Renee Gagnon

Renee Gagnon

She is a serial startup founder, skilled at survival, stress and team building. She is both the first Transgender Publicly traded marijuana company CEO and the first female one – Thunderbird Biomedical Inc (now EMH.v) was the 5th licensed Federally sanctioned Medical Marijuana company in Canada (and one of a handful on the planet). Renee built the core team, created and executed on the business plan and raised $3.7 M in funding then took the company public ($25M Valuation at IPO)… She went on to use this insight to create a diverse workforce with strong female leadership across the HollyWeed North Cannabis Inc ™. organization. After exiting Thunderbird Biomedical Inc in Jan 2015 as founding CEO and Board member, she has chosen to focus on US-based infrastructure and supply delivery for the Cannabis Industry with HollyWeed North Cannabis Inc...
Carrie Hudson

Carrie Hudson

CEO and Founder of Carrie Hudson Media, LLC. CEO and Founder of Carrie Hudson Media, LLC. Carrie is a Health Promotion Strategist providing consultation and resources for all aspects of a healthy, WHOLE lifestyle. Carrie is a cancer survivor and supports the belief that disease can be cured with a proper pH balance, correct nutrition, movement, spirituality and natural healing including Medical Cannabis. She is a speaker, blogger, consultant, health coach, educator and mother of 3 as well as an advocate for legalization in her home state of MO and...
Shawnta Hopkins-Greene

Shawnta Hopkins-Greene

CEO and Founder of MMJ Advocates Group, CannX LLC, and Cannabis Development Corporation CannX specializes in proving safe legal and affordable access to medical marijuana treatment. CannX has an extensive network of medical providers in DC, MD, OH, PA, and NY to assist patient in need of a medical marijuana recommendation. Our company works closely with partner dispensaries to create demand and build awareness for state medical cannabis programs. CannX has also partnered with leading cannabis industry subject matter experts to provide consulting services to dispensary and cultivation applicants in emerging...
Dori Edwards

Dori Edwards

Co-Founder, Ayurvanna Inc. Dori Edwards is one of the feminist pioneers and entrepreneurs of the cannabis industry in Michigan. You’d never know it to look at her. Her eyes glisten and her smile is both mysterious and prophetic. You would peg her first as a sales representative for a line of feminine products and, indeed, she is, being a leading executive director with skin care giant Nerium International. But in the annals of Michigan cannabis history she became the first woman to own a dispensary when in 2010 she opened Tree City Health Collective, the first of three dispensaries that she built, owned, and operated in Ann Arbor. Dori had an immediate passion for the business that was reflected in her warmth and professionalism as well as in the design and style of her stores, the quality of her organically grown cannabis, and the effort she devoted to the well-being of her team. Tree City Health Collective was voted the #1 dispensary in the state and Dori became known affectionately by her peers and patients as Gangamama. “I see myself as a choreographer, she says. “I see the big picture from a long way out. I hire people with more talent than I have and then honor their talent by giving them the power to use it to benefit the team. As a leader, I believe you rise by lifting up others around you and letting them raise you rather than by stepping over them.” A visionary as well as an entrepreneur, Dori has an active mind that conceptualizes what is needed next to help build the cannabis community...