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This list showcases the top United States based CEO’ operating in the Farming 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.
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Amol Deshpande
CEO & Co-Founder of Farmers Business Network
Amol is CEO and Co-Founder of the FBN network and has a passion for helping feed the world and helping farmers. Amol has spent the better part of his career in and around agriculture at start-up companies, large companies, such as Cargill, and most recently as a partner at Kleiner Perkins Cau feld & Byers. Amol has a chemical engineering degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an MBA from Cornell, where he was a Park Fellow.
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About Farmers Business Network: FBN is an AgTech and commerce platform that helps its members make confident decisions to ensure the economic viability of their farms.
Jonathan Webb
Founder & CEO of AppHarvest
A Kentucky native and University of Kentucky graduate, Jonathan Webb is turning his dream of a high-tech farming hub in Appalachia into reality with AppHarvest. The company is building some of the largest indoor farms in the world, combining conventional agricultural techniques with today’s technology to grow non-GMO, chemical-free produce to be sold to the top 25 U.S. grocers. The company’s first greenhouse will span 60 acres and open in 2020 in Morehead, Ky.The greenhouse will operate entirely on rainwater using a 10-acre retention pond, reducing water usage by 80% compared to a typical farm. Why locate in Appalachia? Like every Kentuckian, Jonathan grew up knowing of the devastating job losses in the region. His grandmother grew up in Whitley County, where a coal mining accident killed his great-grandfather. Jonathan strives to work alongside the hard-working men and women of Eastern Kentucky and build an inclusive economy for the future. By locating within Appalachia, the company is also less than a day’s drive to more than two-thirds of the U.S. population. That lowers transportation costs by 75%, allowing AppHarvest’s fresher produce to better compete against low-cost foreign imports. Before founding AppHarvest, Jonathan worked with the U.S. Department of Defense on the largest solar project in the Southeastern United States. The project aimed to help achieve an Obama-era goal of ensuring the military’s hundreds of installations develop resilient on-site power generation and receive 20% of their electricity from renewable sources by 2025. While living in Washington D.C. developing sustainable energy farms, Jonathan researched another type of farming — the Netherlands and its high-tech greenhouses that in a single acre yield as much as 10 outdoor acres and virtually eliminate the use of chemicals. In February 2018, encouraged by investors, advisors including Hillbilly Elegy author J.D. Vance, and politicians of both parties, Jonathan left Washington and came home to Kentucky, where he now works tirelessly to make the eastern part of the state the AgTech capital of America.
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About AppHarvest: AppHarvest is an AgTech company that specializes in the fields of agriculture, farming, and technology.
Michael Steinmetz
Founder and CEO of Flow Cannabis Co.
Michael Steinmetz is the founder and CEO of Flow Kana, California’s largest distributor of sun-grown organic cannabis from small craft farmers. The company aims to transform cannabis into the world’s first fully sustainable agricultural product, advancing a farming ecosystem rooted in transparency, integrity, and shared equity. Originally from Caracas, Steinmetz built and sold a Venezuelan national food marketing and distribution company, and worked as an investment analyst at Merrill Lynch and a data analyst at NASA’s jet propulsion laboratory.
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About Flow Cannabis Co., Sweet Valley, SAS.: Flow Cannabis Co. offers a wide range of California’s top-selling cannabis CPG brands and a series of services
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.
Barry Brand
Founder and CEO of Brand Farms LLC
Barry Brand is a Dutch-American businessman and entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of Brand Farms LLC and has been part of an esteemed farming family for eight generations. He moved to the United States in the 1980s and launched BH Flowers with his brother, growing snapdragons. He then moved to Carpinteria, California and became one of the first e-commerce flower shippers. From here, he started a company producing romaine lettuce, which eventually expanded to herbs as well. In more recent years, Brand began growing and selling legal marijuana, starting small with nine plants and growing quickly. His CBD and THC (7:1) anti-seizure oil was sold to create medicine for children with seizures and successfully helped to curb the incidence of seizures. He has also been growing GEM avocados and standard avocados through drip irrigation. Most recently, he has been working with his son, Charlie, to protect wild bees by collecting and placing them hives located around the orchard.
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About Brand Farms LLC: Brand Farms specializes in growing high-density, gem-variety avocados and produces year-round fresh herbs.
Hugh Grant
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Monsanto
Hugh Grant is President and Chief Executive Officer at Monsanto.
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About Monsanto: Monsanto Company is a multinational chemical and agricultural biotechnology corporation that provides agricultural products for farmers.
Gabe Sibley
Founder & CEO of Verdant Robotics
Gabe Sibley is the Founder & CEO at Verdant Robotics, Inc.
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About University of Colorado Boulder, Verdant Robotics, Zippy.ai: Verdant Robotics manufactures robotics systems; the company’s current platform delivers transformative agricultural services.
Tushar Dave
Chairman & CEO of FarmX
Tushar Dave is the Chairman & CEO at Enlighted inc
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About Enlighted, FarmX: FarmX offers a precision agriculture platform for optimizing costs and increasing yields for farmers.
Pablo Schwarzbeck
Founder & CEO of ProducePay
Pablo Schwarzbeck is the Co-Founder and CEO at ProducePay.
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About ProducePay: ProducePay is an agriculture fin-tech start-up providing financing, analytics, and marketplace tools for the fresh produce market.
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.
Michael Guirguis
Founder & CEO of SESO
Michael Guirguis is Co-founder and CEO at SESO.
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About SESO: SESO is a labor marketplace for agriculture.
