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This list showcases the top New York based CEO’ operating in the Agriculture space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Philip Silverman
Founder, CEO of Berkshire Kind
Philip Silverman is the Founder and CEO at Berkshire Kind.
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About Berkshire Kind: Berkshire Kind operates a marijuana cultivation farm intended to offer marijuana.
Matthew Wadiak
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Cooks Venture
Matthew Wadiak has been pursuing his passion for food for over 20 years. He began his career by cooking for chefs Charlie Trotter and Paul Bertolli and later spent several years sourcing and importing rare ingredients, such as white truffles, for chefs and food companies around the world. In 2004, Matthew founded Cooks’ Venture, a catering and events company. As Executive Chef, he and his team hosted and cooked for culinary events for a wide array of clientele including Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. Matthew’s ideals of cooking have always been based on sustainability, local ingredients, and simple yet expertly prepared cuisine. Matthew is a graduate of The Culinary institute of America in Hyde Park, NY and believes that the best food is made at home.
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About Blue Apron, Cooks Venture: Cooks Venture is a vertically integrated agricultural company to operate solely on regenerative agriculture.
Jacqueline Novogratz
Founder & CEO of Acumen
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About Acumen: Acumen is a non-profit venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty.
David Rosenberg
Co-Founder & CEO of AeroFarms
David, a serial entrepreneur, co-founded and leads AeroFarms, a clean-technology company that builds and operates advanced vertical farms in urban environments. AeroFarms has been recognized as a Circular Economy 100 company, won the World Technology Award for most impactful Environmental Company, was voted Most Innovative Company at the Future of Agriculture conference, the Best Growth Company to invest in at the Wall Street Journal’s ECO:nomics conference, and was a finalist for The Circular Awards of The World Economic Forum. David is also the founder of Hycrete, Inc., a nanotechnology cleantech company.
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About AeroFarms: AeroFarms is an urban cleantech company that provides aeroponic growing systems to produce plants without sun or soil.
Allison Kopf
Chief Executive Officer of Artemis
Allison Kopf is the founder and CEO of Agrilyst, the virtual agronomist powering the horticulture industry. Agrilyst won the highly coveted Disrupt Cup at TechCrunch’s Disrupt event in San Francisco. Kopf was named the 2016 Changemaker of the Year by the Association for Vertical Farming and Entrepreneur of the Year by Technical.ly Brooklyn. Prior to founding Agrilyst, she helped BrightFarms become one of the leading indoor agriculture companies in the U.S. Kopf serves on the boards of the Santa Clara University School of Engineering and Cornell University’s Controlled Environment Agriculture program and is a mentor with #BUILTBYGIRLS and Square Roots Grow.
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About Artemis, XFactor Ventures: Artemis operates an intelligence platform for indoor farms.
Tobias Peggs
CEO of Square Roots Urban Growers
Brit in NYC. Strengthening communities through #realfood as @squarerootsgrow CEO. Previously. @Aviary CEO (acquired by Adobe); @OneRiot CEO (acquired by Walmart). ex-Fluency (speech recognition); Netdecisions (e-commerce consulting); i-Dmagazine (lifestyle publishing).
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About Square Roots Urban Growers: Square Roots Urban Growers is a farming accelerator that assists companies in creating local food businesses.
Viraj Puri
Co-Founder and CEO of Gotham Greens
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About Gotham Greens: Gotham Greens designs, builds, and operates commercial scale greenhouse facilities for fresh vegetable production.
Steve Platt
CEO of BrightFarms
Steve Platt is the CEO at BrightFarms.
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About BrightFarms: BrightFarms is an indoor farming company that specializes in providing locally grown packaged salads.
Siddhartha Jha
Founder, Chairman & CEO of Arbol
Siddhartha Jha has over 13 years of experience in the financial industry covering interest rates and commodities in both quantitative research and trading roles. He launched an agriculture futures trading portfolio managing over $100mn at a major commodity trading firm. Sid was the first analyst at a startup commodity hedge fund, which grew to manage over $600mn in assets. Prior to that, he was Vice President of Interest Rates Strategy at J.P. Morgan. Most recently, Sid was a Cross-Commodities Quantitative Strategist at Citadel, one of the largest hedge funds in the world. Sid authored the well-received book “Interest Rate Markets”, published in both English and Mandarin. He has taught financial markets at NYU and was on the board of a non-profit working with inner city youth. Sid graduated from Harvard University Cum Laude with a B.A. in Applied Mathematics and an M.A. in Statistics.
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About Arbol, dClimate: Arbol is an InsurTech platform for parametric products that pay quickly and fairly covering external risks such as unexpected weather.
Joseph Tarnate
CEO and Co-Founder of FoodFul
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About AccessPass, FoodFul: FoodFul is an agritech company providing cloud-based management systems to dairy farmers.
Jay Farmer
CEO and co-founder of Ascribe Bioscience
Jay Farmer is the CEO and co-founder at Ascribe Bioscience.
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About Ascribe Bioscience: Ascribe Bioscience develops products that enable farmers to combat crop pathogens without negative impacts on the environment.
Tinia Pina
Founder & CEO of Re-Nuble
Tinia Pina is the founder and CEO of Re-Nuble.
