Trends Within the Hemp Industry

<p>Join Mandi Kerr, Nathan Murphy and Jack Bouroudjian on Tuesday morning’s episode of Moving ^HEMP Forward. &nbsp;Nathan is the Division Director for Global Smart Commodity Group. Focusing keenly on providing price discovery tools along with track and trace mobile apps to the developing Hemp Fiber and eventually the carbon markets. Nathan is an entrepreneur with an extensive network and background in Hemp. He has numerous international and cross-cultural experiences all around the world for work, study, and play. In 2015 he co-founded a plant extraction company in Colorado that processed hops and hemp using ethanol and CO2 extractions, manufactured consumer goods, did a complete market analysis, and sold them to various retail or distribution outlets. After divesting of that company, he then did geotech work in the Rocky Mountains as an ACI certified QC and QA tester for Best Engineering, USA. After relocating back to Austin in 2020, Nathan found and joined an innovative tech startup serving the hemp industry with mobile applications to track and distribute supply chain data. Nathan graduated from Purdue University with Bachelor degrees in Management and Economics and holds Master degrees in Global Entrepreneurship and Innovation from EMLYON (France) and Purdue University. &nbsp;Jack is the Chief Economist, co-founder and director of the Universal Compute Exchange and the India Compute Interchange. Previously, he was CEO of Index Futures Group, SVP for Nikko Securities, Japan’s second largest brokerage house; SVP for Credit Agricole Futures and Commerzbank Futures, divisions of the 17th and 25th largest banks in the world respectively. &nbsp;He also served as President of Commerzbank Futures during the introduction of the Euro currency and oversaw the transition from D-mark to Euro. His responsibilities included planning, executing and supervising an effective marketing and sales program along with creating educational concepts designed to expand the European and Asian customer base along with integrating the ne