Madrid 2020 Speakers Archives - Cannabis Europa

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Dr Axel Gille
Dr. Axel Gille is Managing Director of Aurora Europe GmbH
joined the company 2018 and is responsible for the strategic d
Aurora as the clear market leader in all European countries wh
chemist by education, he spent more than 20 years in managem
advisory firms McKinsey and KMPG. There he advanced amb
operational goals and gained extensive international managem
Profiles
Carola Perez
Carola Pérez has a degree in Audiovisual Communication, a fi
of her professional life. She currently chairs the Spanish Medi
the founder of the association of therapeutic users dosemocion
those patients who use cannabis for medicinal purposes and w
cannabis.
Profiles
Piernicola Pedicini MEP

Piernicola Pedicini is an Italian politician and member of the E
is a member of the Committee on Committee on Economic an
member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health
co-sponsors of the Resolution on the use of cannabis for medi
Parliament in February 2019
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Parliament in February 2019.
Profiles
Cristina Romero de Alba

Cristina Romero de Alba is a Partner at LOYRA Abogados y
the international practice area of Loyra. Cristina regularly adv
licensing, M&A and general regulatory and compliance proce
including cannabis for medicinal, cosmetics and food use.
Profiles
José Antonio de la Puente

José Antonio de la Puente has been the CEO of Alcaliber S.A
independent supplier of active pharmaceutical ingredients for
industry. He is also the CEO of Linneo Health since October 2
for the activities of cultivation, production, manufacturing, im
cannabis and cannabis products for medical and scientific purp
the development of these activities.
Profiles
Dr Viola Brugnatelli
Viola Brugnatelli is the scientific director of Cannabiscienza, a
health care professionals on Medical Cannabis and the Endoca
a lecturer on Medical Cannabis at the University of Padua (Ita
Department of Neuroscience within the same institute. Since 2
IACM and ICRS, and was recently nominated IACM Italian A
advocates for patient-inspired clinical research and collaborate
In 2018 Brugnatelli co-founded a non-for-profit which lobbies
cannabis sphere.
Profiles
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Stephen Murphy
Stephen is Co-Founder and Managing Director of Prohibition
intelligence and insights into the European cannabis industry a
Europe’s premier medical cannabis conference. Stephen is als
a global leader in cannabis data, events and media, managing
known brands in the industry. With a background in technolog
finance, Stephen works with investors, entrepreneurs and regu
maximise the opportunities in this emerging frontier.
Profiles
Dr Bruno Maia
Bruno Maia is a Portuguese MD, specialist in Neurology and
the acute care of stroke patients and is responsible for the Neu
Laboratory at Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Central (terciary ho
Profiles
Paul Gurney
Paul Gurney is a Managing Director at BMO Capital Markets
coverage of large institutional equity clients in Europe and As
capital markets experience, researching companies, syndicatin
providing value-added advice to institutional and corporate cli
has been closely involved in the sector in Europe ever since, h
first ever NASDAQ listed cannabis company, and the third be
Paul spearheads BMO’s investment efforts for cannabis comp
introducing investors to sector heavyweights like Aphria, Aur
while actively developing the next generation of pre-IPO cann
Profiles
Guillermo Moreno Sanz

Dr. Moreno-Sanz has authored 25+ scientific articles and 3 pa
endocannabinoid system on pain perception. He gained broad
term fellowships in the Netherlands, Italy and the US, where h
at the University of California, Irvine, working with Prof. Dan
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new class of cannabinoid analgesics devoid of unwanted psyc
elaboration of the 2017 report “The Health Effects of Cannabi
Academies of Sciences. He then relocated to Spain and founde
owned company that provides scientific advise, research solut
services to regulators, disseminators and operators within the
Profiles
Dr Veronica Codesido Sampedro

