
During Benzinga’s Cannabis Capital Conference, Bob Craig (CEO) and Joe Proto, board director of PayQwick, a financial services firm in cannabis, joined Javier Hasse, managing director of Benzinga Cannabis to talk about cannabis banking and financial solutions.
Proto, a serial entrepreneur in fin-tech with more than 30 years of experience in treasury management, who sold companies to Wells Fargo and MasterCard, got involved in cannabis through one of his best friends who explained to him the impact of cannabis legalization in society, particularly for those who are currently incarcerated on weed convictions.