Engager

Alternative Wellness Lifestyle Brand & Product Accelerator Lab
We build new plant medicine and wellness brands, products and businesses, and grow existing ones.

We are a global team of battle-tested entrepreneurs, makers and marketers accelerating growth of brands in the alternative health and wellness category.  

We spot emerging trends, identify new growth opportunities, bring new solutions to market, and modernize the way that alternative wellness businesses engage with consumers via entertainment, experiential marketing, lifestyle marketing and emerging technologies.

The team has deep expertise in taking brands from pre-seed or seed stage to series B and beyond.  Deep experience with lifestyle marketing in music, gaming, podcasting, film, TV, cannabis, beverage and technology. 

Team has collectively accomplished the following:

$1BN + in Revenues Generated
60+ Brands Built
$100 million+ Funds Raised

Engager Global is a brand innovation and venture-building studio that helps alternative wellness companies accelerate growth and innovation. We employ a team of entrepreneurs, creators, and marketers to work alongside clients in spotting emerging trends, identifying new growth opportunities, and bringing new solutions to market. Our approach optimizes the agility of startups by facilitating rapid innovation and leveraging influencers of all levels to grow brand equity as well as revenues on a global basis.

Optimized For the Following Business Categories:

- Nootropics
- Adaptogens
- Functional Mushrooms
- Kratom
- Kanna
- Psychedelics
- Cannabis
- Alternative Wellness Therapies
- Alternative Wellness Retreats
- Biohacking products and services

Founder and Chief Revenue Officer

PLANT Entrepreneurial Institute

- Building a global online education platform specializing in courses for cannabis, psychedelic, and plant medicine businesses.
- Leading a team of experienced operators to create and deliver high-quality courses taught by industry professionals with real-world experience.
- Successfully launched the flagship course, the Cannabis Brand Accelerator, as part of the Cannapreneur Pocket MBA program, catering to the growing demand in the cannabis industry.
- In collaboration with Grupo Education in Puebla, Mexico, to ensure smooth functioning and growth of the platform.

Founder

Heavy Brands

- Owning and operating the Heavy Grass brand: cannabis flower products in California.
- Contribute to the development of innovative cannabis products, including small-batch, top-shelf cannabis and extract-infused prerolls, that cater to the rebellious and counterculture-loving metal community.

Board Member/Co-Founder

Bee-Nails, LLC

Board Of Advisors

Engager Brands

Engager Brands builds, owns and operates a portfolio of authentic cannabis brands targeting underserved demographics. We create, market and license our brands starting in California and then taking them throughout the world.

Chief Executive Officer and Founder

PROHBTD Media

PRØHBTD Media was a global consumer goods and marketing company with a mission to lead cannabis from the black market to the supermarket. As PRØHBTD we built the largest catalog of broadcast quality cannabis video content, the largest cannabis multi-platform network and leading cannabis agency with 60+ brand projects. 

Our portfolio included lifestyle and wellness brands across hemp, CBD and THC including flagship icon PRØHBTD, Hempathy, Ceeby Dee’s, Hot Nife, The Patch Co., and Heavy Grass. We also counted exclusive partnerships in our arsenal including Global Licensing Expo, Advertising Week, Beanstalk Licensing Agency, and Postmedia.

www.prohbtdmedia.com

Chief Business Officer, COO and Founder

Soteria Intelligence

Soteria Intelligence is a social media threat assessment company that provides monitoring and consulting services to individuals and organizations around the world.

Advisor

Engager Digital

Engager Digital helps content providers grow and retain their audiences.  They also provide business development, sales strategy and digital marketing services.  A primary focus is on growing the overall businesses of media companies.  Engager also serves as a new business incubator.  

Client services include:

* Online video, influencer marketing and shopper engagement programs.
* Digital media strategy/business development 
* Online/mobile/social solutions for brands, agencies, and digital businesses.
* Application and site development strategy


Clients & Partners (Past and Present): Audible, St Martins Press, Simon & Schuster, Oyster, Mediakix, Prodege, Cakeworks, Juntobox Films, Creative Money Works, Scratch Music Group, Songbird, Lodgenet, I VOTE, Platinum Edge, Screenpush, Stauffer.

