Gretchen Fox

Gretchen Fox

Gretchen Fox is a recognized executive and co-founder of MTO Agency [made to order], a social strategy and training agency that prepares businesses for success in the Digital Age. Fox provides a social vision and strategy for startups and Fortune 500 brands striving to take social to the next level. Prior to launching MTO, she served as Vice President of Social at Live Nation Entertainment, the world’s leading live entertainment company. As the Vice President of Social at Live Nation and Ticketmaster, Fox built an in-house social agency that led and facilitated the social training and education of over 100 marketers across North America, as well as provided online video training for more than two thousand Ticketmaster clients. Before joining Live Nation, Fox launched one of the first Social TV products to deliver interactive live streaming experiences at NASPERS R&D project and Silicon Valley start-up, MediaZone. In this role, she managed online marketing for some of the world’s biggest sports properties including AELTC’s Wimbledon Championships, IndyCar Race Control, Rugby World Cup, ING New York City Marathon, and NBC’s Winter Olympics. Her work has earned her the Billboard Magazine Top Women in Social, regular press coverage, and a role as contributing writer for Forbes...
Ashley Manta

Ashley Manta

Ashley Manta is a sought-after authority on mindfully combining sex and cannabis as part of her sex-positive lifestyle brand, CannaSexual®. As a professional sex educator, writer, coach, and facilitator, Ashley helps clients navigate these historically taboo topics to make sure they are interacting, loving, and feeling their best in and out of the bedroom. In March 2017, she moderated a panel at SXSW titled, “The Surprising Health and Sex Benefits of Cannabis.” She was a contributing writer to Leafly.com from 2015-2017 and currently writes for Dope Magazine and Culture Magazine. Her work has been featured in Newsweek and LA...
Alice O’Leary Randall

Alice O’Leary Randall

Alice is a senior spokesperson for the medical marijuana movement, which she co-founded in 1976 with her late husband, Robert C. Randall, the first person in the U.S. to crack the medical marijuana prohibition and legally receive medical marijuana from the U.S. federal government. Following her husband’s untimely death in 2001, Alice took a well-earned break from the front-lines of the medical marijuana movement and embarked on a nursing career. She retired in 2012 after working in the ER, an oncology practice, and hospice. She returned to the dramatically changed medical cannabis movement in 2014. She currently consults with Mary’s Medicinals of Denver and is editor-in-chief of the Mary’s Cannabis Primer series. She serves on the American Cannabis Nurses Association Board of Directors and the Scientific Advisory Board for United in Compassion (Australia). She is the author of Medical Marijuana in America: Memoir of a Pioneer and is a frequent contributor to Cannabis Now Magazine and Huffington Post. She is also a frequent speaker at cannabis conferences around the...
Giadha Aguirre

Giadha Aguirre

Giadha Aguirre de Carcer is Founder and CEO of New Frontier Data, the leading cannabis Big Data & Analytics reporting provider in over 68 countries around the world. An entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in business execution, management and strategic business development, Aguirre de Carcer has worked in investment banking and as a senior consultant in multiple industries across commercial/government sectors domestically and abroad. Having launched and operated four successful data-driven businesses, including disruptive technologies such as the original patent application behind Progressive’s Snapshot and Verizon’s Hum, Aguirre de Carcer is considered an expert in strategic positioning and risk management in emerging high growth markets, investment banking, and government and commercial intelligence data collection and analysis. These core skill sets, along with dynamic entrepreneurship, have defined Aguirre de Carcer’s career and drive her vision forward for New Frontier Data. Aguirre de Carcer is an official member of the Forbes Technology Council, and her work has been featured in Forbes, Fortune, CNBC, Fox News, CNN Money and other top news outlets, as well as in documentaries and books, including “Mary Janes,” “The Marijuana Show,” “The Great Green Gold Rush,” and “Breaking the Glass Ceiling,” among others. Aguirre de Carcer is one of The Most Powerful Women to Watch in D.C. and a Stevie Awards Maverick of the Year. New Frontier Data is a D.C. Area Start-Up to Watch, and PC Mag named the company one of just 15 Blazing Hot Weed Tech Companies to Watch. Fluent in five languages including French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese, she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations & Trade from...
Shawn Hauser

Shawn Hauser

Shawn Hauser, Esq., is a senior associate at Vicente Sederberg LLC, the first national law firm dedicated exclusively to marijuana law and policy with offices in Denver, Las Vegas, California, Washington D.C. and Boston. Vicente Sederberg was a key player in the historic effort to legalize marijuana in Colorado and have been leaders in similar efforts nationally and worldwide. Shawn routinely advises marijuana and hemp businesses in navigating the intersection between state and federal law, licensing, general business representation, investment, regulatory compliance, and intellectual property. Shawn works with clients to form compliant business structures to best position them for success in Colorado and nationally and to create innovative solutions to manage emerging and complex marijuana laws. Shawn directed Sensible Colorado’s local government implementation team following the passage of Amendment 64 and works with local governments, in both Colorado and nationally, to develop and implement marijuana regulations to advance the cannabis industry in a dynamic and responsible manner. After graduating from University of Denver Sturm College of Law, Shawn was an associate attorney at McAllister, Darnell, & Gottlieb PC, one of the first marijuana-focused law firms in Colorado. She was named one of “Denver’s Top Lawyers” by 5280 Magazine in 2015, 2016, and...