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About iMentor, Re-Nuble: Re-Nuble is an agtech company that transforms unrecoverable vegetative food into a platform of sustainable technologies for soilless farming
Ashley Tyrner
CEO & Founder • Farmbox Direct of Farmbox Direct
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About Farmbox Direct: Farmbox Direct delivers the farmers market to your doorstep!
Andrew Carter
Co-Founder / CEO of Smallhold
Co-Founder at Smallhold.
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About Smallhold: Smallhold is a farming technology company that provides automated, modular remotely-managed, and subscription-based growing systems.
Juan Guzman
CEO of Capro-X
Juan Guzman is the CEO and co-founder of Capro-X.
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About Capro-X: Capro-X is an ag-tech company that improves the sustainability in the dairy industry.
Steven Ridder
Founder, CEO of Teralytic
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About Teralytic: Teralytic is an AgTech firm that helps farms increase yield and reduce costs by combining soil science, IOT sensors, and machine learning.
Randy Maslow
Co-founder and President, Interim CEO of iAnthus
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About iAnthus: iAnthus provides a unique combination of capital and hands-on operating and management expertise.
Ethan Steinberg
CEO & Co-founder of Propagate
Ethan is a startup growth expert, turned soil health geek, who is focused on turning ideas into reality. He has helped scale ventures domestically and internationally in industries such as the sharing economy, consumer packaged goods, and B Corp businesses. He is the CEO at Propagate Ventures, an agroforestry investments & project development platform focused on bridging the capital and operational needs for the integration of tree crops to farmland. Ethan holds a B.A. in Social Justice & Sustainability from Miami University, is a Board Member at the Association for Temperate Agroforestry, as well as an Advisory Board member at Purpose + Sport. He also manages Propagate.org, a curated news hub on the regenerative economy. Born on Earth Day, he has been passionate about the environment for his entire life and enjoys living at the intersection of regeneration & technology.
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About Propagate: Agroforestry analytics & project development platform
Long Deng
Chairman and CEO of iFresh, Inc.
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About iFresh, Inc.: Asian American food store chain
Andrey Sevryukov
Co-Founder and CEO of Agrieye
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About Agrieye: AI based solution to support farming efficiency.
Jeffrey Froikin-Gordon
CEO & Co-Founder of AgSquared
Jeff is a leading expert in farm information management processes. In addition to sharing responsibility for AgSquared’s vision, strategy, and leadership with co-founder and co-CEO Giulia Stellari, Jeff leads AgSquared’s team in designing, building, promoting and supporting its farm information management software tools. Jeff’s prior experience breeding tomatoes with small landholder farmers in West Africa informs his conviction that working closely with farmers is vital to the development of products that most closely meet the farmers’ needs. At AgSquared, Jeff involves farmers throughout the product development process to ensure that AgSquared’s products will help farms be more productive, more profitable, and more sustainable. Jeff holds a B.S. from Yale and a Ph.D. from Cornell.
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About AgSquared: AgSquared is a provider of planning and management software for sustainable farmers.
Naftali Hanau
CEO and Co-Founder of Grow & Behold Foods
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About Grow & Behold Foods: Grow and Behold Foods brings you delicious Glatt Kosher Beef, Lamb, Rose Veal and Poultry raised on pasture on family farms.
Janett Liriano
Co-founder, CEO of Inaru
Janett Liriano is the CEO and Co-Founder of LOOMIA.
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About Inaru: Inaru is transforming the agricultural supply chain, starting with cacao and coffee.
Brian Bennett
CEO & Founder of Thrive Agritech
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About Thrive Agritech: Thrive Agritech, a Y-Combinator company, designs and manufactures the world’s most advanced indoor agriculture lighting
Britta Riley
CEO of Windowfarms
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About New York University, Windowfarms: WIndowfarms provide personal scale edible indoor gardens for homes, schools, and restaurants.
Bertha Jimenez
Co-Founder & CEO of RISE Products
Bertha Jimenez is the co-founder and CEO of RISE Products. She holds a Ph.D. in technology management from New York University.
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About RISE Products: Rise is a green startup that upcycles spent barley from microbreweries into a tasty and healthy flour.
John Burns
Founder and CEO of Jack and Jake’s
John Burns is Founder and CEO at Jack and Jake’s.
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About Jack and Jake’s: To provide high quality, safe and affordable local fresh foods from regional farmers and fishers to schools, universities & hospitals.
John Burns
Founder and CEO of Jack and Jake’s
John Burns is Founder and CEO at Jack and Jake’s.
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About Jack and Jake’s: To provide high quality, safe and affordable local fresh foods from regional farmers and fishers to schools, universities & hospitals.
Jonathan Sadlowe
CEO and Lead Scientist of Borough Biological
Jonathan Sadlowe is an entrepreneur and marketing executive. He worked in Operations at RaceTrac Petroleum in Atlanta, GA before moving to New York City where he worked successfully as marketing professional for such firms as Bartle Bogle Hegarty and Young & Rubicam. Following his passion for agriculture, he elected to return to school at Brooklyn College earning a MS in Biology. He went on to found two companies in the New York area, Borough Mushrooms and Borough Biological.
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About Borough Biological, Borough Mushrooms: Sustainable agriculture and human health, industrial biochemicals and advanced materials.