Creative Money Works

Creative Money Works' mission is to help meet the needs of low income children, work to create a better financial future for them and conduct research to improve financial literacy content for children.

Board of Advisors

Dather

Dather is a social media platform for event sponsors and organizers. Dather is now part of broader offering called Event Hub which offers white labeled end-to-end digital services and technology solutions for events.  The suite of solutions raise awareness pre event, engages audiences during the event, and provides a post event activation platform along with analytics.  

Dather also represents other cutting edge digital media services and technologies including a turnkey paid media solution that provides access to a highly engaged and targeted audience of 7.5M+ users on web and mobile.

Clients include: Samsung/AT&T Glee Live Tour, Jagermeister Music Tour, Remy Cointreau, John Lennon Educational Tour, Juntobox Films, Rihanna

Kieve is the co-founder of Dather and serves as the lead on all business development, sales, operations, product development and fundraising efforts.  He is also a Founder in the Founder Institute.

Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder

Do you want to unlock untapped revenue for your alernative wellness business or brand?
Are you generating over $1 million annually?
Do you want to 5-10x that over the next 3-5 years?
 
I run Engager, a growth accelerator program for alternative wellness businesses.  We partner with companies to scale their businesses exponentially and cost effectively.

Engager is optimized to help the following business categories: 

Nootropics
Adaptogens
Functional Mushrooms
Kratom
Kanna
Psychedelics
Cannabis
Alternative Wellness Therapies
Alternative Wellness Retreats
Biohacking products and services

After a collective 70+ years of building brands and businesses, our team at Engager is ready to leverage everything we've learned about scaling a company, its sales, and its funding.

We have collectively generated over $1 billion in revenues across cannabis, beverages, music, media, tech, and fashion.   We have built over 60 brands.

We can grow your current brand or partner with you to build you a new one.

Interested in learning more?

DM me or set up a Discovery Call via the link in my headline.

Kieve Huffman

420MEDIA Agency

420MEDIA is a media company on the front lines of recreating the perception of marijuana and hemp. We are a new brand of visionary pioneers bringing stunning, cinematic image quality and production value to your business and products. Our strong roots in digital media allow us to embark on creating powerful videos and photographs for commercial and social media platforms. From concept to creation and distribution our dedicated team utilizes cutting-edge visuals along with groundbreaking research to provide you and your business with digital content of the highest caliber.

Executive Producer

“Chronicles Of Women In Cannabis” is a series designed to share women stories with the world on CANNECTED TV with distribution across ROKU, Apple TV and IOS(globally) Android TV, Amazon Fire, Google Play devices, Sony, Panasonic, Philips, Sharp, and TCL smart TV’s 👊

cannected.tv has links and more info

🍎 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cannected-tv/id1561161211

Google Play 
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.maz.combo2993&hl=en&gl=US

Chronicles Of Women In Cannabis

CANNAVAL is the first conference created to educate and empower the people of the US Virgin Islands with expert knowledge and guidance as they enter into the newly legal medical cannabis market. 

The event’s keynote speaker will be Positive T.A. Nelson, a former seven term Senator who pushed for medical cannabis legislation and is the current Commissioner of Agriculture.

CANNAVAL Caribbean Cannabis Conference and Expo

CANNECTED TV

Cannected Shops - Pilot Launch April 2024.
In a strategic play that's poised to transform the retail landscape, this unique QVC-inspired streaming channel is tailored for the burgeoning plant-based and health and wellness markets. It's designed to showcase brands that are leading the charge in these sectors through innovative digital storefronts, engaging video content, and instantly accessible QR codes that recreate the energetic essence of live tradeshows.

With the support of thought leaders in celebrity branding and the health and wellness media space, the stream will reach audiences via a host of platforms, including Roku, Apple TV, iOS, Android TV, Google Play, and Smart TVs like Sony and Panasonic. This strategic distribution ensures that brands gain exceptional visibility and customer interaction during the pivotal holiday season.

Cannected is offering businesses the chance to engage with a market that has remained largely untapped, available around the clock. Its launch is a strategic move to thrust participating brands into the spotlight, offering them a continuous platform to amplify their reach and accelerate their success to new, unparalleled levels.

