Travis Howard
Travis Howard splits his time between corporate management practices and the legal areas of dynamic entrepreneurial industries. He holds a Juris Doctorate from the University of Colorado School of Law and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Colorado State University.
His cannabis industry experience started in 2009 with KindReviews.com and progressed with owning and operating a Boulder dispensary and multiple cultivation centers. He has been consulting the national industry since 2010, having lectured in multiple states for CannaBusiness Media and the National Cannabis Industry Association. He is currently mentoring the first class of students at Canopy Boulder and thoroughly enjoys sharing his experiences in cannabis.
While he enjoys the cannabis industry, Mr. Howard has a broad business background encompassing specialties in computer information systems, project operations control, and public speaking platforms. In addition, Mr. Howard’s diverse portfolio of professional experiences includes System Administrator roles, Office Director positions, CEO titles, and Board of Directors membership.
Todd Winter
Todd Winter began representing companies involved in the medical cannabis industry in 2008 shortly after the Attorney General Guidelines in California were released. He has a vast amount of experience in every facet of the industry, from indoor and outdoor cultivation, dispensaries, technology companies, testing labs and edible companies, including two of the largest edible companies in the world. Considered one of the foremost experts in corporate structures, transactional documents, intellectual property and licensing for the cannabis industry, Mr. Winter advises clients on real estate and legal matters from the Oregon coast to Arizona and everywhere in between, including Nevada and Colorado. Todd is a founding member of the NCIA, and was one of its first board members.
Tim Scott
Tim Scott is the managing director of Sussex Law Group, PC, a boutique law firm with offices in Denver and Las Vegas. He practices in the areas of business, individual and international income tax planning, exit and succession planning, captive insurance company structure design, estate planning and mergers and acquisitions.
Tim is a trusted advisor to the firm’s clients. He possesses a unique skill set to the business owner, bringing to a client an sophisticated tax, business and estate planning practice to complement the desires, plans and objectives of his clients. Tim has been named a Colorado SuperLawyer Rising Star in 2010 and 2011. He is the Past Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Denver/Boulder Better Business Bureau, and in 2012 served as a director on the Board of Directors for the national Council of Better Business Bureaus. He has received the Five Star Wealth Manager Award in 2012, 2013 and 2014. He recently concluded service to the Council of Better Business Bureaus, having served on its Finance Committee for several years. He remains very active in the community as a member of the Denver Rotary Club.
Tim Keogh
Tim Keogh is currently the CEO of Coastal Compassion, Inc., a Massachusetts Registered Marijuana Dispensary applicant. Tim has over 15 years of commercial real-estate experience in designing, building, and operating mixed-use waterfront developments. In 2011, Tim became involved in Rhode Island’s MMJ program, working with a network of caregivers and advocating on behalf of patient’s rights. Tim oversaw the implementation of industry best practices including laboratory testing, seed-to-sale tracking, and patient and caregiver training in preparation for Massachusetts’ robust application process. Tim is an active member of NCIA, an Advisory Board Member of Rhode Island Patient Advocacy Coalition (RIPAC) and was recently asked to organize the Cannabis Producers Association of New England.
Tim Smale
Tim Smale is co-founder and Executive Director of Remedy Compassion Center, a medical cannabis dispensary located in Auburn, Maine. Remedy is one of eight Maine Department of Health and Human Services regulated dispensaries. Since 2011, Remedy has served thousands of Mainers with high quality medical cannabis, specializing in CBD-rich medical herbal products, and mostly from its own garden. Tim also serves as the current chair of the cannabis committee of the American Herbal Products Association, and is President and Treasurer of the Maine Dispensary Operators Association.
Todd Mitchem
Todd Mitchem is a trusted business leader, business development expert and leadership advisor. Todd’s current mission has him working as the EVP of Corporate Development with one of the largest cannabis-related product companies in the U.S. Todd’s mission is to build a world-class culture and help O.penVape and OrganaLabs become the “Zappos of Cannabis” while developing ground-breaking products. Todd is a self-titled “corporate dropout” because he has created a new way to do business with purpose.
Since 2000 Todd has consulted for many of the world’s top companies. In his executive role at Eagle’s Flight Training Excellence (9 years), Todd guided companies in solving challenges, simple and complex, by getting more from their people. He accomplished this by helping each person get more from themselves, utilizing Eagle’s Flight’s unique brand of experiential learning as well as his own experiences in leadership, business development, and entertainment management.
Tripp Keber
As one of two original founders of the Dixie Elixirs and Edibles company, Colorado’s premiere licensed marijuana infused products manufacturer (MIPS), Tripp Keber now serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Dixie Brands, Inc. Widely hailed as one of this nascent industry’s indispensable leaders, when Tripp isn’t thinking about the future vision of Dixie and the industry, he is supporting the efforts of the National Cannabis Industry Association, where he is a founding member and current Board Director. Additionally since 2013, he has served as a Board Member of the Marijuana Policy Project as well as an Advisory Board member of the Medical Marijuana Industry Group in Colorado. In his current role as CEO of Dixie Brands, Inc,, Tripp gets to work on the really “fun” stuff and is responsible for the overall strategy, licensing, marketing, branding and expansion efforts related to the Dixie brand both domestically and internationally. Prior to building Dixie into a cannabis leader, Tripp served as Chief Operating Officer for Bella Terra Resort Development Company, and EVP of Business Development for Sagebrush Realty Development. He has a BS in Political Science from Villanova University and currently resides in both Aspen and Denver, CO with his family. He is involved in several charitable organizations located within his community, but his greatest philanthropic passion is assisting in the research and development of cannabis support for veterans suffering from PTSD.
Troy Dayton
Troy co-founded cannabis investment and research firm, The Arcview Group, in 2010 and serves as CEO. ArcView created the ArcView Investor Network where more than 470 high net-worth investors have pumped more than $41 million into 54 cannabis-related ventures and raised more than $600K for the legalization effort. Arcview also publishes The State of Legal Marijuana Markets, the most oft-cited market data and analysis report on the industry. Arcview co-founded Cannasure Insurance Services in 2011 and launched Canopy, a business accelerator in 2015. Troy is an elected board member of the Marijuana Policy Project and is a founding board member of the National Cannabis Industry Association. He is co-founder of Students for Sensible Drug Policy and also helped launch and served as the first sales director at Renewable Choice Energy, which was recently named the #1 green power provider by the EPA. In his spare time, Troy enjoys karaoke and Burning Man.
