Steven Gray is a business development consultant with over 15 years of leadership experience in Growth & Marketing.Most recently, Steven worked with software and publishing leaders in professional and retail trading to bridge the access gap for real-time data analysis and retail trading tools.As a digital growth expert in retail finance, Steven built paid-marketing funnels for some of the largest financial publishers in the US, helping manage over $200 million in ad spend collectively with over $12 billion in gross revenues. With the support of Google, Steven is currently developing complex organic Web optimization strategies that connect high purchase intent ‘cannabis-related’ searchers with local cannabis dispensaries. For the past 4 years, Steven has drastically increased revenues and operational efficiencies in his efforts to best optimize cannabis organizations’ marketing efforts.Steven is also architecting the first ‘niche’ cannabis consumer advertising network that enables cannabis dispensaries to get paid for promoting non-cannabis products to customers.