Dr. Verónica Codesido is the Manager of Breeding and Cultiv
Research S.L, the first authorized Spanish company to work w
purposes. She is Doctor in Biology and have many years of ex
of species. She developed her postdoc on in vitro culture and m
and, nowadays, she is using all the learnt techniques to improv
breeding program of the company.
Profiles
Dr Janosch Kratz
Born in Germany and graduated in Medicine at Sant Pau Hosp
became a member of the Kalapa Clinic medical team in May 2
between Germany and Spain doing his specialist training in B
Cannabinoid therapies for Kalapa Clinic. He is responsible for
project, coordinates the training of health care professionals an
for medical cannabis use. He also offers consulting for the Eur
administration routes, quality control and product improvemen
Profiles
Salvador Garcia-Ruiz
Salvador Garcia-Ruiz is the Managing Director of Aurora Me
experience includes consulting, banking, education and, more
Profiles
Hannah Deacon
Hannah Deacon is the mother of Alfie Dingley, a six-year-old
When Hannah and Alfie moved to Holland for five months to
Alfie's condition improved dramatically, after which Hannah b
enter UK with cannabis oil to help her son in June 2018.
Profiles
Prof. José Javier Fernandez Ruiz

José Javier Fernández-Ruiz is Professor in the Department of
Biology, Faculty of Medicine at the Complutense University o
Principal Investigator of the “Cannabinoids and Neurological
Complutense University. The main activity of this group is the
cannabinoids in several neurological diseases, mainly neurode
design, synthesis and biological characterization of novel cann
profile, and to test their therapeutic efficacy at preclinical and
is also a member of the Editorial Board in the British Journal o
Profiles
Luis de Palacio
Luis de Palacio is a pharmacist and lawyer. He owns a pharma
President of FEFE, the Spanish Federation of Pharmacies. Mr
College of Pharmacists in Madrid, where he participates in rev
Commission.
Profiles
Beau Epperly
Beau Epperly advises startup-business clients in all aspects of
exit. He guides mature companies through complex securities
his team have led a variety of funding deals for startups and re
businesses
businesses.
Profiles
James O’Dowd
James established the European Alliance for Medicinal Canna
the central aim of promoting a sensible policy towards medici
establishing EAMC, in his capacity as Managing Director of T
firms on the regulatory landscape governing medicinal cannab
two of which were alike. Prior to joining TPA as a governmen
worked in the European Parliament as a political adviser and h
the European Conservatives and Reformists Group, Geoffrey
Profiles
José Luis Adrio

Dr. José Luis Adrio holds a Ph.D. in Pharmacy from the Unive
an Organization & Management of Technological Innovation
University of Madrid. He has been a postdoctoral researcher a
Cambridge, EE.UU and has developed his profesional activity
as Antibióticos de León, Puleva Biotech, Neuron Biopharma,
is the R&D director at ADL Biopharma.
Expert in the development of microbial biotechnology process
molecular biology techniques and metabolic engineering. He h
development programs of microbial strains as well as manage
Profiles
João Gama
João Gama is lawyer and policy advisor based in Lisbon. As a
based in Lisbon, and a senior advisor at the Albright Stonebrid
Washington D.C., he has been focusing on disruptive, innovat
the technology, transportation, and healthcare sectors, includin
the Law School of the Portuguese Catholic University, where
regulatory issues, having recently taught the first course on the
the country. João is a member of the Business Ethics Committ
Association and served as a member of the Portuguese Govern
Government and as a political advisor to the President.
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Manuel Guzmán
Manuel Guzmán is Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular B
University of Madrid and a member of the Royal National Ac
postdoctoral research focused on the study of lipid metabolism
the 90s a new line of research focused on the study of how can
with special emphasis on the molecular basis of such action in
neurodegeneration. This work has allowed characterizing new
cannabinoids, as well as suggesting possible pathophysiologic
Profiles
Jorge Fernandez
Dedicated to research for over 5 years, Jorge founded in 2006
2008, he founded Hermes Medical Engineering S.L., committ
devices for the administration of active principles in vapor me
MiniVAP, is sold all over the world for its therapeutic effects.
developing a medical vaporizer for Bedrocan BV, that will be
Profiles
Yona Cymerman
Yona Cymerman is an entrepreneur and co-founder of Can Inn
introducing innovation to the global cannabis market. The com
international innovation accelerator for cannabis related techn
names in cannabis and intersecting industries. Prior to her role
own marketing strategy firm held the role of VP Strategic Ma
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own marketing strategy firm, held the role of VP Strategic Ma
adjunct faculty member at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herz
Profiles
José Luis Martin