Luis Fernando Hidalgo
CEO of Agrizon
Luis Fernando, is the Founder and CEO of Agrizon.com, an e-commerce specialized marketplace for global and domestic agribusiness markets, with 20 years of experience in the Ag sector. Before funding Agrizon in 2018, Luis was the Former CEO of one of the main agricultural companies in Ecuador, Fertisa – Favorita Fruit Company (main exporter of bananas and 2nd producer of shrimp in the world, as a country), managing Terminal Port and 60 Retail stores chain for Ag inputs for bananas, livestock, seeds, rice, corn, palm oil, shrimp. He is a leader in the fertilizers segment.
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About Agrizon: Agribusiness-focused technology platform that offers an end-to-end online buying experience for farmers, from seed-to-sale.
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.
Sébastien Boyer
Co-founder & CEO of FarmWise
Before co-founding FarmWise, Sebastien worked as a mathematician for IBM Research and a data scientist for Facebook. He holds a Master’s in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from MIT, where he studied machine learning and recent advances in computer vision. While at MIT, he won the Machine Learning for the Digital Economy competition. He is passionate about developing technologies that address long-term environmental sustainability problems. He was one of the winners of Innovators Under 35 Europe 2018 from MIT Technology Review and named to the 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30 list.
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About FarmWise: Feeding our World, and our Future.
Jayce Hafner
CEO and Co-Founder of FarmRaise
Jayce Hafner is a Co-Founder and CEO at FarmRaise. Jayce grew up on a livestock farm in Virginia and worked for half a decade in environmental policy, lobbying U.S. Congress and organizing civil society delegations to the United Nations. A Fulbright Fellow, Jayce has experience in organic farmland investing and on Apple’s Environment, Policy & Social Initiatives team. She holds an MBA/MS from Stanford.
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About FarmRaise: FarmRaise is a digital platform that offers financial resources for farmers and ranchers to make on-farm improvements.
Julia Collins
Founder and CEO of Planet FWD
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About Planet FWD: Planet FWD specializes in developing a regenerative food platform.
Christine Moseley
Founder & CEO of Full Harvest
Christine Moseley, Full Harvest Founder + CEO, is a passionate serial social entrepreneur. At age 17, she started a music education non-profit, which is still growing 14 years later. Currently, at Full Harvest, she is solving the food waste problem at the farm level. Full Harvest is the first institutional B2B platform connecting large farms to food companies to sell surplus and imperfect produce. Christine has over 10 years of experience in the logistics and food industries at both Fortune 100 companies (P&G, Maersk- world’s largest logistics company) as well as high-growth food start-ups. In her last corporate role, she assisted Organic Avenue, a NYC healthy food + juice start-up, double in size as Head of Strategic Projects and Business Development. Christine holds an MBA from Wharton Business School and BA from the University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill.
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About Full Harvest: Full Harvest is the first B2B marketplace for ugly and surplus produce.
Arman Motiwalla
Chief Executive Officer of ADM Labs
Arman Motiwalla is an accomplished entrepreneur and a recognized thought leader in the hospitality and luxury industries. Mr. Motiwalla currently serves as Chairman of ADM Group, following a decade of experience in the hospitality and HNW sector. A global business group, ADM Group’s footprint spans the globe from manufacturing and agribusiness to venture capital & private equity. ADM’s flagship is ADM Labs, a recognized leader in CBD/hemp manufacturing and product development. Today, ADM Group has quickly grown to become a recognized and trusted partner for clients navigating the complexities of a fast paced, global marketplace no matter where their business takes them. Prior to his work in the hemp industry, Mr. Motiwalla founded One Concierge, a global luxury concierge and lifestyle management company recognized as one of the fastest-growing companies in the United States by Inc. magazine. Today, One Concierge, and parent company Aurae Lifestyle, are the producers of the world’s only bespoke solid gold MasterCards providing access to the world’s most exclusive and sought-after events in over 115 countries. Mr. Motiwalla also serves as Vice-Chair of the NCIA Hemp Committee and as an industry stakeholder for Colorado’s Hemp Advancement & Management Plan (CHAMP). Mr. Motiwalla has also been featured in numerous publications including Men’s Journal, Inc. Magazine, The Travel Channel, the Denver Post, Forbes India and The National to name just a few. He holds a degree in Aeronautics and Aviation Safety from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
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About ADM Labs, FiveWest Ventures: ADM Labs’ specific focus is on extraction, manufacturing/processing and wholesale of extract-based products from industrial hemp & CBD.
Brent Shedd
CEO of Stout AgTech
Brent Shedd is the Chief Executive Officer of Stout Industrial Technology.
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About Stout AgTech: OEM of Intelligent Farm Machines
Samuel Bertram
CEO and Co-Founder of OnePointOne
Robotics Engineer
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About OnePointOne: OPO has developed a fully automated vertical farming system to improve the health of humanity through plant-based foods and medicines.
Charles Koch
Chairman of the Board & CEO of Koch Industries
Charles Koch is chairman of the board and CEO of Koch Industries, Inc., a position he has held since 1967.Since then, the company has been transformed into a dynamic and diverse group of companies with more than 100,000 employees and a presence in about 60 countries. Since 2003, Koch companies have invested about $60 billion in acquisitions and other capital expenditures. Based in Wichita, Kan., Koch Industries is involved in refining, chemicals and biofuels; forest and consumer products; fertilizers; polymers and fibers; process and pollution control equipment and technologies; electronic components, commodity trading; minerals; energy; ranching; glass; and investments. Familiar Koch companies’ brands include STAINMASTER® carpet, LYCRA® fiber, Quilted Northern® tissue, and the Dixie® brand of cups, plates and cutlery. Much of Koch Industries’ success can be traced to Mr. Koch’s interest in and commitment to scientific and social progress, which led to the development and implementation of Market-Based Management® business philosophy. The concepts and practice of MBM® are described in Mr. Koch’s book, “The Science of Success,” published in February 2007 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Mr. Koch is further developing the theories and expanding the practice of the MBM philosophy, as well as other applications of the science of human action, not only throughout Koch Industries, but also with scholars, non-profit leaders, government officials and other business leaders. He has continuously supported academic and public policy research (including a number of Nobel Prize winners) for 50 years, with a special focus on developing voluntary, market-based solutions to social problems. This interest led Mr. Koch to found or help build a number of organizations, including the Institute for Humane Studies, Cato Institute, Mercatus Center at George Mason University, Bill of Rights Institute, and Market-Based Management Institute. Mr. Koch received a bachelor’s degree in general engineering (1957) and two master’s degrees in nuclear and chemical engineering (1958 and 1959, respectively) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His employment has been as an engineer, Arthur D. Little, Inc. 1959-61; vice president, Koch Engineering Company, Inc. 1961-63, president, 1963-71; president, Koch Industries, Inc. 1966-74; chairman and chief executive officer, 1967- present. He was born in Wichita, Kansas. Mr. Koch and his wife of 41 years, Liz, have two children.
