Masters of Disruption - Dialogues with emerging industry entrepreneurs
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Masters of Disruption - Dialogues with emerging industry entrepreneursNov 17, 2021
Episode 6: Blockchain & Crypto
Welcome to the final episode of Masters of Disruption, Episode 6: Blockchain & Crypto! This week our host, Larry Zeifman, is joined by our CEO guests, Jonathan Hoyles, CEO and Director of Perk Labs and Jonathan Wiesblatt, Co-founder, Director and Officer of Liquid Meta. Together they discuss how blockchain and cryptocurrency differ, the broad based acceptance of cryptocurrency as it relates to our economy and the future of the industry.
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Perk Labs Inc. (CSE: PERK) (OTCQB: PKLBF) (FKT: PKLB) is the owner of Perk Hero, the mobile commerce platform on a mission to make shopping and dining experiences more engaging, convenient, and rewarding. Perk has partnered with vetted specialized brands across North America. Consumers can also buy digital gift cards from top merchants that include gaming and electronics, apparel, dining, and more. The Perk Hero platform, currently available in Canada and the US, was engineered for reliability and scale using enterprise-level technology fit for businesses of all sizes. The platform also features Shopify integration, contactless payments using Apple Pay, Google Pay, BitPay and Alipay, as well as its own digital currency called Perk Coin, a gamified loyalty program, e-commerce dropshipping capabilities, pre-order and pick up, and in-store payments with a QR code.
Liquid Meta is a technology-enabled company that is building proprietary software and tools to access, automate, and scale operations within the fast-growing DeFi segment of the blockchain industry. Liquid Meta is a DeFi and Web3 focused company developing best-in-class technology and operational expertise allowing it to build a scaled business within proof-of-stake (“PoS”) based networks.
Episode 5: Cannabis
Welcome to Masters of Disruption, Episode 5: Cannabis! This week our host, Larry Zeifman, is joined by our CEO guests, Bradley Moore, CEO and Director of Global Cannabis Applications Corp and Victor E. Mancebo, CEO and Board Director at TheraTrue, Inc, Executive Chairman of EduCanndo, and Board Director of Vireo Health, Inc. Together they discuss the importance of data in both the medical and recreational cannabis space, the future of the industry and lessons learned when expanding globally.
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Zeifmans is a full-service tax, accounting and consulting firm based in Toronto, Canada, ranked as one of Canada’s top 20 firms by revenue. Beyond the traditional offering, our services include business advisory, valuation, corporate finance, transaction services, corporate turnaround and insolvency, and estate and succession planning, supporting our 9,000+ clients through every step of the business life cycle. For more on our services relating directly to the cannabis and psychedelics industry, visit zeifmans.ca.
About Global Cannabis Applications Corp
GCAC is a global leader in designing, developing, SaaS licensing and acquiring innovative data technologies for the medical cannabis industry. The Citizen Green and Efixii platforms are the world's first end-to-end - from patient to regulator - medical cannabis data solutions. They use six core technologies: mobile applications, artificial intelligence, RegTech, smart databases, Ethereum blockchain and GCAC smart rewards. These technologies transparently disclose cannabis chain-of-custody events, thereby enabling patients to provide crowd-sourced medical cannabis efficacy data. Driven by digital and cannabis industry experts, GCAC is focused on generating revenue from SaaS licensing its technology and acquiring high quality cannabis datasets that improve patient outcomes and to become the world’s largest cannabis efficacy data provider.
TheraTrue was founded in Georgia in 2019 by scientist, entrepreneur, and investor, Dr. Paul Judge. TheraTrue prides itself on its commitment to operating fully regulated, transparent, and highly professional facilities that will deliver vital products to improve the quality of life for patients suffering from debilitating medical conditions. TheraTrue will redefine the medical cannabis patient experience by offering an elevated in-store atmosphere, opportunities for patient education and unparalleled customer service. TheraTrue’s mission is to deliver safe, quality products developed at our processing site and thoughtful, personalized patient care through our proposed retail outlets. TheraTrue’s medical advisory board includes over 20 physicians, pharmacists and scientists. TheraTrue has partnered with several universities in Georgia and Virginia to conduct research.
Episode 4: Esports
Welcome to Masters of Disruption, Episode 4: Esports! This week our host, Larry Zeifman, is joined by our CEO guests, Ben Feferman, CEO of Amuka Esports and Trevor Doerksen, CEO of ePlay Digital. Together they discuss how COVID has impacted the growth and popularity of esports, the importance of establishing strong corporate partnerships and when to jump on the trend bandwagon.
