cannabis Industry Voice our our host is joined by Pro MAX Grow Chief Operating Officer, Christie Lunsford. Christie is cannabis industry veteran and was awarded the first Cannabis Woman of the Year Award at the December 2015 Cannabis Business Awards. Additionally, Christie is founder of Endocannabinoidology, LLC. a consulting firm providing cannabis science, technology and education management assistance to businesses and investors in cannabis. Christie has served as a consultant d...
Jan 08, 2018•33 min
Today on NCIA's Cannabis Industry Voice our host Bethany Moore is joined by Gary Heferle of Nordic Analytics. Gary's background is in anylytical science, which makes sense since he works for a lab for scientific analysis. Starting off working with stem cells now he has moved to the cannabis industry with Nordic Analytics. Nordic is Denver's Finest Marijuana Testing Facility, Nordic Analytical Laboratories is staffed by industry-leading scientists with extensive experience in the analysis of mari...
Dec 15, 2017•30 min
Today on NCIA we are joined by The Medician Man Brett Roper. Roper has an extensive background in business development, having successfully 'shepherded' several Form 10 and S1 filings as well as NASDAQ up listing efforts, most recently co-founding Medicine Man Technologies, a unique cannabis business consultant and advisory service provider. Mr. Roper has a substantial amount of RE based experience, managing acquisition, interim holding, and disposition of substantial industrial properties in th...
Dec 11, 2017•33 min
Michelle Rutter and Michael Correia welcome the candidate for Governor of Colorado, who also serves in Colorado's Second Congressional District Jared Polis. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Dec 05, 2017•31 min
Today on NCIA Cannabis Industry Voice Bethany is joined by Brendan Gillis from Vapor Slide LLC, the 1,000 th member of NCIA. Vapor Slide is a Vaporizing apparatus that fits into the slide of a water pipe. It is used for vaporizing e-liquid, CBD oil, and cannabis oil. With huge rises in the use of these substances, Vapor Slide is the next natural step in the evolution in vaporizing. The current market for vaporizers has reached 1.7 billion dollars annually in revenue in the United States, growing...
Nov 30, 2017•32 min
