Our team
Joshua Cuby | Founding Partner
Joshua is a co-founder & director of global CBD brands Re+CBD and Maven Hemp, currently distributed across 4 continents. Joshua has successfully utilised the unique product formulas and innovative product design to place these brands as leaders in the CBD consumer industry.
In 2015, Joshua founded the UK's leading health and wellness brand, Balance Media with his brother and sister. Joshua has a wealth of Sales and Marketing Experience working with some of the largest consumer brands in the world. Working with different celebrities from serial Entrepreneurs like Richard Branson, to Deepak Chopra, Balance work with some of the most influential minds to educate and guide our 2m+ audience every month.
Along with his team, they take great pride in aiding the growth and access of medical cannabis to the doctors and patients who can benefit from this natural medicine.
Three words to describe Joshua:
Innovative, Dedicated, Motivated.
Motto:
Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.
Gabriel Newman | Founding Partner
Gabriel is a Co-Founder & Director at NICE Partners. The latest chapter in his career is fuelled by first hand experiences utilising and understanding the countless benefits cannabis can achieve in combating a wide range of illnesses. Gabriel devoted his career building consumer CBD brands - Re+CBD & Maven Hemp. Where he still serves as an active board member at both companies. Most recently transitioning into the medical cannabis space working with licensed cultivators and building global chains of distribution into the European healthcare system.
Gabriel began his career supplying RFID asset tracking solutions across a wide range of industries - From Supply Chain & Logistics to Healthcare. He worked closely with R&D teams, developed and implemented a variety of bespoke solutions for leading retailer brands such as Tesco, Dixons Carphone and Ted Baker.
Three words to describe Gabriel:
Passionate, Calm and Collected.
Motto:
There is no lose, only win or learn.
Niall Ivers | Founding Partner
Niall was an early investor in cannabis stocks back in 2014. Niall is passionate about bringing medical cannabis to patients, clinical trials and research & development, and has a firm belief that the evolution of cannabis as a plant can bring about positive social change.
Niall started his career in real estate development and investment where for over 10 years he successfully put together complex global deals, including the acquisition and disposal of over £100 million worth of assets. Niall is also a trained yoga instructor and has been known to teach the Wim Hoff method.
Three words to describe Niall:
Focused, committed and composed.
Motto:
If you will it, it is no dream.
Benjy Cuby | Founding Partner
Benjy serves as a Business Development Consultant at Nice Partners. Benjy heads Business Development at Finsbury Trust, a leading provider of corporate, trust and fund services in Gibraltar. Benjy has over a decade experience in investment banking at UBS and Credit Suisse in New York, London and Tel Aviv. During his time in banking, Benjy specialised in originating and executing cross-border mergers & acquisitions and corporate finance assignments across a range of innovation industries.
Prior to this Benjy was a business consultant at Arthur Andersen’s Business Consulting Division in London where he completed financial and business consultancy engagements specialising in strategic planning, business development and valuation. Benjy received his BSc in Economics, specialising in Accounting & Finance, from the London School of Economics and his MBA specialising in Finance from Columbia Business School.
Three words to describe Benjy:
Passionate, Curious and Analytical.
Motto
Do. Or do not. There is no try.