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Meet the Experts

Liana Gillooly

Founder/Development Officer at North Star / MAPScal Scientist Author Psychedelic Institute

Liana Sananda Gillooly

Liana Sananda Gillooly is a lifelong advocate for social and environmental justice, drug policy reform, and ending war. Before joining MAPS, Liana worked as outreach manager for the Arcview Group, a prominent cannabis investment and market research firm, where she helped grow the accredited investor network, advocated for legalization, and supported the work of Marijuana Policy Project.

She has worked in event, festival, and film production, as well as artist representation, art curation, and art creation. She owned a visionary art gallery in Venice Beach, California, called Sananda Gallery. She has produced fundraisers, parties, and art happenings for special events and festivals, including High Times Cannabis Cups, MAPS conferences, Envision Festival, Serenity Festival, and Fractal Planet at Burning Man.

Liana has been a featured speaker at numerous events, lobbied Congress, lectured MBA students, and given a TedX talk. She is a meditator and trained death midwife.

David Nikzad

Founder Orthogonal Thinker Inc/EI.Ventures

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David Nikzad

David Nikzad is the original founder of Reinmkr Satsang and original founder of Orthogonal Thinker Inc. He was the first checks in companies such as Betterment, Vidyard, InstantCab Ridecell, Wefunder, June Software TaptoLearn, Talkable, Aisle50, TutorSpree, OrangeFund2, Quartzy, Ridejoy, GazeHawk, RealCrowd, Meadow, ConfidentCannabis, FOBO Yardsale, BlockRx, SericaPay, Solti, AdStage and more.

He has personally incubated companies through Orthogonal SuryaSpa, KitchenNation, MauiRaw, Randy’s Remedy, EI.Ventures and many more.

Orthogonal holds secondary shares in anchor companies such as Airbnb, Republic, Equipment Share, and more.

Over the last 25 years David started out in the techno scene marketing parties that brought in tens of thousands of people to famous nightclubs such as Fifth Column, The Vault, Z Club, Trax, Edge, Buzz and Fever in DC. He was one of the original investors in the DC club scene to bring famous DJs together from all over the world before trance hit the mainstream. Over the past 2.5 decades he has invested in subsidiaries that include RealEstate, Nightlife and Technology. He left the mainland over a decade ago to work on a health and wellness retreat center in Maui called Lumeria, working there on his own emotional intelligence.

Over this last decade, David has become hyper-focused on his two children who live on Hawaii, and on his current role as Executive Chairman of Orthogonal Thinker Inc, which encompasses all of David’s family’s holdings.

Stacey Wallin

Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Numinus Wellness Inc

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Stacey Wallin

Stacey Wallin is Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Numinus Wellness Inc, a Canadian company creating an ecosystem of health solutions centered around developing and supporting the safe, evidence-based, accessible use of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy.

Previously, Stacey was the Founder and CEO of LifeBooster, a tech startup now helping Fortune 100 clients detect and proactively respond to workplace injury risks. She is also the former Director of Venture Programs at the BC Tech Association, leading a team developing accelerators for scale companies in BC, with a mandate of solving the largest ecosystem and policy-related challenges facing these companies.

Passionate about supporting startups and fostering growth, Stacey is also the Founder and Executive Director of the non-profit Canadian Accelerator Incubator Network (CAIN), driving strategic initiatives with 120+ accelerator and incubators organizations and the Canadian government.

Dick Simon

Chairman, Advisory Council Center for the Neuroscience of Psychedelics, Massachusetts General Hospital

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Dick Simon

Dick Simon is an entrepreneur, social enterprise philanthropist, and catalyst for change. He works with organizations pursuing FDA and European Medical Association clinical trials for mental health (PTSD, depression) treatments using psychedelic medicines. He aims to shift public perspective and reduce stigmatization related to the use of these medicines and is also supporting researchers studying psychedelic treatments for a wide range of indications. Dick serves as Chairman of the Advisory Council for the Center for the Neuroscience of Psychedelics at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is a founder of the Boston Psychedelic Research Group and the YPO Psychedelic Medicines for Mental Health Group, and he works closely with organizations including MAPS, the California Institute for Integral Studies, and the Psychedelic Science Funders Collaborative.

Before this work, he co-founded the Peace Action Network (PAN) of YPO, a network of over 29,000 international CEOs. PAN addresses conflict resolution on local and global levels. He launched the kNOw THEM Initiative to raise awareness about the most dangerous four-letter word in the English language, THEM.

Guy Lieberman, Moderator

Director of Nahana Foundation

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Guy Lieberman Moderator

As a social entrepreneur and activist, Guy has crafted his enterprises through a unique form of artistry, including campaigns, film-making, journalism, curated events, delegations and projects in the built environment, including being featured as one of CNN’s 10 Ideas to Change the World. Over the years, Guy has worked with several Nobel Peace Laureates, most notably with HH the Dalai Lama, and facilitated both meetings between the Tibetan leader and Nelson Mandela.

His recent article, titled “Psychedelics and the New Future,” provides a context and background to his and his family’s experience in the field. You can learn more about Guy through his website, www.guylieberman.com