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About Koch Industries: Koch Industries is an operator of a diverse set of businesses and industries to create life’s basic necessities.
Charles Andersen
CEO of Burro
Charlie Andersen is the CEO at BURRO.
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About Burro, Burro: Burro is a developer of an autonomous farming platform for use on farms and in other tough outdoor environments.
H. David meyers
Chairman, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of AgriSmart
H. David Meyers, is an entrepreneur, attorney and businessman with many diverse talents. After graduating from the University of Miami, he earned his J.D. degree at George Washington University Law School. As an innovative and successful industrialist, he has created, developed and prospered in several companies that have been listed on the NYSE. He was chairman of the board for TimeSaver/Mastercard and Visa. Meyers is also a world-renowned oboist, performing extensively throughout America to critical acclaim in virtually every major concert venue, from Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center to the Kennedy Center, performing with the New York City Symphony Orchestra, New York City Center Opera, Miami Philharmonic, and the Virginia Chamber Orchestra to respectively name a few. H.David is a strong supporter with deep passion for the Wounded Warrior Trust Programs, thus beginning his own non-profit organizational branch as founder and Executive Director of Beethoven Found for Wounded Warriors.
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About AgriSmart: AgriSmart develops a sustainable agriculture technology designed to cultivate crops and other food products.
Anthony Zografos
Founder & CEO of Akorn Technology
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About Akorn Technology: Akorn uses upcycled, non-GMO corn by-products to manufacture edible coatings that makes the shelf life of fresh produce last.
Omer Davidi
CEO & Co-founder of BeeHero
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About BeeHero: BeeHero is a developer of beehive technology platform intended to maximize crop yields through pollination.
Caitlin Hayes
Chief Executive Officer of Vegan Fast, Inc
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About Etheralabs, Vegan Fast, Inc: Agriculture Harvesting & Distribution to Wholesale, Commercial & Direct to Consumer
Robert Laing
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Farm.One
Rob Laing is the CEO & Founder at Farm.One.
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About Farm.One, Google: Farm.One is a high-tech vertical farm that provides rare and heirloom varieties of herbs and microgreens.
Sean P. Lyle
CEO & President of PowerGrow
Sean is the Founder of PowerGrow and is based in Phoenix, AZ. With over 20 years experience in the Software and Energy sectors, Sean is a LEED AP and member of BENS (Business Executives for National Security). Sean earned a BS in Business Administration from the University of Wyoming.
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About PowerGrow: Renewable Powered Controlled Growing Environments and Financial Solutions
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.
Ronald Hovsepian
President and Chief Executive Officer of Indigo
Ronald Hovsepian is the President and CEO at Indigo.
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About Indigo: Indigo uses natural microbiology and digital technologies to improve grower profitability, sustainability, and consumer health.
Bradley Nattrass
CEO of urban-gro, Inc.
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About urban-gro, Inc.: urban-gro provides integrated architectural, engineering & cultivation systems integration for Controlled Environment Agriculture facilities
David Smith
Founder & CEO of High Brew Coffee
David Smith is the Founder/CEO of High Brew Coffee, the country’s first RTD Cold-Brewed coffee available nationally. He and his wife discovered the benefits of cold-brew coffee while sailing their catamaran throughout the Eastern Caribbean. Nothing else delivered the natural energy and refreshing taste than cold-brewed iced coffee. They home-schooled their children while navigating the tropical islands for six months before returning to Austin to start High Brew. Previously, David co-founded Sweet Leaf Tea in 1998 where he was the VP of Sales and Marketing until Nestle acquired the company in 2011. David is co-founder of Rhythm Superfoods and Live Soda and sits on the boards Primizie Snacks and Austin EastCiders. David graduated with a BS in Economics and a minor in Business from the University of Texas in Austin in 1997. He remains in Austin with his wife, daughter and son.
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About High Brew Coffee: High Brew Coffee helps farmers achieve greater profitability with less environmental impact.
Anna Rath
President & CEO of Vestaron
Anna Rath is a pioneer in the development of the dedicated energy crop industry. She founded NexSteppe in 2010 to develop and commercialize optimized crops for the biofuels, biopower and biobased product industries. Today, NexSteppe has established operations in both the U.S. and Brazil and has successfully brought to market and sold its first products. Commercial partners are trialing its products in more than twenty countries on five continents. Rath was formerly Vice President of Commercial Development for Ceres, where she built and launched their energy crop business. Prior to Ceres, she was a consultant with McKinsey focused on corporate strategy, assessment of new business initiatives, and business building in various technology sectors. She holds a JD from Yale Law School, an MS in Genetics from the University of Michigan and a BA in Biology from Macalester College. She also serves on the Biotech Industry Organization’s Industrial and Environmental Section Governing Board.
