Modern Canna Labs chief science officer Jini Glaros initially planned on attending medical school to obtain her Ph.D. and though that didn’t come to fruition, she says she “could not be more thrilled about where I ended up.”

Robotics became a passion for Elmar Mair at an early age, and the infatuation became a driving force that took him from his small farming community in the Italian Alps to working for leaders in robotics such as Google’s X, Lucid Motors and Bosch.

Derval played a pivotal role in Deep Roots Harvest’s first major brand launch event and developing the company’s social media and loyalty programs. She also…

“In 2019, after struggling to find quality edibles in Montana’s medical cannabis market, Mike and I decided to take matters into our own hands,” Miller says.

As a senior consultant at Cannabis Now, Corey Herscu is the tenacious mind overseeing the company’s media department and its VIP clients. Herscu says it’s a role that was literally made for him.

Armed with a degree in chemical engineering and business consulting experience in the oil and gas industry, including a stint with ExxonMobil, Mario Naric saw Canada’s cannabis market as an opportunity to apply his extraction expertise to a new type of oil.

Michael Dykstra and Amber Vaughn are the husband-and-wife team behind the longtime Washington cannabis cultivator, Mt. Baker Homegrown, and the Evergreen State’s largest cannabis logistics company, Terpene Transit.

Brittany Hallet, the 31-year-old executive vice president of marketing for SLANG Worldwide, is one of the younger female executives in the cannabis industry, but she also has more cannabis experience than many of her industry peers.

Barry Vuong, the chief operating officer of Monko, a cannabis dispensary and delivery service in Washington, D.C., was initially drawn to the cannabis industry after learning about the growing trend of CBD and hemp products that were vying for space at his tobacco smoke shops.

Small and Packard are the co-owners of Goodiez Brands, a cannabis company that includes the ART Cannabis and Rescue Cannabis Co., brands — both of which are passion projects for the co-owners.