Blaine Hatab is a technical cofounder and CEO of Distru- a platform built to help operators in California stay compliant while simultaneously streamlining cannabis distribution and manufacturing. Distru covers inventory management, order management, CRM, fulfillment, logistics, and Metrc integrations.

 
Prior to founding Distru, he created Cannaslack, a slack community with 800+ professionals in the cannabis industry and spent 5+ years in hardware and software product management.

Blaine has a passion for building great products that solve real problems. His favorite thing to do is tackle complex supply chain problems and solve them with software.

 BriAnne Ramsay’s unique background in strategically planning the expansion of cannabis businesses, compliance, and seed-to-sale technology produce a fresh perspective for every type of operation (manufacturing, distribution, retail, and cultivation).

She’s known for taking on the most challenging cannabis compliance audits, large-scale point of sale migrations, and is highly-skilled in tech crisis support.

BriAnne's career background teaching and supporting clients with cannabis operations, compliance, and inventory control needs is unique in the cannabis industry. After years of managing multiple facilities and departments at Lightshade Dispensary, BriAnne understands first-hand the challenges that cannabis operators face when managing a compliant business.

 
Passionate about compliant cannabis, BriAnne started Rocky Mountain Cannabis Consulting as a way to support a sustainable cannabis community.

Ben Curren is the founder and chairman of Green Bits, the nation’s leading retail management and compliance platform for the legal cannabis industry.

Founded in 2014, Green Bits helps legal cannabis retailers run compliant, operationally efficient and growing stores. The platform serves more than 1,000 cannabis retailers across 13 states and processes more than $2.7 billion in sales annually through its point-of-sale platform.

In 2008, Ben co-founded Outright, an accounting program used by businesses for freelancers and consultants, that web-hosting company GoDaddy acquired in 2012. Ben is a frequent commentator in national outlets about tech, trends, business issues, and state and federal policy and regulation in the legal cannabis industry.

Industry Leader will have a 10 minute speaking slot to discuss industry trends, products, ideas, etc.

A seasoned corporate and securities attorney, Ilya Ross helps cannabis companies in all aspects of general corporate counseling and capital markets transactions, with a particular focus on public and private financing, corporate governance, securities law compliance, and strategic partnerships. Since entering the cannabis space, he has assisted cannabis issuers ranging from start-ups to multi-state operators (and everything in between) in structuring complex transactions for regulatory compliance, multi-state application, and growth opportunities.

With a decade of capital markets experience under his belt and an understanding of investor goals and demands in the institutional space, Ilya has a bare-bones approach helping clients, which focuses on straightforward deal-making, regulatory compliance, thorough diligence, and flexibility. 

Before joining Vicente Sederberg, Ilya worked at Greenberg Traurig LLP in Boston and Los Angeles and Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP in New York City. His experience includes representation of issuers, underwriters, investors and broker/dealers in connection with equity and debt offerings. Ilya has previously represented issuers and investors in the life sciences, emerging technology, and entertainment sectors. He has also represented dozens of public companies in capital raising, securities compliance, and stock-exchange related matters.