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About Vestaron: Vestaron produces insecticides for agriculture, animal health, non-crop, and commercial pest control applications.
Patrick Henry
President & CEO (Co-Founder) of GroGuru
As the CEO of GroGuru, Patrick drives the overall strategy and operational execution for an exciting AgTech company that will change the way that we grow crops by using an innovative IOT system for precision irrigation and soil monitoring and management. Patrick is a senior executive and serial entrepreneur that has run four different startup companies. His articles about various aspect of entrepreneurship and building businesses can be found in Inc. Magazine, FastCompany, Tech.Co, Entrepreneur, The Huffington Post, and other publications. Featured on CNBC, Bloomberg Television, and in Forbes. He took a company from pre-revenue and pre-product through a successful IPO and a billion dollar valuation. I’ve personally raised over $200 million in equity financing for my companies, and been directly involved in over $2 billion of M&A transactions. He has the experience and the in-depth knowledge of what it takes to build a business from the ground-up and win in the marketplace. Winner of 2008 Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year for Technology, San Diego Daily Transcript 2008 Top Influentials in the Technology Industry, and 2011 San Diego Business Journal Most Admired CEO.
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About GroGuru: GroGuru is an agriculture company that help farmers increase their crop yield using water in a sustainable way.
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.
Robert L. Antin
President and Chief Executive Officer of VCA Antech
Robert L. Antin, one of our founders, has served as our Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman since our inception in 1986. From September 1983 to 1985, Mr. Antin was President, Chief Executive Officer, a director and co-founder of AlternaCare Corp., a publicly held company that owned, operated and developed freestanding out-patient surgical centers. From July 1978 until September 1983, Mr. Antin was an officer of American Medical International, Inc., an owner and operator of health care facilities. Mr. Antin received his MBA with a certification in hospital and health administration from Cornell University.
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About : VCA Antech is the leading provider of pet health care services in the country with a nationwide clinical laboratory system.
Jamie Warm
CEO of Henry’s Originals
Jamie Warm is the CEO of Henry’s Original. He holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy at UC Santa Barbara.
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About Henry’s Originals: Henry’s Originals is a producer of handcrafted cannabis products.
Naeem Zafar
Co-Founder & CEO of Telesense
Expert in the Silicon Valley startup process. Defining market opportunity, fundraising, business plan development and building teams. 24-years of experience in mentoring entrepreneurs, starting companies and scaling them for success. Worked at seven startups, CEO for four of them. Currently leading Bitzer Mobile, a hot Silicon Valley startup in enterprise mobility space & teaching Entrepreneurship at Haas School of Business at University of California Berkeley. Authored several books on entrepreneurship that can be seen at www.Startup-Advisor.com. Specialties:Strategy for startups. Creating innovation ecosystems in companies. Advising governmental agencies on how to jump start entrepreneurship in their countries. Social businesses.
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About Telesense, TVLP Institute Silicon Valley: TeleSense is an AgTech company providing environmental monitoring and control solutions for the food and grain industry.
Marco Hegyi
CEO/Chairman of Growlife
Marco Hegyi is the Chief Executive Officer, President & Chairman at GrowLife, Inc. Previously, Hegyi was a principal with the Chasm Group from 2006 to December 2011, where he has provided business-consulting services. As a management consultant, Hegyi applied his extensive technology industry experience to help early-stage companies. During this period he has focused on business planning, operational management and financial supervision. Prior to working as a consultant in 2006, Hegyi served as Senior Director of Global Product Management at Yahoo!. Prior to Yahoo!, Hegyi was at Microsoft leading program management for Microsoft Windows and Office beta releases aimed at software developers from 2001 to 2006. While at Microsoft, he formed new software-as-a-service concepts and created operating programs to extend the depth and breadth of the company’s unparalleled developer eco-system, including managing offshore, outsource teams in China and India, and being the named inventor of a filed Microsoft patent for a business process in service delivery. During Hegyi’s career he has served as President and CEO of private and public companies, Chairman and director of boards, finance, compensation and audit committee chairman, chief operating officer, vice-president of sales and marketing, senior director of product management, and he began his career as a systems software engineer. Hegyi has eight issued patents issued to date in the fields of business process, technology and food safety. Hegyi earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Information and Computer Sciences from the University of California, Irvine, and has completed advanced studies in innovation marketing, advanced management, and strategy at Harvard Business School, Stanford University, UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management, and MIT Sloan School of Management. Hegyi was asked to join the Visualant board because of his background in successfully commercializing innovative technologies. Hegyi’s specific experience in marketing, engineering and administration, in both early-stage and established companies, has also provided assistance to the company.
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About Growlife, Growlife: GrowLife is a cultivation service provider that markets progressive horticulture equipment and supplies.
Marcus Meadows-Smith
CEO of BioConsortia
Marcus Meadows-Smith is an accomplished executive, having most recently turned around the biopesticide business AgraQuest Inc., over a five year time frame culminating in that company being acquired by Bayer CropScience for nearly $500 million. Marcus has experience of selecting and leading a team of commercial executives and high calibre scientists essential for the success of a biotechnology enterprise. Marcus began his career at the global trading company Sumitomo Corporation where he was Marketing Manager for Crop Protection Products and Public Health Pesticides Division, based out of London, United Kingdom. From there he moved to Uniroyal Chemical, enjoying a 14-year career in increasingly senior positions in Europe, before transferring to The United States as the company grew to become Chemtura Corporation, and where he ultimately served as Executive Vice President in charge of a $1.9 billion portfolio of businesses including the Crop Protection, Consumer Products, and Plastics Additives divisions. Marcus holds a degree in Biological Sciences, Genetics from the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom. He is a graduate of Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program.