Chief Executive Officer

CANNECTED TV with distribution across ROKU, Apple TV and IOS(globally) Android TV, Amazon Fire, Google Play devices, Sony, Panasonic, Philips, Sharp, and TCL smart TV’s 👊 

Soon XBOX (globally)

cannected.tv has links and there's more info below

The Compound io 

TheCompound.io software-as-a-services (SaaS) platform joins together medical professionals and patients, academics and researchers, manufacturers and supply chain vendors, trade associations and advocacy groups, government officials and journalists, consumer product companies and cannabinoid consumers. TheCompond.io will provide its customers unprecedented abilities to research, teach, learn, develop products, and conduct commerce in a safe and secure environment. Members will have unique opportunities to interact with critical industry sectors, discover information, grow their professional networks, and influence the growth and maturation of the medical cannabinoid market.

Member Of The Board Of Advisors

Cannalogix Foundation

THE CANNALOGIX FOUNDATION 
As a development of various Board Members and Directors of the Stormy Ray Foundation, many of us have been at the epicenter of the medical marijuana movement in Oregon since the 1990�s with the original passing of Measure 87 and the creation of the Oregon Medical Marijuana Act or OMMA which allowed the creation of the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program which has effectively allowed patients to medicate safely since its implementation. Through the years our group has sponsored and petitioned legislature for many changes and improvements of the OMMA/OMMP system and we have been very successful in our program compared to the rest of the states within our country that have adopted Medical Marijuana laws....

But our program is still broken... Riddled with corruption and profiteering a large number of patients are still not getting access to their medicine and are subsequently still suffering from pains, ailments and diseases that could be regulated and possibly even cured if they just had access to sustainable and conscientiously grown medications at affordable costs. At Cannalogix we believe the patient deserves the very best medications and guarantee that our medications come from people who are more concerned with the health and wellness of the patient than the size of their contribution to finances.

Board Member

Gubi Productions

freelance

Filmmaker

Buzz Table

According to the founders of BuzzTable, life is all about connections. But, the past decade has completely re-imagined how humans interact and now we can connect with each other faster and easier than ever. We've entered the age of now, not seconds from now. And one device is at the center of it all... the mobile phone. 

BuzzTable has created a simple Customer Relationship Management platform that allows restaurants to maintain a real-time, mobile connection with their guests.  

We believe that restaurants should stop spending 80-90% of their focus and marketing budgets acquiring new customers. Instead, they should invest money where it matters and where returns are 7-10x greater... in existing customers. There's nothing wrong with making new friends, just don't forget about the old.

Consultant

Kerri Accardi launched her transformative journey into the cannabis industry driven by a profound personal loss, sparking a mission to educate the world about the medicinal benefits of cannabis. Starting in December 2013, she set out to dismantle the stigma surrounding cannabis access.

She founded 420MEDIA in 2014, quickly transforming it from a simple video production company into a dynamic content creation and marketing powerhouse. Her pioneering approach has significantly reshaped public perceptions, presenting cannabis as a crucial medicinal resource through compelling narratives and powerful media outreach.

Her groundbreaking initiatives include producing the first legal cannabis tour in Seattle in 2014 and launching high-impact commercials on major networks like History, Bravo, and Discovery. A landmark achievement occurred in 2019 when 420MEDIA aired a commercial during the Super Bowl.

In 2021, Accardi expanded her influence with the launch of Cannected TV, a pioneering streaming TV service that delivers a rich blend of educational and entertaining cannabis content. Cannected TV streams on a broad array of platforms including ROKU, Apple TV, Amazon Fire, and the smart TVs of major electronics giants like Sony, Panasonic, Sharp, and TCL. This expansion into mainstream smart TV platforms marks a significant stride toward integrating cannabis into widely accessible media channels.

Looking ahead to 2024, Accardi is set to revolutionize cannabis engagement again with Cannected TV's new digital marketplace, envisioned as a "QVC for THC." This platform will be a hub for discovering plant-based products and services, blending the thrill of discovery with the convenience of streaming.

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