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Zeifmans is a full-service tax, accounting and consulting firm based in Toronto, Canada, ranked as one of Canada’s top 20 firms by revenue. Beyond the traditional offering, our services include business advisory, valuation, corporate finance, transaction services, corporate turnaround and insolvency, and estate and succession planning, supporting our 9,000+ clients through every step of the business life cycle. For more on our services relating directly to the cannabis and psychedelics industry, visit zeifmans.ca.
Amuka Esports is a diversified Esports company focusing on teams, tournaments, content, and venues. We create localized hubs in cities across North America, each consisting of a venue, tournament organizer, content team, merchandise brands, and incubator. Amuka also operates Canada’s largest Esports venue along with several teams based in North America and Europe. Learn more about our impact on the North American Esports scene at our official website and on our Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.
ePlay Digital Inc. is a mobile game creator and publisher specializing in sports, esports and entertainment augmented reality titles, including their new augmented reality running app, Klocked.me, flagship title Big Shot Basketball and Howie Mandel mobile game collaboration - HowiesGames.com. ePlay is operated by an award-winning team of sports, gaming and eSports leaders as well as broadcast and digital technology industry experts, software engineers and athletes who have brought dozens of game titles to market for companies including Time Warner Cable, ESPN, Sony Pictures, AXS TV, Intel, AXN, Fiat, CBS, and others.
Episode 3: Psychedelics
Welcome to Masters of Disruption, Episode 3: Psychedelics! This week our host, Larry Zeifman, is joined by our CEO guests, Doug Drysdale, CEO of Cybin and Jeffrey Stevens, CEO of Psyched Wellness. Together they discuss the rapid growth of the psychedelics industry, how to stand out from your competition and explore how to be an emerging industry thought leader.
Have questions or want to learn more? Contact us directly at info@zeifmans.ca.
Zeifmans is a full-service tax, accounting and consulting firm based in Toronto, Canada, ranked as one of Canada’s top 20 firms by revenue. Beyond the traditional offering, our services include business advisory, valuation, corporate finance, transaction services, corporate turnaround and insolvency, and estate and succession planning, supporting our 9,000+ clients through every step of the business life cycle. For more on our services relating directly to the cannabis and psychedelics industry, visit zeifmans.ca.
Cybin is a leading biotechnology company focused on progressing psychedelic therapeutics by utilizing proprietary drug discovery platforms, innovative drug delivery systems, novel formulation approaches and treatment regimens for psychiatric disorders.
Psyched Wellness is a Canadian-based health supplements company dedicated to the distribution of mushroom-derived products and associated consumer packaged goods. The Company’s objective is to create premium mushroom-derived products that have the potential to become a leading North American brand in the emerging functional food category. The Company is in the process of developing a line of Amanita muscaria-derived water-based extracts, teas and capsules designed to help with three health objectives: promote stress relief, relaxation and assist with restful sleeping.
Episode 2: Green & Sustainability
Welcome to Masters of Disruption, Episode 2: Green & Sustainability! This week our host, Larry Zeifman, is joined by our CEO guests, Keith Driver, CEO and Director of EarthRenew and Ashish Malik , CEO of Bee Vectoring Technologies (BVT). Together they discuss how to transition from an R&D based company to production-based company, the importance of innovation as it relates to sustainability, and why you need strong relationships with your business partners.
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Zeifmans is a full-service tax, accounting and consulting firm based in Toronto, Canada, ranked as one of Canada’s top 20 firms by revenue. Beyond the traditional offering, our services include business advisory, valuation, corporate finance, transaction services, corporate turnaround and insolvency, and estate and succession planning, supporting our 9,000+ clients through every step of the business life cycle. For more on our services relating directly to the cannabis and psychedelics industry, visit zeifmans.ca.
EarthRenew is driven to support a farm system that puts healthy soils and grower profitability back on the table. Using circular economic principles of upcycling waste materials into high value agronomic inputs, we are building an innovative platform of soil health products that offer growers an alternative to conventional fertilizers which leave the soil devoid of the nutrients and bacteria essential to plant life. EarthRenew benefits from multiple revenue streams including, primarily, the sale of regenerative fertilizers, but also enjoys secondary revenue from generating power and selling surplus electricity.
