Each year, Inc. Magazine compiles a list of “30 Under 30”, featuring CEOs who are “taking on the planet’s biggest challenges, one elegantly creative solution at a time.” This year, a cannabis company founder made the cut from a group that included 540 applications. Aeron Sullivan, who serves as the Chairman of Tradiv, was named to the list, which included a profile of the California-based company and a three minute video of Sullivan describing his background and the firm’s mission.
Tradiv, which aims to make wholesale cannabis trade efficient, easy, and secure, was in the first class at cannabis industry accelerator CanopyBoulder in 2015 and has raised over $1mm. Its online marketplace connects growers, processors and retailers in Colorado, but it will soon expand into Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Arizona, and regulated municipalities in California.
Based in Houston, Alan leverages his experience as founder of online community 420 Investor, the first and still largest due diligence platform focused on the publicly-traded stocks in the cannabis industry. With his extensive network in the cannabis community, Alan continues to find new ways to connect the industry and facilitate its sustainable growth. At New Cannabis Ventures, he is responsible for content development and strategic alliances. Before shifting his focus to the cannabis industry in early 2013, Alan, who began his career on Wall Street in 1986, worked as an independent research analyst following over two decades in research and portfolio management. A prolific writer, with over 650 articles published since 2007 at Seeking Alpha, where he has 70,000 followers, Alan is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and a frequent source to the media, including the NY Times, the Wall Street Journal, Fox Business, and Bloomberg TV. Contact Alan: Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn | Email