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About BioConsortia, Great Bear Vineyards: BioConsortia is developing highly effective microbial consortia for increasing agricultural yields.
Young Kim
CEO of Digital Harvest
Rather than give you a lofty vision and mission statement, I thought it may be more helpful if I shared with you why Digital Harvest exists. By the year 2050, the number of people living like my family will swell from today’s 1.5 billion to 4.5 billion. My family of four, including two young children (11 and 4 years old) live in a modest 2,700 square foot house in Virginia that was built in 1991. We consider ourselves blessed and are deeply thankful to live in the United States with the comforts of a middle-class lifestyle. If everyone in the world lived like my family, if they had similar driving habits, food choices, energy use and raw material consumption, we would need to have a global footprint of over 30 global acres. As people become more and more affluent, we’re going to need a lot more food and we’re going to have to produce as efficiently as possible, the question is how. At Digital Harvest, we are working to develop new solutions founded on deep technical insights to meet our goal of helping food growers make real-time decisions with agronomic precision.
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About Digital Harvest: Digital Harvest is a global data science company that provides predictive, field-level sugarcane analytics to mills and food groups.
Antonio Lamb
CEO and Co-Founder of MicroSynbiotiX
Antonio received his B.Sc. in Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2015. He has studied the molecular genetics of plants, agrobacteria, and microalgae. He ranked in the top 10% of his class in biochemistry and genetics, and helped his SF DIYBio team place bronze in the 2015 International Genetically Engineered Machine (IGEM) Competition.
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About MicroSynbiotiX: MicroSynbiotiX engages in the development of a technology solution that eliminates the excessive use of antibiotics in farmed fish.
Abner Kurtin
Chairman, CEO & Founder of Ascend Wellness
Abner Kurtin is the Founder of Ascend Wellness Holdings.
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About Ascend Wellness: Ascend Wellness is cannabis operator that owns and operates cultivation facilities to provide easy and accessible products.
Fred Walti II
CEO of NGIN Network for Global Innovation
Fred Walti is the Co-Founder of the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI) and for a period of six years served as its Founding CEO, combining experience as an entrepreneur with his passion for clean technology. LACI is now recognized as one of the premier cleantech commercialization programs in the world: ranked as the #3 Global Incubator by the UBI Index of 1200 incubators; selected by the Department of Energy (DoE) as one of its three national incubators; and chosen by the California Energy Commission (CEC) to establish a Los Angeles Regional Energy Innovation Cluster through a $5 million CEC grant. Fred Walti now serves as the Founder and CEO of the Network for Global Innovation, headquartered in Los Angeles. Under Fred Walti’s leadership, LACI has helped 115+ domestic and international companies raise $160 million in funding and enter new markets globaly. These efforts have created 1,700 jobs and delivered more that $330 million in long term economic value for the City of Los Angeles. In 2016, LACI celebrated the grand opening of the La Kretz Innovation Campus and is the recipient of numerous recognitions, including the Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence. Fred Walti speaks often to groups on creating cleantech innovation ecosystems, harnessing innovation to build large green economies, how to develop a culture of entrepreneurship in a wide variety of organizations, on both the cultural and economic challenges that climate change presents; and creating public/private partnerships that work. Fred Walti was named on the Techweek100 as one of the most impactful technology leaders in 2014. Fred Walti received his BA from New York University.
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About NGIN Network for Global Innovation: NGIN is a global ecosystem for cleantech entrepreneurs that accelerates commercialization of impact technologies.
Robert Chen
Founder, President & CEO of Aessense Holding
Bob is the Founder of AEssenseGrows and also serves as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer. AEssenseGrows is a global agriculture technology company established to solve three 21st century issues: the need for high agriculture yields for a growing population, food safety, and conservation of resources. To achieve these goals, the Company developed a family of precision automated indoor aeroponic plant growth system based on AEssenseGrows’ AEtrium platform – a connected, sensor-based, AI-enabled growing platform – which dramatically increase both the productivity and the sustainability of commercial cultivation.
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About Aessense Holding: Aessense Holding is dedicated to providing solutions and technologies for both small and large scale growth in a sustainable manner.
Paul Sellew
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Little Leaf Farms
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About Little Leaf Farms: They are committed to delivering the freshest, best tasting baby greens to New England salad lovers all year round.
David Ranallo
Founder & CEO of Azoti Inc.
David Ranallo is Founder & CEO at Azoti Inc.
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About Azoti Inc.: Planning & eProcurement SaaS for Professional Food Buyers
Adrian Ferrero
Co-Founder and CEO of Biome Makers
Adrián Ferrero is the Co-Founder & CEO of Biome Makers. With recognition from the Spanish Government, Illumina Accelerator, and MIT Technology Review —Adrián is a self-described entrepreneur on a mission to improve the world. He holds a Master of Science in Economics from the University of Salamanca and a Master of Environmental Management from the Turku School of Economics and Business Administration.
Growing up in an agricultural region of Spain inspired Adrián to co-found, together with Alberto Acedo, Biome Makers Inc., and create its patented BeCrop® technology. From there, Biome Makers has received many awards worldwide (AgSum in Japan, agripreneur 2019 in Greece, WINnovation in US, or Best innovative startup by AgFunder) and attracted over $24M from investors. Prior to Biome Makers, Adrián founded three start-ups and worked as an innovation consultant for more than nine years.
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About AC-Gen Reading Life, Biome Makers: Biome Makers develops neural biocomputing applications that enable sustainable and productive farming.
Jake Joraanstad
Co-Founder and CEO of Bushel
Jake Joraanstad is a mobile technology leader. Jake Joraanstad co-founder and CEO of Myriad Mobile (formerly Myriad Devices), a mobile technology consulting and development company in Fargo, ND. Myriad Mobile’s purpose is to be the single best source for mobile technology, strategy, and consulting in the nation.
