June 30, 2020
Hemp Opportunities Investor Pitch Competition
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Investor Pitch Competition Winners
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Investor Pitch Competition Video - 2 HoursInvestor Pitch Competition Video Schedule
2:02 - Tracy Ryan, Founder, CKSoul & Cannakids introduction of Julie Lerner, Investor Pitch Competition Moderator 2:03 - 2:03 - Moderator, Julie Lerner, Founder & CEO, PanXchange introductions of Investor Pitch Competition Judges Judges - Investor Pitch Competition - Go to Judge Bio Page Presenting Companies - Bios below on this page 1:21 PM – 1:31 PM - Elaine K. Richer, CEO & Founder, MyCureAll 1:32 PM – 1:42 PM - Zach Sekar, CEO, Polar Extracts 1:43 PM – 1:53 PM - Shane Doull, President & CEO, U.S. Weed Channel 1:54 PM – 2:04 PM - Mathew Stockard, Founder, Chef Matt Brands 2:05 PM – 2:15 PM - Coleman Beale, CEO, Bastcore 2:16 PM – 2:26 PM - Alex Hutagalung, Chief Scientific Officer, Levadura Biotechnology 2:27 PM – 2:37 PM - Vince Harkiewicz, CEO & Co-Founder, Grownetics 2:38 PM – 2:48 PM - Christine Yi, Co-Founder & Chief Brand Officer, Potli 2:49 PM – 3:59 PM - Dooma Wendschuh, Province Brands of Canada |
Presenting Companies - Bios on PageInvestor Judges - Go to Judge Bio Page |
Agenda
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1:00 PM – 3:10 PM - Investor Pitch Competition Schedule
1:00 PM – 1:01 PM - MC- Tracy Ryan, Founder, CKSoul & Cannakids
Judges - Investor Pitch Competition - Go to Judge Bio Page Presenting Companies - Bios below on this page 1:21 PM – 1:31 PM - Elaine K. Richer, CEO & Founder, MyCureAll 1:32 PM – 1:42 PM - Zach Sekar, CEO, Polar Extracts 1:43 PM – 1:53 PM - Shane Doull, President & CEO, U.S. Weed Channel 1:54 PM – 2:04 PM - Mathew Stockard, Founder, Chef Matt Brands 2:05 PM – 2:15 PM - Coleman Beale, CEO, Bastcore 2:16 PM – 2:26 PM - Alex Hutagalung, Chief Scientific Officer, Levadura Biotechnology 2:27 PM – 2:37 PM - Vince Harkiewicz, CEO & Co-Founder, Grownetics 2:38 PM – 2:48 PM - Christine Yi, Co-Founder & Chief Brand Officer, Potli 2:49 PM – 3:59 PM - Dooma Wendschuh, Province Brands of Canada Format of Investor Pitch Competition
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Speakers Listed Alphabetically by First Name
- Alex Hutagalung, Chief Scientific Officer, Levadura Biotechnology
- Christine Yi, Co-Founder & Chief Brand Officer, Potli
- Coleman Beale, CEO, Bastcore
- Dooma Wendschuh, MFA, Co-Founder, Province Brands of Canada
- Elaine K. Richer, CEO & Founder, MyCureAll
- Matthew Stockard, Founder & Executive Chef, Chef Matt
- Shane Doull, President & CEO, U.S. Weed Channel
- Vince Harkiewicz, CEO & Co-Founder, Grownetics
- Zach Sekar, CEO, Polar Extracts
Alex Hutagalung, Co-founder & Chief Scientific Officer, Levadura Biotechnology
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Alex received his doctorate in Biochemistry from Baylor College of Medicine for research focused on muscles and how they become functional. He went on to study yeast and how they move stuff around inside of their cells at Yale University and University of California, San Diego. His most recent professional experience before Levadura was as Director of Metabolic Engineering at Verdezyne, where he guided research teams on the production of dicarboxylic acids, which are chemicals used to make products such as nylon, lubricants, carpet, car parts, etc., via a fermentation process using engineered yeast. It's like making beer or wine, just slightly more complicated. Alex now focuses his efforts on making cannabinoids, with the goal of producing them as high quality, pure and consistent ingredients in a cost-effective and highly controlled process.
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Christine Yi, Co-Founder & Chief Brand Officer, Potli
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Christine Yi is Co-Founder and Chief Brand Officer of premium cannabis and hemp infused ingredients company Potli, where she oversees all things brand identity and strategy. Formerly a Strategy Manager for Ascena Inc's premium segment and management consultant at PwC, Christine is passionate about wellness, CPG, retail, customer experience, and growth .
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Coleman Beale, CEO, Bastcore
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Coleman serves as CEO of Bastcore and is one of the Co-founders and original seed investors of Bastcore. Coleman has over 15 years of professional experience working in the finance industry. He has worked across multiple disciplines including corporate and commercial banking, investment banking, fixed income securities, correspondent banking and payments. Prior to joining Bastcore as CEO, Coleman was the CFO of a high growth venture capital backed payments company. He also founded a privately-held eye wear company. Coleman is a graduate of the University of Alabama with a Bachelor of Science in Finance.