José Luis Martin is a Partner at the law firm Baker Tilly in Sp
experience in cross-border transactions, M&A, commercial co
personally handled the proceedings with the Spanish regulator
license in Spain.
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Luís Mendão
Luís Mendão concluded his studies in biochemistry in 1983 at
Curie, in Paris. Luís Mendão is currently the Chair of the Boa
Group, an NGO founded in 2001, focusing on prevention, earl
HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis while working with key population
Board of Directors of the Anti-Prohibitionist Association (SO
the Civil Society Forum on HIV/AIDS at the European Comm
European AIDS Treatment Group (EATG). Luís Mendão also
of the HIVPORTUGAL initiative. In the last ten years, he has
Regional Office of the World Health Organization Europe (W
Luís Mendão was diagnosed with HIV and HCV in 1996.
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Andrew Scott
Andrew is an experienced market commentator helping busine
investors at the right time with the right message. Andrew has
presenting with the likes of Thompson Reuters, Sky News and
stocks – analysing and reporting on global markets, derivative
Profiles
Daniel Mediavilla
Daniel Mediavilla holds a degree in Audiovisual Communicat
is one of the founders of Materia, the Science and Technology
the Science section of El País. Previously, Daniel worked as a
Research, Felipe Pétriz, in the Ministry of Science and Innova
for the newspapers ABC and Público.
Profiles
Hélène Moore
During her 20 years of experience in the life science industry,
research and development, partnering and commercialization
Bayer and beyond. Now based in Paris, Hélène is the managin
subsidiary of Aurora Europe. In her role, she is in charge of bu
Aurora’s role in the emerging French market, in particular thro
private institutions involved in health and market access. Hélè
from the University of Montreal and an executive MBA from
Montreal.
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Kingsley Wilson
Kingsley has worked in the financial and investment services
spending 10 years at two large investment banks as a research
analysis, portfolio construction, risk mitigation and institution
London based Chrystal Capital Partners, he has spent the past
raising over US$1.5bn of capital across over 100+ public and
four years he has led multiple cannabis investments raising ov
Chrystal’s network of global family offices for a number of di
Chrystal Capital is now launching a US$200m cannabis fund
invest across multiple verticals, geographies and stages in the
Profiles
Camilo Botero
Camilo is a Senior Investment Advisor for Procolombia, a gov
promoting Colombian non-traditional exports, international to
Colombia. Before Procolombia, Camilo was Chief Financial O
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Board of Directors at GreenFuel, a biofuels company in Spain
of International Commodity Trade Operations and Sustainabil

Lead Mutual Fund Trader.
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Ion Arocena
Ion Arocena is the Managing Director of ASEBIO, the Spanis
a specialist in the evaluation of projects, patents and spin-offs
teaches Biotechnology Start-ups Financing classes at CESIF (
Industria Farmacéutica).
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William Muecke
William Muecke is a co-founding managing member of Artem
oriented private equity platform 100% dedicated to investing i
worldwide basis. He is currently raising the third vehicle for A
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Piernicola Pedicini MEP

Cristina Romero de Alba

José Antonio de la Puente

Guillermo Moreno Sanz

Dr Veronica Codesido Sampedro

Prof. José Javier Fernandez Ruiz

José Luis Adrio

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José Luis Martin

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