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About Bushel, Emerging Prairie, Myriad Mobile: Bushel is focused on building the digital infrastructure in the agricultural supply chain.
David Moosman
CEO/ Co-Founder of ToMarket
David Moosman is CEO/ Co-Founder at To Market Ltd.
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About ToMarket: ToMarket is an online platform for chefs and purveyors that connects ordering, marketing, and invoicing all in one place.
Clayton Mooney
Co Founder & CEO of Nebullam
Clayton Mooney is the Co Founder & CEO at Nebullam.
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About KinoSol, Nebullam, Young Entrepreneur Convention: Nebullam helps home and commercial growers on better food production through Aeroponics paired with time-saving software.
Eddy Badrina
CEO of Eden Green Technology
Eddy Badrina is Chief Executive Officer of Eden Green Technology.
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About Eden Green Technology: Eden Green Technology provides a greenhouse-as-a-service model that allows grocers to vertically integrate their supply chains.
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.
Brian Watkins
CEO of CropZilla
Brian has been a partner at Watkins Farms for over 30 years farming nearly 8,000 acres of corn, soy and wheat in central Ohio. He has achieved significant growth in the farm’s core business, and has founded several joint ventures in agricultural production and marketing. Brian is currently an agriculture consultant with the World Bank driving significant farm management projects in Ukraine. Brian holds both a BS in Agricultural Economics and an MBA from The Ohio State University.
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About CropZilla: CropZilla is software for farm resource planning and operations. Our farmers are able to design and plan their planting.
Eric Gripentrog
Chief Executive Officer of Hemptown Organics
Eric Gripentrog is the Chief Executive Officer at Hemptown Organics.
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About Hemptown Organics: Hemptown Organics is a producer of the finest full-spectrum hemp-derived CBD and CBG products in the world.
Trina Chiasson
Co-founder & CEO of Ovipost
Trina Chiasson is the co-founder and CEO of Ovipost. She was a data visualization research fellow who helped journalists tell stories with data. She produced a 300-page open source book in multiple languages by recruiting more than 100 volunteers in 14 countries.
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About Ovipost: Ovipost is a new startup looking to optimize the right conditions for a cricket grower to get the most yield from a generation of eggs.
Lanny Faleide
President & CEO of Satshot
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About Satshot: Satshot is a online web based mapping system used in the agriculture industry.
David Browning
CEO of Enveritas
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About Enveritas: Enveritas is a non-profit startup that offers a new approach to sustainability assurance for companies and farmers.
Dane Hague
Co-Founder & CEO of MyLand Company
Dane Hague is a co-founder and the CEO at MyLand.
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About MyLand Company: MyLand is at the center of soil health. We help growers create a healthier planet through regenerative agriculture.
Jay Debertin
President, Chief Executive Officer & Director of CHS Hedging
Jay Debertin is executive vice president and chief operating officer, Energy and Foods, for CHS, a diversified energy, grains and foods company based in St. Paul, Minn. Debertin leads the company’s diverse energy operations and processing and food ingredients. Energy includes refineries, pipelines and terminals, refined fuels, propane, lubricants and transportation. CHS Processing and Food Ingredients includes manufacturing facilities in the U.S., China and Israel. He also serves as chairman for the Ventura Foods, LLC, its vegetable oil-based foods joint venture. Debertin joined CHS in 1984 in its petroleum division and held a variety of positions in its energy marketing operations. He was named vice president, Crude Oil Supply, in 1998 based in the company’s Denver, Colo., office. In 2001, he returned to St. Paul, Minn., with responsibilities including raw material supply, refining, pipelines and terminals, trading and risk management, and transportation. He has held his current responsibilities since 2014. Debertin also serves as chairman for Ventura Foods. He earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of North Dakota in 1982 and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Wisconsin – Madison in 1984.
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About CHS Hedging: Commodity brokerage of CHS Inc providing market intelligence, insight and price risk management to farmers, ranchers and agribusinesses.
Dan Allen
CEO & Founder of Farmscape
Dan, an Iowa native, is proud to practice a much different sort of agriculture than his home state is known for. As Farmscape’s CEO, he oversees a multiple bottom-line approach that seeks to maximize the venture’s social and environmental impact as well as its financial well-being. Dan is a Master Gardener and a member of the LA Food Policy Council’s Working Group on Urban Agriculture. He is also a periodic contributor to The Huffington Post and Seedstock.
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About Farmscape: Farmscape is the largest urban farming venture in the country, managing sites in residential backyards, agrihoods and commercial campuses.
Tyler Lorenz
CEO and President of Puris
Tyler Lorenz is the CEO and president of PURIS.
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About Canadian Credit Tips, Puris: Puris cultivates plant-based foods and ingredients from organic and non-GMO sources.
Brian Heinze
President & CEO of Willowood USA
Mr. Heinze began his career as an agronomist for the J.G. Boswell Company in Central California. A graduate of Chico State, Mr. Heinze went on to further his career with multiple positions at Rhone-Poulenc/ Aventis before forming his own generic crop protection company – AgValue in 2001. After an early buyout in 2004, Mr. Heinze moved to Roseburg, Oregon where he served out his non-compete clause before forming Willowood USA in November of 2009.
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About Willowood USA: A Roseburg, Ore.-based manufacturer of generic crop protection products
Bill Levy
CEO/President & founder of Pacific Ag
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About Pacific Ag: Pacific Ag specializes in Biomass Supply Chain, Corn Stover, Residues, and Bioenergy.
Matthew Beckwith
CEO of Rantizo
Matthew’s roots are in farming. Raised on his grandfather’s Nebraska farm, agriculture has been a part of him since I learned to drive a tractor at age 9.
