Mark Burton
Pop-Daze^® Visionary

Pop-Daze^® was Mark’s concept.  His background includes being an attorney and a partner at California Capital Partners, a merchant banker.  Besides guiding Pop-Daze towards the future, he currently is in the Berklee Master of Arts in Music Business program.  Mark is a passionate lover of all genres of music from the 20’s through today, but he has a particular love of music from the second half of the 20^th-Century.  Mark plays the drums, albeit fairly poorly.

John Nelson
Partner & Legal Advisor

John has a long and storied career as a venture capitalist, a college professor, and a merchant banker.  He currently is the managing partner of California Capital Partners and in addition to his overseeing the financial aspects of Pop-Daze^®, he is focusing a great deal of his time on finding and financing sustainable solutions in the housing and commercial building sectors, particularly in Latin America.  John is a multi-instrumentalist, playing trumpet, guitar, bass, and keyboards.

Tami Danielson
Social Media Coordinator/Blog Writer

Tami is a long time professional writer and social media guru. Starting in the ‘80s, Tami wrote for the Tampa Tribune, NASCAR®, and numerous auto race tracks.  Her favorite interview for a periodical was that of Shaquille O’Neal when he was picked up by the Orlando Magic. Tami has overseen social media for a wide variety of bands over the past decade and loves all forms of music but has a particular affection for 80’s rock and power rock.  Tami helps coordinate Pop-Daze’s® social media, sponsorship/advertising and generally keeps the partners in line. She also drafts a substantial portion of the company’s blogs.

Owen Hendricks
Advisor

Daughter of the incomparable Mama Cass of the Mamas and Papas, Owen knows the music world like few others. She currently oversees not only her mother’s estate interests in music but also fronts representation for the Mamas and Papas’ band.

Donald Jacobs
Advisor

Donald has more than 40 years of business experience in wide variety of areas from finance to marketing and in industries as varied as banking and medical devices.  Donald has particular knack for helping start-ups develop into successful enterprises.

Glenn Kassel
Cannabis and Sponsorship Development Manager

Glenn has a long history as a top notch business executive in multiple industries including health supplements, real estate, technology and cannabis and has overseen everything from operations to world-wide sales. Glenn currently is a partner in a cartridge filling company focused on cannabis related products.  Glenn will oversee Pop-Dazes® relationships with the cannabis industry and develop relationships with advertisers and sponsors.  As most team members, he loves music, in particular classic rock and Mo-Town and played the piano in his younger years.

Gail Kantor
Advisor

Gail began her career as a singer/song writer and was a 2016 Grammy nominee for her song with Patrick Williams, “52^nd and Broadway.”  She currently serves as Co-Founder and Interim CEO of eJamming Inc.  She also headed up Kantor Productions where she produced national and regional advertising jingles, dozens of high profile star-studded fund-raising concerts, and later supervised international music production for DreamWorks Animation.

Andy Luckey
Advisor

Son of the world renown animator (Pixar and Disney), Bud Luckey, Andy is player in the entertainment field himself, having produced the animated series “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” directed and produced games for Virgin Interactive game company and later was President and COO of Pure Interactive Entertainment.

Blue QuisQuis and Lori Yaphe
Advisors

Blue and his partner, Lori Yaphe, are top consultants and service providers in the Cannabis industry.  Blue used to be one of the primary compliance experts in gaming for the Native American Tribes and currently is the top compliance expert to the Native American tribes’ involvement in Cannabis.