Founders & Core Team
Carl
Founder, Scientist
Carl Martel is an independent scientist who has been researching in the field of industrial cannabis for over a decade. Formally trained as a geoarchaeologist with degrees in Interdisciplinary Science. Carl’s areas of research include plant carbons for energy storage, green extraction solutions and harvest/processing innovations. Carl currently consults with hemp companies in Canada, United States, Europe, Australia and South America. Co-Founder of American Harvest Inc, Co-Founder of Natural Design Research Institute in Australia, Founder of Advanced Hemp Technologies and Co-inventor of a grain disinfection system. Carl continues to explore and develop quality post-harvest management systems. His passion is developing processing solutions and products that encourage whole plant utilization including value added products from agricultural waste.
Erin
Founder, Researcher
Erin Lindley is an independent researcher and freelance writer specializing in industrial hemp. She brings a wealth of knowledge from a 20-year background as a business woman in the natural health industry in Canada. Her experience spans retail, clinic management and supplement manufacturing with expertise in formulation and product development.
Erin is a founding partner of the Advanced Botanical and Biomass Research Institute based in Ottawa, Canada. Current projects include industrial hemp introduction in Paraguay and for the First Nations in Canada.
Ms. Lindley writes a bi-monthly column in Weed World Magazine, UK, and is committed to educating people about all the different ways that humans can use this plant in order to benefit themselves and the planet.
Cheryl
Business Development Manager, Indigenous Relations
Cheryl Maurice is a member of the English River Denesuline Nation located in northwest Saskatchewan and fluent in her language.
She spent over 25 years as a team member in the Indigenous governance sector with Prince Albert Grand Council and Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations. Cheryl is an avid entrepreneur and is currently involved in creating sustainable businesses with the Indigenous sector with industrial hemp, medical cannabis, sustainable shelter and food sovereignty. Cheryl has always been driven to create opportunities and solutions for Indigenous groups and continuously strives to create economic independence. She credits the passion to her grandparents who helped raise her and taught her the importance of maintaining culture and traditions while living off the land.
She has also planned many events including national events focused on economic independence. Her passion to help her people continues as she works hard to bridge the gap. Her hard work and wide network of international clients has demonstrated that she carries a desire that will no doubt assist her people to create a quality of life that she has always dreamt of.
Speaking engagements
Demonstration of a Building Integrated Energy Storage (BIES) concept at the Canadian Hemp Trade Alliance (CHTA) conference held in Ottawa, Canada, in November 2017.
Presented at Australia’s first Industrial Hemp Conference, Geelong, Australia, in February 2018.
Second International Industrial Hemp conference in Vancouver, Canada, July 2018.
Eighth International Hemp Building Association held in Brussels, Belgium, October 2018.
Cannabis Policy Conference United Nations, Vienna, Austria,
December 2018.Hemp Business Day 2019, Irun, Spain, 2019.
Hemp Machines and Technologies, Naklo, Poland, 2019.
European Industrial Hemp Association, Cologne, Germany, 2019.
Hemp and CBD Expo, Birmingham, UK, 2019
Latin American and Caribbean Hemp Summit, Monte Video, Uruguay, 2019.
Second Industrial Hemp Conference, Freemantle, Australia, 2020.