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At CFO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United States based CFO’ operating in the Agriculture space. If you think a CFO’ 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.
Ben Dusastre
Co-founder & CFO of ProducePay
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About ProducePay, ProducePay, UCLA Anderson School of Management: ProducePay is an agriculture fin-tech start-up providing financing, analytics, and marketplace tools for the fresh produce market.
Mary Lindsey
Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Commercial Metals Company
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About Commercial Metals Company: Commercial Metals is a vertically integrated, Fortune 500 steel company that recycles, manufactures, fabricates, and trades steel globally.
Amrita Bhandari
CFO of Acumen
Acumen’s focus on building a world based on dignity through creative though tangible solutions is why I am so passionate about working here.” Amrita is Acumen’s global CFO, responsible for financial operations across our geographies, strategy, planning and reporting. Prior to Acumen, Amrita was CFO of Katzenbach Partners, a dynamic management consulting firm and was instrumental in the merger integration of Katzenbach with Booz & Co. In addition to her management role, she consulted with clients across a range of industries with a focus on strategy and planning. Since then, she developed her own independent consulting practice with a focus on inspiring organizations in the social sector. Amrita has worked with Acumen in the past as a strategy consultant covering a range of topics such as clarifying Acumen’s business model, developing a multi-year operating plan and evaluating Acumen’s employee compensation plans. Amrita has also worked with Management Leadership for Tomorrow, Edelman and other professional services firms. Amrita received a BA in International Relations from The College of Wooster.
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About Acumen: Acumen is a non-profit venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty.
Matthew Strongin
Co-Founder & CFO of Nature’s Fynd
Matthew Strongin is a Co-Founder and Chief Financial Officer at Nature’s Fynd.
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About Lotic Labs, Nature’s Fynd: Nature’s Fynd is a food company that makes nutritional vegan protein from a microbe.
Brad Kotansky
Chief Financial Officer of Copperstate Farms
Brad Kotansky has always been a serial investor: while pursuing his undergraduate BComm degree at McGill University, Brad was a member of the finance club and interned at ScotiaMcLeod for a wealth advisor; upon graduation, his passion for investing led him to Wall Street where he spent over a decade working as an investment banker, and later as an analyst and portfolio manager for various hedge funds; in 2012, he founded Prickly Pear Ventures, a real estate development firm in Phoenix, Arizona, to capture opportunities from fallout of the Real Estate crisis of 2009 (the portfolio of single-family homes he amassed was ultimately sold to ARPI, a publicly traded REIT in 2013). To this day, Brad continues to be very active in the angel and seed investing world having invested in companies such as Coupang, Synchtank, Playsight, New Hive and Jingle Punks. But one thing Brad had always wanted to do was start and operate a business of his own. Ari’s business plan was tweaked, and together the pair embarked on a search for a technical founder.
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About Copperstate Farms: Copperstate Farms is an Arizona-based, vertically integrated cannabis company providing economic growth.
Russell Sprole
CFO of Full Harvest
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About Full Harvest: Full Harvest is the first B2B marketplace for ugly and surplus produce.
Paul Graves
Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer of FMC Corporation
Paul Graves was named executive vice president and chief financial officer on October 1, 2012. He brings more than 19 years of international banking and accounting experience, with a specialized focus on chemicals and agriculture. Mr. Graves previously served as managing director and partner in the Investment Banking Division at Goldman Sachs Group in Hong Kong, where he was the co-head of Natural Resources for Asia (excluding Japan). In that capacity, he was responsible for managing the company’s Pan-Asian Natural Resources Investment business. Also for Goldman Sachs he served as Global Head of Agricultural Investment Banking and Global Head of Chemical Investment Banking. He joined Goldman Sachs in its London office in 2000, and was promoted to managing director in 2006. He became a partner in 2008. Mr. Graves previously held finance and auditing roles of increasing responsibility at Ernst & Young, British Sky Broadcasting Group, ING Barings and J. Henry Schroder & Co. Mr. Graves earned his bachelor of arts in Accounting and Finance from Nottingham Trent University in 1993, and qualified as a Chartered Accountant (ACA) with Ernst & Young.
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About FMC Corporation, Livent: FMC Corporation is an US-based chemical manufacturing company producing solutions for the agricultural, textile, and healthcare industries.
