Chairman Emeritus of Harborside, Inc., and Co-Founder, and President of The Arcview Group. Steve is a lifelong activist, author, educator, and entrepreneur who has spent over four decades on the front lines of the cannabis reform movement. His most notable business achievements include co-founding the Harborside dispensary group, which includes one of the first six dispensaries licensed in the United States; Steep Hill Laboratory, the first cannabis analytics company; and The Arcview Group, the first dedicated cannabis investment network. Most recently he founded FLRish, Inc., one of California’s largest vertically integrated cannabis companies. FLRish cultivates, processes, manufactures, distributes, and retails cannabis products in several facilities throughout the state.
Troy Dayton is the CEO of The Arcview Group and is one of the Top Ten most influential people in the cannabis industry. Arcview is the top publisher of cannabis market research, data and analysis. In 2015, Arcview helped launch a partner business accelerator, CanopyBoulder, and in 2018 launched the Arcview Venture Fund. Forbes named Arcview among the top 5 financial firms in the sector and Business Insider named them to their top 12 cannabis venture firms. Troy is also Chairman of the Board of the Marijuana Policy Project. He is also a founding and current board member of the National Cannabis Industry Association and co-founder of Students for Sensible Drug Policy.
Rodrigo Arcila Gómez, BS. MSC. Ph.D.(c), President of Asocolcanna (Colombian Association of Cannabis Industries). For more than thirteen years he was an Associate Consultant for Econometrics S.A. where he directed important studies, among them, “The Price Policy of Medicines in Colombia.” He also participated and directed several projects related to the social, agricultural, industrial, mining and services sectors. Rodrigo has been an Advisor to the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism in the development of chains. He is currently the Executive Director of the Pharmaceutical Chamber of ANDI, a member of the Board of Directors of the Latin American Institute of Responsible Self-Medication (ILAR), and is a member of the Board of Directors of the World Self Medication Industry (WSMI).
Troy Dayton
Rodrigo Arcila Gómez
28