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

Beuhi

An at-home confectionary counter-top appliance where In under an hour, consumers can create reliable and consistent botanical-infused gummies, chocolates, or hard candies, from a device that is secure, discreet, and stylish; compatible with their preferred inputs, and customizable to desired dosage and quantity outputs.

Member of the Board of Advisors

GreenLists

GreenLists has reimagined the wholesale cannabis experience by creating an innovative auction-based marketplace. Greenlists first of it’s kind platform connects cultivators, manufacturers, and retailers to facilitate seamless transactions with just a click of a button. 

With no upfront cost or subscription fees, GreenLists provide a smooth and compliant platform to streamline buying and selling wholesale cannabis products.

The Cannabis Chamber of Commerce

Executive Director

710Sci®

Who They Are
710SCI is a subsidiary of Rocky Mountain Reagents and provides equipment, chemicals and consumable supplies to leading extraction, infusion and analytical laboratories serving the cannabis, hemp and mycology industries in North America.

What I Did
- Led the launch of the new 710SCI brand at MJUnpacked in NYC, including booth design, networking events, and collaborations.
- Oversaw content creation for sales and marketing tools.
- Managed design, development, and content creation for e-commerce website.
- Completed an extensive market and competitive analysis
- Overhauled and streamlined product descriptions, photos, and tech specs for over 3,000 individual product SKUs
- Elevated the 710SCI brand through various trade show appearances, networking opportunities, and introductions to my professional network.

Director of Business Development

Grasslands: A Journalism-Minded Agency

Who They Are
Grasslands is a Clio and EmJays award winning, journalism-minded marketing agency located in Denver, Colorado. Their team is fluent in the complex business languages of cannabis, tech and psychedelics, and they are committed to telling stories, elevating brands, and amplifying their value.

What I Did
- Led all new business development efforts which ultimately landed marquee marketing and public relations clients for the agency including AVD, MariMed, PuffCo, Nabis, Cheeba Chew, Blaze, Grodan, Dosatron, Escape Artists, Purple Lotus, NOXX and more.
- Nurtured, grew, and maintained a new business pipeline with a value of over $5m 
- Planned, organized and produced curated industry networking events in Colorado, Las Vegas, California and New York, including the marquee ‘Grasslands Party’ attended by 1,200 of the cannabis industry's VIPs.
- Created and improved upon sales and marketing materials including revamping the agency’s master proposal, master services agreement, and direct / digital marketing materials.
- Acted as a conduit between our clients and the various departments within the agency.
- Developed and managed strategic partnerships to grow business.
- Oversaw the implementation of a new CRM (SharpSpring/Constant Contact) and migration from old CRM (Pipedrive). Acted as Administrator for all CRM customization and development needs.
- Maintained incredibly deep relationships with our clients, media and industry connections through networking events and by being resourceful and continuously adding value.

Business Development Manager

Trellis

Who They Are
Trellis was a 'seed to sale' SaaS ERP platform built for the cannabis and hemp industries. The platform was tailored to licensed cultivators, manufacturing (infusion/extraction) labs, as well as distribution facilities.

What I Did
- Oversaw all aspects of both Sales and Marketing for the business
- Led new business efforts which landed marquee cannabis clients in the United States, Canada, Israel and Uruguay.
- Executed the company’s CRM migration from Pipedrive to Hubspot. 
- Acted as CRM Administrator and developed custom workflows, sales processes and reporting in order to provide better data insights to our business.
- Developed sales and marketing materials including sales sheets, blog content, website copy and social media posts.
- Maintained incredibly deep relationships with our clients, media and industry connections through networking events, speaking panels, being resourceful and continuously adding value.

Trellis was acquired by Akerna in April 2020.

Director of Sales and Marketing

Nug News

Nug News was a podcast providing all the cannabis industry news three times a week in twenty minute episodes.

Founder, Producer, Host

CUE Cannabis

Provided guidance on strategy, sales, marketing and compliance for a number of cannabis brands across legal markets.

Consultant // Market & Product Research

Green Bits, Inc.

Who They Are
Green Bits (Now Dutchie) simplifies the complexities of cannabis commerce, making regulated retail function like regular retail. By helping dispensaries optimize operations and maximize performance, Green Bits dispensary point of sale software elevates cannabis retail to a more efficient and enjoyable experience for you and your customers.

What I Did
- Led Business Development efforts in the emerging legal California cannabis market.
- Attended industry policy events to learn and advise on upcoming cannabis industry policy decisions in California.
- Met in person with over 300 cannabis retail owners to educate them on upcoming policy and compliance changes.
- Presented on panel events to industry leaders and government policy makers in order to help them make educated decisions for the future of California cannabis.
- Planned, produced and hosted networking events from San Diego to Mendocino in order to bring the cannabis industry leaders together.

TheBodaShow

TheBodaShow was a long-form (2 hours+) podcast covering the topics of the day in an irreverent manner.

Dynamic and gifted leader with a history of developing successful teams. Skilled in business development, marketing, brand development, communications, operations and compliance, I elevate organizations with my professionalism, experience, and empathy. Boasting a deep and influential network of leaders in the cannabis and hemp industries, I work to connect amazing brands, businesses and entrepreneurs in order to uncover economic opportunities for all.

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