Cliff Giesenow

Cliff Giesenow is serial entrepreneur, visionary, key leader and pioneer in the South African Cannabis industry. He is the inventor of Leafolo™, Africa’s first Herbal Smoking Blend, is a co-founder of the first Cannabis retail stores and a large edibles brand in the region, and is a founding board member of the Cannabis Trade Association of Africa (CTAA). He was also instrumental in starting South Africa’s only Cannabis and Hemp investment fund called SilverLeaf Investments, where he was responsible for venture and opportunity scouting. Cliff has an MBA from the University of Cape Town, and attended UCLA in California on an international exchange scholarship where he focused on entrepreneurship. He is currently a strategic advisor to a handful of companies and a consultant on the global botanical and plant medicine stage via CanX Consulting.