Business Panel

What can set your company apart from all the rest? How do you minimize risk and maximize profits? How do you successfully market and grow your brand? This panel discussion and Q & A session is focused on how to grow a successful business. Whether its branding, marketing, packaging, business strategy, growth, accounting considerations or more, this panel can answer those questions from first-hand experience

John Hartsell

Technology in the Cannabis Packaging Space

John “Harts” Hartsell is the charismatic co-founder and CEO of DIZPOT, a leading-edge global cannabis packaging company providing customers operating in highly regulated markets with a single source branding, packaging, and proprietary technology solution, bringing products to market compliantly and quickly in the highly competitive CPG environment. Hartsell is actively involved on a state and federal level with lobbying and political activities that move the industry forward.

Teresa Kearney

Protecting Your Green: Utilizing Payroll, HR and Timekeeping to Keep Your Cannabis Operation Compliant

Teresa Kearney is the VP of Sales for Panacea Payroll. Panacea is solely focused on providing Payroll, HR and Timekeeping systems to the cannabis industry. Teresa earned a B.S. in Education at Indiana Univ. of PA and completed graduate study in Psychology at Texas A&M University. While residing in multiple states in the US, she has worked in a variety of fields. Teresa had been in payroll for 8 years before applying her extensive skill set to the growing cannabis industry for the past 4+ years.

Maxime Kot

How to Open a Dispensary 101: Licensing & Application Phase

Maxime Kot is president and part owner of national consulting firm The Cannabis Business Advisors. A cannabis licensing and compliance expert with six years of direct industry experience, Kot has built a proven track record securing multiple cannabis licenses across 17 state markets. As president, Kot oversees client relations and serves as company lead on projects involving application and licensing preparation, operational analysis, policy and procedures, and business development planning.

Francesca Vavala

No One Grows Alone: The Sales Approach that Can Save Cannabis Business

Francesca is the President of The Sales Joint, a sales agency that helps bring professional sales strategies, tools, and best practices to the cannabis industry on behalf of cannabis producers. With a background in education and sales, she believes that an effective, strong sales cycle is tied to better patient care as well as better business. Her team’s five years of national sales success is rooted in her company’s core philosophy, “no one grows alone.”