For more than a decade, he has lived and worked in emerging markets, developing expertise in developing and executing strategy, business development, market entry, cross-cultural leadership, organization design, and operations for a range of industries, with an emphasis on innovation that directly benefit farmers.
His career has spanned:
• A college ‘internship’ on an Argentine ranch
• Fulbright grant studying free trade’s effects on Mexican farmers
• Managing a microfinance program in Afghan villages
• Master degrees in policy and business at Harvard and INSEAD
• Advising Indonesian government on climate change strategies with McKinsey
• Building a seed company from ground up in Vietnam
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About Rantizo: Rantizo delivers targeted liquid sprays precisely where they are needed in agricultural applications.
Monte Bottens
Founder & CEO of Ag Solutions Network
Monte Bottens is one of the founding Principals of Riverbend Angels. While participating in a UC Davis Entrepreneurship program, Monte met with several Angel Investors associated with the Sacramento Angels. He later became a member of Sacramento Angels and enjoyed the opportunity to connect with other successful entrepreneurs and business leaders. After returning to Illinois, he saw a need for Angel Capital and Coaching in the Quad City Region. Monte is currently President and CEO of Ag Solutions Network, Inc. (ASN) headquartered in Moline, Illinois. ASN develops and distributes the POWER2GRO product line of liquid fertilizers and bio nutrients, utilizing the latest technological advancements and highest-quality ingredients. Today, ASN has 14 Retail Partners and Team Development Managers across six states.
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About Ag Solutions Network: Ag Solutions Network is a crop production system that gives every farmer and every plant a better chance.
Jason Tatge
CEO, President & Cofounder of Farmobile
Jason Tatge serves as Farmobile’s CEO. A driving force in the Midwest’s entrepreneurial community, Jason has been leading internet and agtech companies for more than 15 years. His previous company, Farms Technology, created an electronic marketplace to automate grain transaction and risk management processes, offering automated hedging algorithms accessible via smartphones and tablets. Farms Technology was purchased by DuPont/Pioneer in December 2012. Following the successful exit of Farms Technology, Jason became intensely focused on using IoT devices to passively collect data from farm equipment as farmers operate on their land. Half of U.S. farmers leave this valuable data locked in their machines. Farmobile was created to provide Farmers with real time access and ownership to their farming information. Jason earned a degree in Financial Economics from Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter MN and an MBA from The Fogelmen School at The University of Memphis. Jason served as the Pipeline Member President, and is actively involved with the Entrepreneurial community. Jason and his wife live in Bucyrus, KS and have two children.
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About Farmobile: Farmobile specializes in collecting second-by-second agronomic and machine data from a mixed fleet.
Bruce Rastetter
CEO of Summit Agricultural Group
Bruce Rastetter is the founder and CEO of Agricultural Group.
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About Summit Agricultural Group, Summit Carbon Solutions: Summit Agricultural Group engages in a diverse farming, agricultural investment, and farm management.
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
Patrick Zelaya
Founder & CEO of HeavyConnect
Patrick founded HeavyConnect in 2015 to provide farmers with a cloud platform that simplifies operational complexity and improves communication using their existing mobile devices. Before HeavyConnect, Patrick’s career at Deere & Company was spent working with enterprise farmers throughout the world in roles of sales & marketing, factory product support, customer support, and channel management. Patrick earned his MBA from St. Ambrose University and Bachelor’s from Arizona State University.
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About HeavyConnect: HeavyConnect provides cloud-based digital compliance documentation solutions for the food supply chain.
Usman Javaid
Founder & CEO of Ricult Inc.
Usman Javaid is the Founder & CEO at Ricult Inc.
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About Ricult Inc.: Ricult is a Data Science company that develops AI/Data/Tech/Financial-based digital solutions for the agricultural ecosystem.
Yianni Lagos
Co-Founder & CEO of Soil Culture Solutions
Yianni Lagos is the Co-Founder and CEO of Soil Culture Solutions & he attended The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law in 2007.
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About Scanslated, Soil Culture Solutions: Soil Culture Solutions is a Agriculture Company.
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.
Sean Warner
Co-Founder & CEO of Grubbly Farms
Sean Warner is the Co-Founder & CEO at Grubbly Farms.
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About Grubbly Farms: Grubbly Farms develops healthy and sustainable pet food using farm-grown black soldier fly grubs.
Daniel Imrie-Situnayake
CEO of Tiny Farms
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About Tiny Farms: Technology for farming edible insects
Aidan Connolly
Chief Executive Officer of Cainthus
Aidan Connolly is the Chief Executive Officer of Cainthus.
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About Alltech, Cainthus: Cainthus is a computer vision and artificial intelligence for dairy farms.
Jose Laracuente
President & CEO of AgVision
Jose Laracuente serves as the Chief Executive Officer and President at AgVision Agribusiness Software.
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About AgVision: AgVision designs accounting and inventory management software for agribusiness.
Donald Taylor
CEO of AmplifiedAg
Don Taylor is the Chief Executive Officer at AmplifiedAg.
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About AmplifiedAg: AmplifiedAg aims to provide global access to safe food.
Deborah Walliser
Founder and CEO of Got Produce? Franchising Inc
Deborah Walliser is the founder and CEO of Got Produce Franchising Inc. She received her B.S. in Botany from North Carolina State University and her Master’s in Education, and Masters in Project Administration from Northern Arizona University. Industry challenges led to Deborah’s development of a very unique greenhouse control system to run an entire greenhouse business from an i-pad. The second version came on the heels of successful design/build of first hydroponic lettuce ponds to withstand extreme temperatures. Deborah has increased crop rotations from 2 to 15 per year, and managed fresh product packaging, sales and distribution to wholesale and retail outlets. She has trained employees and monitored environmental controls for optimum production and implemented proprietary irrigation and fertigation strategies for custom marketing of fresh produce. Deborah opened new markets for hydroponic lettuce including large bagged salad proprietors while developing standardized quality protocols for international sales. She is currently selling greenhouse franchise systems in Africa, Australia and the US. Deborah has consulted with clients from around the world in putting these systems together in arid or water restricted climates. Her specialties are creating innovative water conservation methods for agriculture and food production, project planning and development, fresh produce marketing and branding, project planning and development.
