Presenting Companies - Investor Pitch Competition
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Investor Pitch Competition Schedule
2:31 PM – 2:45 PM - Introduction of Investor Pitch Competition Judges 2:46 PM – 2:54 PM - Leafwire - Peter Vogel, CEO 2:55 PM – 3:03 PM - Polar Extracts - Zach Sekar, Co-founder & CEO 3:04 PM – 3:12 PM - MyCureAll - Elaine K. Richer, Co-founder & CEO 3:13 PM – 3:21 PM - Natur Bazaaz SAS - Mohammad Hassain, CEO 3:22 PM – 3:30 PM - Manifest Seven - Sturges Karban, Co-Founder & CEO 3:31 PM – 3:39 PM - The Blinc Group - Arnaud Dumas de Rauly, CEO & Chairman 3:40 PM – 3:48 PM - iPill Dispensary - Dr. John Hsu, Co-Founder & CEO 3:50 PM - 3:55 PM - Voting by Judges and Audience collected and counted 3:50 PM - 3:55 PM - Matt Nordgren Announces Judges 3 top 3 presentations and announces audience voting of top 3 choices. 3:50 PM - 3:55 PM - Matt Nordgren Announces Judges 3 top 3 presentations and announces audience voting of top 3 choices. Format of Investor Pitch Contest
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Leafwire
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Polar Extracts
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MyCureAll
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ManifestSeven
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Natur Bazaar SAS
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The Blinc Group
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iPill Dispenser
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Peter Vogel, CEO, Leafwire
Peter is a serial entrepreneur, having co-founded several companies in the fin-tech/loyalty and marketing space. He jumped head-first into the cannabis industry three years ago and co-founded Leafwire which has quickly become known as the Linkedin of Cannabis. Leafwire has grown rapidly to become the world’s largest network of Cannabis business professionals with 30,000 members representing 12,000 companies. Leafwire also recently launched a Cannabis/Hemp job board with 1,500 open jobs from many of the world’s largest Multi-State Operators. Peter is a thought leader in the cannabis entrepreneurship and fundraising space and has been published in TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Dope Magazine, and Entrepreneur.com, among others. Peter has also hosted Leafwire’s Future of Cannabis Pitch Contests series in cities worldwide including Denver, Miami, Oakland, Los Angeles, Vancouver and Toronto.
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Polar Extracts - Zach Sekar, Co-founder & CEO
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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Elaine Richer, BSPharm, RPh, CEO & Founder, MyCureAll
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.
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Sturges Karban, Co-Founder & CEO, ManifestSeven
Sturges Karban brings to Manifest Seven more than 18 years of experience across capital markets, investment banking, asset management, and high-growth operations. He joined the Company in 2014 as Chief Investment Officer, and in 2017, was appointed Chief Executive Officer. In that time, he’s become the public face of ManifestSeven, having been featured in the Wall St Journal, Bloomberg, CNN, Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Business Journal and numerous other US and international media outlets. After graduating from Harvard University in 2000, Mr. Karban began his career in investment banking in the Private Capital Group of Robertson Stephens and in 2002, joined Jefferies & Company, helping to establish an investment banking practice focused on the financial services industry in the firm’s Boston office. In 2004, he co-founded KarEd, a residential real estate development company that purchased, rehabilitated, and managed 15 multi-tenant residential buildings Hartford, Connecticut over two years. KarEd sold its portfolio in 2006, and that same year, Mr. Karban assumed the role of Chief Operating Officer and Director for Cutting Edge Music Services, a leading provider of music services and financing solutions to the independent film and television marketplace. He was also instrumental in structuring a portfolio of businesses that invest in the music publishing and master recording rights for tracks used in feature films and television programs. This group of entities presently manages more than US$100 million in intellectual property assets. In 2011, Mr. Karban co-founded Meridian Advisors, a boutique consultancy based in Los Angeles, New York, and London, which advises companies in a variety of industries across a host of strategic and financial matters. During this time, Mr. Karban also acted as Executive Vice President of Finance for Caldera Holdings, a holding company formed to acquire distressed gold mining operations in the U.S.
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Mohammad Hassain, CEO, Natur Bazaaz SAS
Mohammad is described by industry peers as a sustainability visionary, a rising business leader, an administrator, a product design and STEAM educator, a technocrat, a Cannacrat and a caring human being. He has developed his skills and experience in a short time through the diverse roles and industries that he has worked in. His network in the global natural products industry especially in the Cannabis (/hemp) Industry shows his commitment and passion towards his vision of creating a sustainable & revolutionary business that can truly change the world as we see it.
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Arnaud Dumas de Rauly, CEO & Chairman, The Blinc Group
Arnaud is currently Co-Founder and CEO of The Blinc Group. He is a proven thought leader in the science, technology, and supply chain of vaping products. Arnaud currently serves as Chairman of the ISO (International) Standards Committee TC126/SC3 on Vaping Products & Chairman of the CEN (European) Standards Committee TC437 on Vapor Products. He is also a member of the informal Marijuana Science and Policy Work Group managed by the Colorado Department of Revenue’s Marijuana Enforcement Division (MED) and Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE). His assistance and knowledge of the vaping space have been requested by multiple regulatory bodies across North America, Europe, and Asia. Arnaud is also the former President of FIVAPE, the French vaping trade federation and now serves as the organization's Secretary-General for International Relations. Bilingual in French and English (dual citizenship), fluent in Spanish, Arnaud has worked in France, China, UAE, Tunisia, Spain, UK, and the USA. He frequently serves as a keynote speaker at international vaping and cannabis conferences across the globe. Arnaud holds an Executive MBA & a Masters of Engineering Degree. The Blinc Group - About Us: Headquartered in New York City, The Blinc Group designs, develops, supplies and supports premium cannabis vaping hardware. The company offers a curated collection of proven cartridges, batteries, ready to use vaporizers and complete bespoke device development to multi-state operators, licensed producers, processors, and brands. Blinc completes the value chain by providing its clients access to a suite of support services ranging from research and development, production, testing, standard operating procedures, training, and all the way to go-to-market strategy and brand communications consulting. With full control of the supply chain, the company’s unique “Powered by Blinc” process enables clients to provide innovative, safe, and quality-controlled products to cannabis consumers worldwide. To learn more about Blinc, visit www.theblincgroup.com |
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Dr. John Hsu, Co-Founder & CEO, iPill Dispenser
Dr. Hsu practiced medicine for 28 years as a physician in anesthesia and chronic pain management. In that time, he has learned to think like an addict to ensure a successful therapeutic outcome. After years of standing by to watch the opioid crisis develop into an opioid epidemic, he has now used his intimate knowledge of addiction to develop a solution to securely store, actively control dispensing, and safely dispose of unused opioids. This common sense approach will enforce prescription adherence, prevent diversion, monitor patients for respiratory depression and autonomously call emergency services if respiratory distress is detected. His drive to improve healthcare is based on passion, compassion and hope. Dr. Hsu’s business experience comes from founding 2 companies. Naomi solutions, a software company that produced scalable practice management software integrated with revenue cycle management software (RCM) and Picture Archiving Collection Software (PACS) for physician offices. The other company was Quivivepharma, a drug development company, that formulated a generic opioid and respiratory stimulant combination pill to enhance opioid safety in treating pain. He has 3 USPTO granted patents and has 20 pending patent applications. iPill Dispenser Presentation PDF
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