Stuart is the chief operations officer for Green Jar, the first cannabis retail store in the Matanuska Valley, which she helped open in 2017. She is also a member of the Alaska Marijuana Industry Association and, as an adjunct professor at the University of Alaska, became the first person at the school to teach a cannabis curriculum.

In 2022, Sheltraw and fellow co-founder Claudio Miranda began working on Budist, a digital forum of cannabis reviews by certified critics — which include certified…

Angelica Sanchez says her path into the industry was “a combination of good timing and hard work.” Sanchez was working as a budtender at the California dispensary Perfect Union in 2016, when she was given an opportunity that changed her life.

After playing a key role in facilitating Curaleaf’s transition from medical to adult-use sales in Maryland, D’nise Rebelle is taking on one of the most challenging markets in the country.

Angela Brown has big plans for Coast Cannabis, Massachusetts’ first licensed adult-use manufacturing company. 

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.