Dan Knutson
EVP & CFO of Land O’ Lakes
Dan serves as executive vice president and chief financial officer of Land O’Lakes, Inc. With more than 35 years of experience, Dan oversees corporate finance, accounting, treasury, audit and strategy. Prior to his appointment to chief financial officer in 2000, he held several leadership roles within finance and accounting. Dan is a certified public accountant and certified management accountant. He holds both a bachelor’s and MBA from Minnesota State University–Mankato.
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About Land O’ Lakes: Land O’Lakes is a member-owned, idea-driven agricultural cooperative that markets our products under a well known family of brands.
Eric Haley
Co-Founder & Chief Financial Officer of Gotham Greens
Eric co-founded Gotham Greens in 2009 and oversees all financial operations as CFO. He has over 10 years of experience in finance specializing in M&A, capital raising, and strategic consulting. Prior to Gotham Greens, Eric spent time at Corporate Fuel Partners, a Manhattan-based investment bank and private equity fund and JP Morgan Chase. Eric earned his M.B.A from the University of Notre Dame and a B.S. from the University of Wyoming where he played Division I football. When Eric isn’t seeking the next great restaurant or hunting for the finest ingredients for his own kitchen, he can be found spending time with his family and dog, Beatrice.
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About Gotham Greens: Gotham Greens designs, builds, and operates commercial scale greenhouse facilities for fresh vegetable production.
Jim Young
Chief Financial Officer of Indigo
Jim Young is the CFO at Indigo.
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About Indigo: Indigo uses natural microbiology and digital technologies to improve grower profitability, sustainability, and consumer health.
Tony M. Shelby
CFO of LSB Industries
Mr. Tony M. Shelby is Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President – Finance of LSB Industries Inc. He is a certified public accountant previously with Arthur Young & Co., a predecessor to Ernst & Young LLP, is our Executive Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer, a position he has held for more than ten years. Mr. Shelby has served as a member of the LSB executive management team since inception in 1969. Mr. Shelby is a graduate of Oklahoma City University.
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About LSB Industries: LSB INDUSTRIES, INC. is a manufacturing, marketing, and engineering company.
Craig Kinnison
Senior Vice President Chief Financial Officer of Farm Credit Services of America
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About Farm Credit Services of America: Farm Credit Services of America provides credit and crop insurance services to farmers.
Steve Campione
CFO of BrightFarms
Steve Campione is the CFO at BrightFarms.
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About BrightFarms: BrightFarms is an indoor farming company that specializes in providing locally grown packaged salads.
Philippe Heilberg
Co-Founder, President, COO & CFO of Arbol
Philippe brings decades of senior executive experience in commodities and emerging markets. He has been investing in assets across emerging markets including Asia, Africa, and the former Soviet Union region since 2001. Philippe is an ex-partner at the commodities trading unit at AIG, one of the largest insurance companies in the world. He is a contributor to the discourse on blockchain technology including published articles. In addition, Philippe has been a member of the NY Board of Trade Commodity Exchange and is former President Circle member of Asia Society. He graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with a B.S. Summa Cum Laude and MBA.
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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.
Jeff Elliott
Chief Financial Officer of FarmLink
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About FarmLink: FarmLink is an AgTech company that enables the next transformation in agriculture and land conservation.
Danny Posch
Senior Vice President and CFO of Mid Kansas Cooperative Association
Danny Posch serves as the chief financial officer and senior vice president for MKC. Before joining MKC, Danny was a partner with Lindburg Vogel Pierce Farris. Danny serves as a director for the Cooperative Finance Association, National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, and is a member of the Finance Council for Land O’ Lakes. He graduated from Wichita State University with a degree in business administration. Danny and his wife, Jill, have four children, Gabbie, Grace, Todd and Derek. During his free time, Danny enjoys boating, skiing, wakeboarding, and watching his children participate in basketball and volleyball.
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About Mid Kansas Cooperative Association: Mid Kansas Cooperative Association is a full-service farm cooperative offering a supplies and services for both farm and urban customers.
Ron Tchorzewski
CFO of Med-X
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About Med-X: Med-X innovates, researches, and develops a variety of all-natural and alternative solutions to harmful pharmaceutical products.
Daniel Neville
Chief Financial Officer of Ascend Wellness
Daniel Neville is the Chief Financial Officer at 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.