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About Got Produce? Franchising Inc: Got Produce? Franchising, a farming franchise company, provides patented hydroponic greenhouse solutions to local communities worldwide.
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
Nick Halmos
CEO, Farmer-in-Chief of Cityblooms
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About Cityblooms: Cityblooms is a company that provides modular farming and gardening products.
Kathleen Rolin
Chief Executive Officer of Cowboy Cricket Farms
CEO of Cowboy Cricket Farms, Food Safety Officer, Presenter, Baker, and Mother to 3.
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About Cowboy Cricket Farms: Cowboy Crickets Farms produce super nutritious food from organically raised crickets.
Richael Young
Founder & CEO of Mammoth Water
Richael Young is the founder and CEO at Mammoth Water.
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About Mammoth Water: Mammoth Water specializes in providing its clients with solutions in managing water assets.
Paulina Kissinger
CEO of Biohemp Industries Inc.
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About Biohemp Industries Inc.: BIOHEMP USDA Certified Organic industrial Hemp grown for USDA certified organic CBD OIL & ISOLATES
Richard Genga
Founder and CEO of Growgenics
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About Growgenics: Growgenics is a manufacturer and provider of advanced, customizable LED horticultural shape-lighting for indoor farming and cannabis.
David Hasenauer
CEO of Green Point Research
David Hasenauer currently works as the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founded Green Point Research. He previously worked at Florida For Care as Legislative Aide.
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About Green Point Research: Green Point Research is a biotechnology company that focuses on phytocannabinoid-rich hemp biomass origination.
Adewale Oparinde
Founder and CEO of EZFarming
Cambridge University Alumnus
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About EZFarming, SNAPRA: EZFarming is a marketplace that helps farmers finance their business and sell their products.
Shashank Goel
CEO & Founder of Endura Bio
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About Endura Bio: Endura Bio engineers economically important crops to provide high yields under drought or saline irrigation conditions.
Matthew O’Hayer
CEO and Co-Founder of Vital Farms
Matthew O’Hayer is the CEO and Co-Founder at Vital Farms
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About Ovabrite, Vital Farms: Vital Farms is a provider and manufacturer of pasture-raised eggs and poultry.
Andrey Sevryukov
Co-Founder and CEO of Agrieye
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About Agrieye: AI based solution to support farming efficiency.
Kevin France
CEO of SWIIM System
France serves as SWIIM’s Chief Executive Officer and board member. Under his leadership, SWIIM has been recognized as a top 25 ag tech company globally by Forbes Magazine for two consecutive years and he has grown the company’s operations and strategic partnerships with major agricultural stakeholders. Mr. France has been involved in agricultural development ventures including water rights, land and natural resources. He has also assisted companies at a senior level in organization, management, strategy and capital development activities in the food service, broadcast, agriculture and technology sectors.
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About Regenesis Management Group, SWIIM System: SWIIM System enables agricultural water users to optimize water rights, conserve water, and increase net incomes of farm operations.
Sarah Bellos
CEO & Founder of Stony Creek Colors
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About Stony Creek Colors: Stony Creek Colors is engaged in the production of bio-based dyes together with farmers, mills, and brands.
Taylor Scott
Co-Founder & CEO of SolVia Solar
Taylor is a mechanical engineering undergraduate student at the University of Colorado with experience redesigning manufacturing processes and leading a user-centered design project to benefit a child with a disability.
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About SolVia Solar: SolVia Solar is an AgTech developer and manufacturer that provides solar irrigation systems to farmers in the developing world.
John Zevgolis
Founder and CEO of AquaHarvest
John is a Founder of AquaHarvest, 15 year international C-Level Exec, multi-site, market and operations development, scaling and rapid growth. Projects valued at $1 billion.
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About AquaHarvest: AquaHarvest Inc. operates in the agricultural industry.
Matthew Donovan
CEO of Agroview AI
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About Agroview AI, Momentum Consulting Group: Agroview is an AI software platform that provides next generation agriculture information; a product of the University of Florida.
John Purcell
President and CEO of Unfold
John Purcell is the President and CEO of Unfold. Purcell was previously Bayer CropScience’s head of vegetables R&D.
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About Unfold: Unfold focuses on innovating vegetable varieties that deliver optimized quality and sensory experience in the vertical farming industry.
Grant Leishman
CEO & Founder of GrowUp
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About GrowUp, HelloCrowd Inc: GrowUp creates and develops green wall systems for commercial and residential properties.
Jack Barnes
Founder and CEO of AgData.Info
Founder, Former Portfolio Manager of a Long Short Equity Fund. Product Design.
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About AgData.Info: Our innovative solution Constantly Monitors your plants and crops,
Virginia Emery
Founder and CEO of Beta Hatch
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About Beta Hatch: Beta Hatch industrializes the production of insects as a sustainable protein for animal feed.
Alu de Urquiza
Co-Founder & CEO of Agrow
Alu de Urquiza is a Co-Founder and the Chief Executive Officer at Agrow. Prior to founding Agrow, she worked as a Senior Analyst for Credit Management Division at Banco Galicia.
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About Agrow: Agrow is a digital marketplace that allows buyers and sellers to set up deals.
