Naturally Bay Area EDUCATION SERIES: Market Trends and Legal Developments for CBD Products

NETWORKING NIGHTS - Join us for an engaging and candid dialogue with local and national experts who have been actively monitoring the ever-changing CBD/THC landscape, and advising natural product retailers, distributors, and manufacturers on how to best navigate these tumultuous waters!

Tonight's program...

THE NEXT GREEN WAVE
Market Trends and Legal Developments for CBD Products

Panelist Profiles

KATIE DAS: Managing Partner, STAND ASSURED CONSULTING

Katie Das is a food industry veteran who has worked with startup to Fortune 500 companies developing CPG food products and implementing Food Safety Management Systems. As a Managing Partner of Stand Assured Consulting group, she helps food manufacturers and the cannabis edibles industry create safe, effective, and high-quality CBD/THC products.

Prior to Stand Assured, Katie worked for household brands such as Juicy Fruit, Philadelphia Cream Cheese and DoubleMint gum to start and then grew her own confectionary company, Das Foods. Katie later returned to her technical roots by becoming involved in a complex area of food safety for marquee brands like Starbucks, Accor Hotels, Target, and Walmart.

ASHISH R. TALATI: Partner, AMIN TALATI UPHADHYE

Ashish R. Talati leads Amin Talati & Upadhye’s FDA practice and is one of the industry’s foremost experts on FDA regulatory matters. He has gained an exceptional reputation for his successful results at the cutting edge of FDA and regulatory law, where he has responded nimbly to changes in the regulatory climate and the marketplace, guiding clients through some of our industries’ most complex issues. Ashish primarily counsels clients on matters of regulatory compliance, helping them anticipate and address regulatory issues in their day-to-day business operations and strategic planning. He also advocates on their behalf before the FDA, FTC, Customs, USDA, DEA, and other federal agencies, and in court.

Considered a creative and strategic partner by his clients, Ashish works with companies all over the globe and is a trusted advisor at every step of the product life cycle, including product formulation, safety and efficacy studies, product launch, and ongoing marketing and sales.

JACOB FREEPONS: CEO & Founder, LUMEN REGENERATIVE HEMP

Jacob Freepons is the CEO and Founder of Lumen, a farm-to-bottle producer of functional hemp elixirs which balance and revitalize the body and mind. As a third generation farmer with a depth of experience in both the cannabis and organic farming industries, he is bringing awareness to the many health challenges we face guided by the ethos: food is medicine. Together with the Lumen team, he is using hemp as the economic and social catalyst to inspire and implement real solutions to the systemic health and environmental challenges we all face.

Awaken your spirit, illuminate the world. @DrinkLumen

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  Katie Das

  STAND ASSURED CONSULTING

  Managing Partner

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  Ashish Talati

  AMIN TALATI UPHADHYE

  Partner