About Bee Vectoring Technologies (BVT):
BVT, an agriculture technology company, is a market disruptor with a significant global market opportunity in the $240 billion crop protection and fertilizer market. BVT has pioneered a natural precision agriculture system that replaces chemical pesticides and wasteful plant protection product spray applications by delivering biological pesticide alternatives to crops using commercially grown bees. BVT’s award-winning technology, precision vectoring, is completely harmless to bees and allows minute amounts of naturally-derived pesticides (called biologicals) to be delivered directly to blooms, providing improved crop protection and yield results than traditional chemical pesticides – and improving the health of the soil, the microbiome and the environment. Currently, BVT has over 65 granted patents, over 35 patents pending in all major agricultural countries worldwide, and has US EPA registration of its Vectorite™ with CR-7 (EPA Registration No. 90641-2) for sale as a registered biological fungicide for use on the labeled crops.
Episode 1: Plant Protein
On our very first episode of, Masters of Disruption, our host, Larry Zeifman is joined by this week's CEO guests, Connor Yuen, the CEO of Pontus Protein and David Gaucher and John Bonnell, the Co-Founders and Co-CEOs of Wholly Veggie. Together they discuss the future of the plant protein industry, what it takes to be an entrepreneur and define what it is to be a good leader.
Have questions or want to learn more? Contact us directly at info@zeifmans.ca.
Zeifmans is a full-service tax, accounting and consulting firm based in Toronto, Canada, ranked as one of Canada’s top 20 firms by revenue. Beyond the traditional offering, our services include business advisory, valuation, corporate finance, transaction services, corporate turnaround and insolvency, and estate and succession planning, supporting our 9,000+ clients through every step of the business life cycle. For more on our services relating directly to the cannabis and psychedelics industry, visit zeifmans.ca.
Pontus Protein Ltd. is a Vancouver, B.C. based company that grows water lentil protein for commercial use. Pontus is reinventing agriculture with their proprietary Closed Environment Vertical Aquaponic System (CEVAS) – the farming of the future. Pontus specializes in the indoor vertical farming of water lentils that use 95% less water than traditional agriculture and no pesticides or chemicals. Pontus is committed to solving the global food crisis by providing access to sustainable indoor biosecure pure plant based proteins. Pontus' water lentils can be harvested every 24 hours, exceed organic certification, and can be grown in any climate in a relatively small area. Our water lentil protein is filled with antioxidants, minerals, vitamins and all the amino acids, making a complete protein food source. Pontus aims to revolutionize the plant based sector as the entire sector is currently based on two main protein sources: soy and pea. Water lentil protein is far superior to pea and soy protein. It contains over 40% protein vs. 5-36% protein*, and Pontus aims to be the base protein for plant based food products, leading to the movement transitioning the world from meat based to plant based proteins.
At Wholly Veggie, we believe food sustainability is one of the key threats facing our planet. Our focus is to develop plant based food products that create better ways for people to feed themselves, and that leaves the least amount of ecological harm as possible, while promoting health and positive social impact.
Introducing: Masters of Distruption
Welcome to Zeifmans Presents: Masters of Distruption – Dialogues with emerging industry entrepreneurs. Over the next 6 weeks, we will be sitting down with CEO’s in Emerging Industry fields - plant protein, green + sustainability, esports, psychedelics, cannabis, and blockchain and crypto - to discuss their entrepreneurship journeys and the issues they face as chief executives in their respective industries. We will be diving into personal stories, advice on how to be successful, and their respective perspectives on the future of their chosen emerging industry.
Some of our notable guests include: Doug Drysdale, CEO of Cybin, John Bonnell and David Gaucher, Co-CEO’s of Wholly Veggie, Jonathan Wiesblatt, CEO of Liquid Meta, Ashish Malik, CEO of Vee Bee Vectoring Technologies International, and Bradley Moore, CEO of Global Cannabis Applications Corp.
About Zeifmans:
Zeifmans is a full-service tax, accounting and consulting firm based in Toronto, Canada, ranked as one of Canada’s top 20 firms by revenue. Beyond the traditional offering, our services include business advisory, valuation, corporate finance, transaction services, corporate turnaround and insolvency, and estate and succession planning, supporting our 9,000+ clients through every step of the business life cycle.
Since 1959, Zeifmans has been developing innovative solutions driven by creative insight. Nearly 60 years later, our diverse local team has grown to over 150 team members, while our membership with Nexia International – one of the world’s top ten accounting and consulting networks – provides access to a global team of 3,400+ partners spanning more than 120 countries. Over 4,000 of our clients are private companies – many having been with us for more than a generation; proof that our connection with our clients remains a trusted long-term relationship based on the common goal of business growth and success. To learn more about our services relating directly to the cannabis and psychedelics industry, visit zeifmans.ca.