#86 Investor Salon: Marik Hazan + Ellyn Ito + Avani Kanubaddi - 62 Min

This vibrant panel discussion held in the spring of 2022 focused on medical psychedelics and the trends, opportunities and challenges facing the industry. Marik Hazan is the Founding Partner of Tabula Rasa Ventures, the premiere accelerator fund for early stage psychedelic companies and is the CEO of Energia Holdings Inc., an organization building the future of health by turning healthcare’s blindspots into preventative care solutions. He is an engineer, advocate, entrepreneur, and investor who has worked across “counter culture” industries. He founded the first incubator focused on psychedelic startups and runs the world’s largest psychedelics conference, Psyched. ----- Ellyn Ito is the cofounder and Chief Executive Officer of Within Health/Innerstill. She has over 25 years of experience with disruptive technologies, including electroceutical medical devices. Her previous experience includes the scaling of  business-to-business and direct-to-consumer operations in technology,  healthcare,  and service operations.  Ellyn serves on the Board of Redeemer Health Systems and is a member of the Gail Birenbaum’s Women’s Leadership Council at Rider University. ----- Avani Kanubaddi is President and COO of Enveric Biosciences. As the former CEO of Welmedix, he led brand sale to a PE back healthcare company in 2019. He was a former Director at BMS/ConvaTec and Wyeth/Pfizer in Medical Device and Consumer Health segments.