Renee Peterson
Vice President, Treasurer and CFO of The Toro Company
Renee Peterson joined The Toro Company as vice president, finance and CFO in 2011 from Eaton Corporation. Her background also includes extensive work experience with Honeywell International. She was appointed Treasurer in July 2013. Peterson is responsible for all financial areas of the company, including tax, controllership, internal audit, corporate liability and risk management, banking relations and investor relations. She also has responsibility for information services, business development and facilities. Peterson earned her Bachelor of Science in accounting from Saint Cloud State University, and an MBA from the University of Minnesota – Carlson School of Management. She currently serves on the boards of directors of Franklin Electric Co., Inc., the Greater Twin Cities United Way and The Toro Foundation.
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About The Toro Company: The Toro Company is a worldwide provider of innovative turf, landscape, rental and construction equipment.
Jim Zaferis
CFO of Pegasus Foods
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About Pegasus Foods: Pegasus Foods is a frozen food manufacturer for some of the largest retail and restaurant chains.
Timothy Skidmore
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of CHS Hedging
Timothy Skidmore is executive vice president and chief financial officer for CHS, the nation’s leading farmer-owned cooperative and a global energy, grains and foods company. Skidmore joined CHS in August 2013 and is responsible for finance, accounting, tax, patron equity, treasury, strategic sourcing and insurance risk management. He previously served as vice president of finance and strategy for Campbell North America, Campbell’s largest operating division. Skidmore joined Campbell as assistant treasurer in 2001 and has held numerous leadership positions in finance including leading the cash management, corporate finance and international treasury functions and serving in various business unit CFO roles including the U.S. soup, simple meals, beverages and international businesses where he was responsible for financial strategy, planning, reporting and balance sheet management. Prior to joining Campbell, Skidmore spent 15 years at DuPont Co., where he held a variety of financial leadership positions, including leading DuPont’s finance function across Asia Pacific. Skidmore began his career at Conoco Philips. Skidmore is currently on the board of trustees for the Science Museum of Minnesota, where he serves on the Audit and Finance Committee. He holds a bachelor’s degree in risk management from the University of Georgia and a Master of Business Administration in finance from Widener University, Chester, Penn.
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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.
Jim Kennelly
Chief Financial Officer of The Climate Corporation (Bayer Crop Science)
Jim Kennelly currently works as Chief Financial Officer at The Climate Corporation. He previously worked at Bayer Thailand as Managing Director and CFO.
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About The Climate Corporation (Bayer Crop Science): The Climate Corporation is a technology platform helping people and businesses manage and adapt to climate change.
Kim Howard
Chief Financial Officer of Willowood USA
Ms. Howard served in the U.S. Army in Washington, D.C., Germany, and Saudi Arabia. She then went on to attend Oregon State University and earned her Bachelor’s Degree with a major in Business Administration-Accounting and a minor in Pre-Law. She spent the first part of her career as an Auditor with Deloitte & Touche, where she earned her CPA license and then moved into private industry working primarily in the manufacturing and retail industries for both publicly-traded and privately-held companies. For fun, Ms. Howard loves to spend her free time fishing, camping and motorcycle riding.
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About Willowood USA: A Roseburg, Ore.-based manufacturer of generic crop protection products
Holly OKeefe
General Counsel & CFO of Main Street Data
Holly OKeefe serves as the Chief Financial Officer, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary at Main Street Data.
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About Main Street Data: Main Street Data is an ag-focused, data-driven product company that brings precise data science practices to agriculture.
Bryan DiMatteo
CFO of Farmwave
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About Farmwave: Farmwave leads the agriculture industry in vision-based AI solutions.
Kyle Cobb
Co-Founder, President & CFO of Advanced Farm Technologies
Kyle Cobb is the Co-Founder, President and CFO at Advanced.Farm.
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About Advanced Farm Technologies: Advanced Farm Technologies is a robotics company for the next frontier of farming.
Jena Brentano
Founder and CFO of Tiny Farms
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About Tiny Farms: Technology for farming edible insects
Andrew H. Beck
SVP & CFO of AGCO Corporation
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About AGCO Corporation: AGCO Corporation (AGCO) is a manufacturer and distributor of agricultural equipment and related replacement parts globally.
Stuart Brown
Chief Financial Officer of Inari
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About Inari: Inari presents high performing plant varieties that improve the economic and environmental realities of production agriculture.
