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- Monica Pina
- February 28, 2024
- 6:01 am
Alison Repp and Jill Hodges, the founders of Joy Breeders, a Colorado-based organic body products company, who aim not just to nourish the skin but also to liberate the soul. Jill and Alison share their journey of launching a brand that embraces authenticity. They discuss the transformative power of their products, and their friendship.
- Press
- Monica Pina
- February 27, 2024
- 5:10 am
Monica Pina, the SVP of Investor Relations for Cliintel Capital, puts her 14-year-old daughter, in the hot seat to discuss teens' thoughts on underage drug use.
- Press Release
- Ryan Cadby
- September 8, 2022
- 5:46 pm
The people-focused venture capital firm’s founder and CIO earned recognition for his leadership, innovative contributions within his organization and community involvement DENVER — (Sept. 6, 2022) — Cliintel Capital, a venture capital firm providing funding and strategic consulting to growth-oriented companies in emerging vice sector markets, today announced that its founder and chief investment officer,…
- Press
- Ryan Cadby
- April 10, 2020
- 6:19 pm
Charlotte Figi suffered her first seizure when she was three months old and on Wednesday, her mother Paige Figi’s Facebook page updated a previous post to announce Charlotte “is seizure free forever.” The 13-year-old was hospitalized earlier this month with pneumonia, which caused her seizures to return and resulted in respiratory failure and cardiac arrest. She died peacefully in her mother’s arms on April 8, 2020.
- Press
- Ryan Cadby
- February 12, 2020
- 6:18 pm
Rick Batenburg III=RB: I am from Loveland, Colorado. The short answer on B-school is, yes, I graduated second in my class at Nichols College in Dudley, Massachusetts. However, my business education began decades earlier while going to the office with my father and learning negotiation and investment prowess through osmosis. I have two mentors: First and foremost, my father, Rich Batenburg Jr., and professionally I am mentored by Jim Jungjohann, a hedge fund manager.
- Press
- Ryan Cadby
- November 25, 2019
- 6:13 pm
This year was not especially auspicious to CEOs. As of October 2019, a record number of 172 CEOs from companies that included Nike, WeWork and Under Armor, left their posts. The legal cannabis industry was not immune from this CEO-apocalypse. Last summer, Canada’s Canopy Growth, the largest cannabis company in the world, ousted co-CEO Bruce Linton.
- Press
- Ryan Cadby
- September 24, 2019
- 6:15 pm
Rich Batenburg Jr.: My cannabis-focused investment company operates in several states, many of which we entered at original deployment of a legal marijuana program. While we hear about officials from new jurisdictions coming to Colorado to do research, as well as hiring regulatory consultants from Colorado, it seems like they listen and then try to reinvent the wheel.
- Press
- Ryan Cadby
- July 30, 2019
- 6:10 pm
SNNLive spoke with Rick Batenburg III, Chief Investment Officer of Clear Cannabis, Inc., a private company, at the Planet MicroCap Showcase 2019 in Las Vegas, NV.
- Press
- Ryan Cadby
- June 5, 2019
- 6:04 pm
Clear Cannabis Inc CIO Rick Batenburg III chats with Proactive Investors' Steve Darling during the 9th Annual LD Micro Invitational Investor Conference in Los Angeles, CA. The Denver based company has the goal of providing consistent standards across the cannabis product industry.