Team & Cast
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Executive Producer & CEO
Ed Leclere
Ed Leclere possesses a comprehensive background in event production, hospitality, and licensing, having collaborated with esteemed organizations, including Wolfgang Puck Worldwide. His expertise extends to orchestrating major events, concerts, and festivals throughout the United States and Mexico. He has showcased an array of performing artists such as Charlie Daniels, Cheap Trick, Jackyl, The Guess Who, Puddle of Mudd, Social Distortion, Gin Blossoms, Bret Michaels, George Thorogood, and War, among others.
Creative Director & Exec. Producer
David McKillop
David Mckillop is an accomplished media executive with extensive experience across a spectrum of high-level corporate functions, encompassing creative direction, marketing strategy, and business development initiatives. His multifaceted expertise has consistently driven organizational growth and innovation in the media landscape.
Cast and Characters
Rick Batenburg III./the clear
The youngest in a long line of entrepreneurs, Rick is spearheading VC initiatives for the family business, looking at alternative capitals – cannabis. Smart, polished and a tad cocky, with an endless supply of energy that’s always ready for the next adventure. He’s polished, hungry for success, and always networking in search of big opportunities. Originally investing in The Clear, a THC vape company, Rick is expanding the family brand portfolio to include a range of cultivars and cannabis related retail products. When he isn’t working the room, Rick is overseeing the semi-professional hockey team he owns.
Richard “Rich” Batenburg JR./THE clear
Rick’s father and his main mentor in the family business. Rich, is now chairman of The Clear, but as an entrepreneur in his own right he’s created and managed a wide scope of businesses. From equity firms to infomercials, Rich has hustled all the way to his current success. Rich’s depth of experience and sense of calm provides the antidote to his son’s frenetic pace and renegade spirit.
Jon Piasecki/Wiseacre Farm
AKA “Cyclops”, an Ivy League educated forest scientist and award winning landscape designer in the Berkshires, Jon turned to growing some of the most mind-blowingly successful sungrown cannabis in the industry. With patented ways to increase yield and a seriously down-to-earth demeanor, Jon’s lives by the motto “Everything by hand – every plant is only touched by the delicate hands of interesting people who are always in a good mood.” Jon takes the idea of terroir to entirely new levels.
Meg Sanders & Erik Williams/Canna Provisions
Meg, as one of the few female CEOs in the industry, had an integral role in changing the legal landscape of Colorado cannabis regulations before turning her attention to opening the hip and inviting CannaProvisions dispensaries and branded grows in Western Massachusetts. Erik draws on experience in public affairs and as a former executive with NORML to oversee growing operations and business expansion. Together as partners in life, as well as business, they also consult for cannabis startups and dedicate time to a hopeful vision for an industry grounded in social equity
Chem Dog
AKA, Greg Krzanowski or the “Father of Kind Bud”. A true legend, infamous for his 30yr old eponymous strain ChemDog. Talking to him is like listening to a sommelier, one whiff and he’ll tell you exactly what a bud is all about. Once he had it all, then the government took everything away. When regulations changed, Meg and Eric successfully brought him out from the underground and legally installed him as their head of cultivation. Here he produces ChemDog for his loyal fans while developing new strains of high quality cannabis.
Brendan and Kevin McKernan/Medicinal Genomics
As the founders and leaders of Medicinal Genomics, this team of brothers took part in the Human Genome Project before turning their focus to helping develop and sequence cannabis strains to help cancer patients and children suffering from rare forms of untreatable epilepsy. Their company is furthering the science of cannabis education and development through testing and genetic sequencing. They are known in the industry as the knowledge innovators for growers today.
Moe Asnani & Chip Boyden/ILAVA
Founders and business partners in a number of successful Arizona dispensaries and grow houses. They’re also the creators of iLava, a popular family of cannabis products that includes the groundbreaking iLava Touch, a topical pain and stress relief gel that’s quickly garnered a cult following. Inspired by a deeply personal family story, Moe holds the belief in cannabis as a vehicle to help people feel better. Sharing a similar conviction, Chip is also energized by the big picture idea of being in the early stages of an industry where new changes are happening quickly.
Sjoerd Broeks (Also known as Genefinder OG)/Haze valley Nursery
AKA “Johnny Appleseed” goes way back to working in the Netherlands’ early seed banks. Sjoerd is the guy you want to talk to about all things seeds. He knows the history of all the strains, and how they’ve changed over the years – from the hidden seed stashes of Humboldt County growers to the current proliferation of high THC cannabis.
John Worton & Stuart Marsh/Cannim
Started by English-born and Jamaican raised brothers John, William, Gregory, and James Worton, Cannim is quickly establishing itself as a leader in the medical cannabis market. Headquartered in Sydney, with farms in Australia, Canada and Jamaica, and manufacturing in Germany and Portugal, Cannim is seizing opportunity and experiencing fast growth internationally. With a carefully chosen and close-knit team in Sydney that operates like a family unit, and blood ties overseeing other locations, the Worton brothers, along with their CCO Marsh, are setting the stage for a new style
business model on a scale no one has seen before in the industry.
Nate Lipton/Growers House
Starting out Grower’s House as a father/son business, it’s now run exclusively by son Nate, Both a brick-and-mortar location and online one-stop-shopping for all the growing tools anyone could ever need. Also the home of the CannaCribs (yes, exactly what you think it is) video series and podcast.
Johnny Hamala/GreenFingaz Farmz
A character in his own right, having had a wildly unconventional path that took him from touring musician, to flower industry, to cannabis, Johnny and his perennially green painted fingernails, now oversees a state-of-the-art greenhouse operation in Northern California.
Kelley Moss
An OG in the world of cannabis. With decades in the business Kelly has walked on both sides of the law. As the legal regula- tions change, his big concern is how the pioneers are getting replaced by the “suits”, leaving those who paved the way out in the dust.
Yuri Downing/Angel Shark
One of the first to hold the winning ticket of a license to grow in Arizona. Yuri is the founder of Angel Shark, a consultancy that invests in cannabis companies at all stages of their growth, from strategic planning to tactical execution. Proficient in a wide range of skills, Yuri also authored a well-received guide for women and BIPOC in the cannabis industry.
Mike Kent/RI Hemp
As a real estate developer and local businessman in Rhode Island, Mike is applying his experience toward growing a company that’s become New England’s largest processor and producer of high-grade hemp and CBD products. It’s a mission he’s devoted to and a future he sees as raising the bar in a market where quality is often hard to discern for the consumer.
Brian Carney/Green N Go
In what was originally a car wash, Brian built out a successful dispensary known for having some of the most knowledgeable budtenders and friendly staff around. Dedicated to providing customers with the best experience possible, plans are now in the works for taking that a step further to create the first drive-thru dispensary in Massachusetts.
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