Avi Lifshitz
CFO of Pimi Agro
Mr. Avi Lifshitz is our Chief Financial Officer, and brings to Pimi more than 25 years of experience in accounting, finance and business management. , Mr. Lifshitz is serving for 16 years as CFO of Jordan Valley Semiconductors Ltd which is preparing its financial statement in accordance with the US GAAP. He is the Secretary of Jordan Valley Semiconductors UK Ltd and Jordan Valley Semi Conductors Gmbh (Germany). He has joined Meiri-Lifshitz Accounting firm in 1990 and is a partner since then. Mr. Lifshitz is a director in Bede Scientific Inc (US) in Efrat Consultants Ltd (ISR) and in Ed-Wise Ltd (ISR). Mr. Lifshitz teaches at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology where he won an award for excellence in 1998. He is certified as a public accountant in Israel, and holds a B.A. in economics and accounting from Haifa University.
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About Pimi Agro: Pimi Agro was established in 2004 to capitalize on many years of research in developing eco-friendly solutions.
Jared Young
CFO of AgriSource Data
Jared Young is the Investments at Cecil & Campbell Advisors, LLC.
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About AgriSource Data, Cecil & Campbell Advisors: AgriSource Data is an agtech company focused on end-to-end IoT-based solutions for precision agriculture and smart irrigation management.
LeJuano Varnell
Treasurer/CFO of Urban City Fresh
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About : creating a culture of healthy urban living via food education, access, opportunity and sustainability.
Edward Paslawski
Chief Financial Officer of Beltane Solar Inc
Ed Paslawski is an experienced clean tech founder of multiple companies and has a thirty-five year career in commercial lending, structured finance, equity & mezzanine investing and investment banking.
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About Beltane Solar Inc: Solar Desalination – Sun Trio™ and Solar Cogeneration – SunDuo™
Sharra Odle
Chief Financial Officer of AgMark
Sharra Odle is a Chief Financial Officer at AgMark.
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About AgMark: AgMark
Sharra Odle
Chief Financial Officer of AgMark
Sharra Odle is a Chief Financial Officer at AgMark.
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About AgMark: AgMark
Diane Beffa
Chief Financial Officer of Ground Up Biosolutions
Diane Beffa is Chief Financial Officer at Ground Up Biosolutions.
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About Ground Up Biosolutions: Ground Up Biosolutions, LLC was established to commercialize a patent pending process.
Clay Mason
CFO of Healthy Harvest
He was born and raised in Little Rock, Arkansas as the youngest of three children. When they were younger, the three of them helped their father grow watermelons, tomatoes, squash, and other produce on a 35 acre farm just five miles outside of Little Rock.
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About Healthy Harvest: Small management group with various business degrees from the Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas.
Clay Mason
CFO of Healthy Harvest
He was born and raised in Little Rock, Arkansas as the youngest of three children. When they were younger, the three of them helped their father grow watermelons, tomatoes, squash, and other produce on a 35 acre farm just five miles outside of Little Rock.
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About Healthy Harvest: Small management group with various business degrees from the Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas.
Todd Walker
CFO of The Sun Valley Group
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About The Sun Valley Group: The Sun Valley Group is the supplier of Cut Flowers in the United States
Sandy Jones
CFO/VP of Finance of Keithly-Williams Seeds
Sandy is a Financial Professional with broad-based multi-industry, multi country, multi-cultural expertise: union manufacturing, nonunion manufacturing and service industries. Sandy has proven success in overseeing all aspects of Finance, Accounting, IT and operational functions of the organization. She is a natural leader with team-oriented, enthusiastic and positive management style encouraging dedicated finance team members to support business objectives.
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About Keithly-Williams Seeds: Keithly-Williams Seeds’ mission is to maintain and build a long-term retail vegetable seed business that has growth, profitability.
Victor R. Allen
Chief Financial Officer of Renewable Algal Engery
Mr. Victor R. Allen received his M.B.A. from the Babcock Graduate School of Management at Wake Forest University and his Bachelor’s Degree in Agricultural Business Administration from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. He has 23 years of diverse management experience through work at Eastman Chemical Company, where he served in various roles, including Vice President and Treasurer, Director of Business Finance for a $2.5 billion division, and Product Manager of Hydrocarbon Resins and Dispersions. Mr. Allen has extensive direct experience in financial planning and analysis, mergers and acquisitions, and manufacturing cost accounting. He led international business teams in a variety of industries, from adhesives and textile chemicals to fibers. Additionally, he has experience with developing and maintaining information systems and introducing new products in sales and marketing. Prior to his career at Eastman, Mr. Allen worked in the dry edible bean industry. He has been a Board Member for the National Association of Corporate Treasurers since 2008.
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About Renewable Algal Engery: Renewable Algal Energy (RAE) is an algal biotechnology firm committed to producing high-quality, refined raw materials.
