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About us

CANNAVIGIA brings together a team of passionate founders, entrepreneurs and experts. Our platform connects individuals, who believe in the power of efficiency through data and digitalization to build superior supply chain transparency.

We built CANNAVIGIA as a platform for passionate people to collaborate, engage and communicate along the value chain of cannabis.

purpose

At CANNAVIGIA, we have one clear purpose: bringing transparency and traceability to the cannabis ecosystem for businesses and all their relevant stakeholders. We are building our software to allow global compliance across heterogenic legal and national bureaucratic environments. With this in mind, we composed the following mission and vision:

Mission

CANNAVIGIA digitizes standards, processes and regulations to make them secure, readily available and viable for a globally emerging industry. Our integrated management software solves the problem of transparency and traceability along the entire complex supply network of cannabis, delivering excellence and quality through technology and competence, in compliance with a heterogenic landscape.

Vision

We enable the cannabis supply network through data, vigilance and transparency - accessible, secure und understandable for all stakeholders. Vigilance beyond certification.

Our team

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Luc Richner

Chief Executive Officer

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A serial entrepreneur with 12+ years of experience in building and managing companies in various industries in Europe, the Middle East and South East Asia in the areas logistics, furniture, events, hospitality and tech. Luc has successfully finished the pioneer class of the Executive MBA in Digital Leadership at HWZ Zurich University of Applied Sciences in Business Administration.

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Philipp Hagenbach

Chief Operating Officer

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Philipp has 12+ years of experience in professional corporate management for health and infrastructure industries as well as consulting, development and market implementation. Having worked for four years in the pharma-sector at Roche and eight years in the infrastructure sector, he brings in a broad experience in management, business development, strategic structuring and sales & marketing activities.

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Elias Galantay

Chief Consulting Officer

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Elias is an experienced business consultant who has dedicated his focus to the cannabis sector several years ago. He was one of the first compliant growers to successfully apply for a cultivation license in Alaska and set up one of the larger operations in accordance with the US compliance standards. He has spent the last few years as a consultant, helping growers to set up and optimize their operations and guide them through the licensing and certification processes.

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Jan Kenel

Product Manager

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After successfully completing his Bachelor's and Master's degree in Pharmacy at the University of Basel and graduating as a pharmacist in 2016, Jan helped build up a successful cannabis start-up. With his background and more than three years of experience in production, process development and building an SME, he brings a wealth of experience to the table.

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Our advisors

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Marius Schulze

Start-up advisor

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Marius has more than 14 years of experience as an entrepreneur. He has a degree in business information technology and has invested in over 20 startups and helped them build their brands. He founded “MAKERS”, a Berlin-based company for company development. Between 2014 and 2017 several MAKERS startups were awarded with the “Fast 50 Rising Star” for Germany’s fastest growing startups. At the same time, Marius is an “angel investor”. In this role, he invested early in “ResearchGate”, the Facebook for scientists. Marius is a recipient of the Medal of Honor of the German Bundeswehr. His first engagement in the Cannabis space was being part of the advisory board of the software company Vigia AG / Cannavigia in 2019. Two years later he made his first investment by backing up the fast growing start-up and taking an active role as their CRO (Chief Revenue Officer) to guide them through the scale up process.

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Johann Zueblin

Compliance Advisor

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Johann Zueblin worked at the Swiss Development Agency and the World Bank in Africa and Latin America for 13 years. After this, he started working for Migros in the sustainable agriculture programme which he later also managed. Johann was responsible for agriculture, food safety and social compliance for the Migros Group’s supply chains. After his retirement in 2014 as Deputy Head Sustainability & Issue Management, Johann joined different board and advisory positions: He is a founding and board member of Global G.A.P, as well as Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI). He is also a board member of the Round Table for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) and an active member of the Advisory Council of Fair Trade USA.

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Daniel Haymann

Legal Advisor

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Daniel Haymann is an attorney with a leading Swiss law firm. His main area of practice is in corporate and commercial law with a focus on private equity and venture capital transactions. He established the first dedicated cannabis practice in Switzerland and advises investors, start-ups, and vertically integrated companies in the cannabis industry along the value chain. Prior to embarking on a second career as an attorney, Daniel gained over 12 years of experience in the trading, mining, energy, and related industries based out of Switzerland, Singapore, and Hong Kong working for multinational corporations as a trader and in managerial positions.

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Markus Hoffmann

Industry Advisor

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A lawyer by training, Markus has a background in the private equity sector and has been active in the medical cannabis industry for over five years. Most recently he was on the founding team as VP of business development for Jacana, a vertically integrated manufacturer of medical cannabis products. Previously, Markus led the only outside investment in the renowned Dutch manufacturer Bedrocan International by a group of family offices. Furthermore, Marcus is Co-Founder of Sky Labs Singapore.

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Our partners

GS1

Our partner for a standardized global transparent supply chain.

GEMPEX

The GMP expert

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