Claudia Della Mora is an Investment Banking professional with financial advisory and M&A experience primarily in cannabis, with additional experience in oil & gas, mining, gaming & lodging, consumer products, and tech, with transactions ranging in size from $10 million to $6 billion. Ms. Della Mora is the co-founder of BLC, a financial advisory and investment firm based in Los Angeles with satellite offices in Houston, New York, London, Hong Kong, and Melbourne. During her tenure at BLC, she successfully invested, structured, and collaborated with over 30 cannabis companies across every vertical for business development, capital raises, and M&A transactions across the US, Canada, South America, Asia, and Australia. She has also evaluated cannabis companies through detailed assessments of company operations and necessary permits and licenses for legal and ethical operations to ensure compliance with state and federal regulations, and spoken at various well-renowned conferences including Benzinga, Latino Investment Summit, International Cannabis Business Conference (ICBC), and Real Cannabis Entrepreneur. Through these efforts she has developed a network of over 10,000 private equity and investment funds and trained 15 classes of analysts to be successful in their financial services careers.