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Dooma Wendschuh, MFA, Co-Founder, Province Brands of Canada
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Dooma Wendschuh, MFA is Co-Founder, of Province Brands of Canada, the beverage technology company that has developed a first-of-its-kind patent-pending process for brewing fermented beverages from non-starch plant materials which is expected to lower costs for brewers, reduce environmental impact and create products that are less harmful for human health when compared with traditional fermented beverages. Province Brands of Canada has earned global notoriety (more than 2,000 mentions in the global media), raised more than $23 Million from venture investors and now employs some of the top research saccharification and fermentation industries.
Prior to founding Province Brands of Canada, Mr. Wendschuh co-founded and ran a Colorado-based cannabinoid research firm which sold to Canopy Growth Corp. for more than CAD $400 Million. Before entering the cannabis industry, Mr. Wendschuh was co-founder & co-CEO of sekretagent Productions, a film & video game production company & advertising agency with offices in Los Angeles & Montreal. Collectively, sekretagent’s video games grossed more than USD $6 billion in worldwide sales. sekretagent’s advertising division worked for The Coca-Cola Company, General Motors, Polaroid & others. Under Mr. Wendschuh’s leadership, sekretagent also sold 8 motion picture scripts to major studios & produced THE PLAGUE for Sony Screengems. Mr. Wendschuh graduated magna cum laude from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs at Princeton University, & received his Masters from the University of Southern California’s School of Cinema / Television Peter Stark Producing Program.
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Elaine Richer, BSPharm, RPh, CEO & Founder, MyCureAll
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Ms. Richer is a highly seasoned Pharmacist and healthcare professional that has held leadership roles in three Fortune 500 companies that include Rite Aid, Walgreens, and CVS Caremark. Ms. Richer is a graduate of Long Island University School of Pharmacy and has been a licensed pharmacist in New Jersey and Florida for over 20 years.
Ms. Richer wants to make our society a better place, and her goal is to decrease opioid overdoses, decrease deaths from suicides and overdoses, reunite families suffering due to drug addiction, and help patients achieve the most effective pain control. Ms. Richer is dedicated to providing quality patient care and ensuring improved clinical outcomes. In her 20-plus years as a pharmacist, she has seen tens of thousands of patients for dozens of different conditions. As a pharmacist, she always strives to help patients, make their lives happier, healthier, and ease their burdens. Addiction is a tough illness and she feels honored to help patients on their road to recovery. At MyCureAll, her mission is to optimize innovation to treat pain properly, while preventing addiction at its core, and ensure improved clinical outcomes. She has successfully trained and managed diverse teams of pharmacists and has in-depth experience in all aspects of the Pharmacy benefit managers (PBM) industry that are companies that manage prescription drug benefits on behalf of health insurers, Medicare Part D drug plans, large employers, and other payers. Name of Company: MyCureAll, LLC Year Started: 2019 Company website: www.mycureall.com Email: ericher@mycureall.com Company Revenue: pre revenue Number of employees: 6 How much capital has been raised or founders invested in the company to date?: $300,000
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Matthew Stockard, Founder & Executive Chef, Chef Matt
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Experienced Executive Chef with a demonstrated history of working in the food & beverages industry. Strong operations professional skilled in Catering, Food & Beverage, Business Planning, Entrepreneurship, and Cooking.
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Shane S. Doull, Founder & CEO, U.S. Weed Channel
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Shane has been called 'The Superman of Cannabis' after an incredible run of successes in cannabis activism. Shane is building America's next large niche broadcast network and media company. and has launched the U.S. WEED CHANNEL, America's first public Access Cannabis TV network. Initially, launched with just 20 hours of content USWC now has over 150,000 Roku app installations, recently launched its AppleTV app and web portal at USWC.tv! U. S. WEED CHANNEL is recognized by the United States Federal Government USPTO with Trademark and two Service marks. It has been reported that these are the first openly-cannabis intellectual properties in history. His other cannabis experience includes founding the 2.5 acre Blue Dream farm where he became a master outdoor grower and developed the Happy Farmers nutrient blend brand and starting Grand Daddy Phoenix, America'a first ever Mobile Weed store.
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Vince Harkiewicz, CEO & Co-Founder, Grownetics
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Vince Markiewicz is a serial entrepreneur and longtime indoor cultivator and has been growing plants in controlled environments since 2005. While cultivating a passion for growing food and medicine he also started an industrial design and manufacturing business. This took him to Shanghai, China where he spent six years bringing consumer and industrial products from napkin sketch to mass production. Megacities like Shanghai are feeling the real strain of population growth with lax environmental regulation leading to a tremendous amount of pollution in the air, food, and water. While not being able to take his daughter outside to play he realized there was a real need for a drastic shift in the way we produce some of our most vital resources, and a shift towards open and sustainable development practices. Within a few short years, Grownetics was founded to create an easy to use operating platform for indoor farms and greenhouses.
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Zach Sekar, Co-founder & CEO, Polar Extracts
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Zach Sekar is the CEO and Co-founder of Polar Extracts, a B2B cannabinoid manufacturing technology startup based in Los Angeles.
Zach is an experienced community-builder and also founded Startup Coil, as well as several conference series including L.A. Joint Ventures, L.A. Tech Happy Hour, Beach Cities Cannabis Conference, Startups in the Sky, and The Art of Tech.
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