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Global AgInvesting 2018

April 23-25 2018

Grand Hyatt New York

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Global AgInvesting 2018 Speaking Faculty

If you are interested in joining the Speaking Faculty, please contact Jared Rose or Kate Westfall.


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Kurt Akers
Assistant Senior Investment Officer
Washington State Investment Board
 
Brian Angiuli
Chief Executive Officer
Simply Natural Investments
 
Robert Appleby
Co-Founder & Chief Investment Officer
ADM Capital Europe LLP
 
Tom Avinelis
Principal
Agriculture Capital
 
Steve Barnard
President & CEO
Mission Produce
 
Joy Basu
Food & Agriculture Sector Lead
The Rise Fund
 
Rajesh Behal
Chief Investment Officer, Global Agribusiness
International Finance Corporation (IFC)
 
Michael Bertram
Director of Private Equity Investments
NCH Capital Inc.
 
Richard Bodio
Portfolio Manager
Hancock Agricultural Investment Group
 
Hans Bogaard
Acting Director, Agribusiness, Food & Water
FMO - Dutch Development Bank
 
Alan Boyce
Executive Chairman
Materra Farming Company
 
Patrick Christie
Founder
Conservis Corporation
 
Jeffrey A. Conrad
President and Founder
AgIS Capital LLC
 
Curt Covington
Senior Vice President, Agricultural Finance
Farmer Mac
 
Philippe de Lapérouse
Managing Director
HighQuest Partners
 
Disque Deane
Chief Investment Officer and Founder
Water Asset Management
 
Sharon Devir
Chairman
ROOTS / Rimonim Venture Capital
 
Dan Dierking
President
NCREIF
 
Chris Erickson
President
Parsonage Lane Advisors
 
Jake Espenmiller
Regional Director, Agricultural Finance
MetLife Investment Management
 
Joelle Faulkner
President
Area One Farms
 
Al Foreman
Partner
Tuatara Capital
 
Rich Gammill
Managing Partner
Proterra Investment Partners
 
Ari Gendason
Chief Investment Officer
Continental Grain Company
 
Patrick Ghidirim
Managing Director
NCH Capital Inc.
 
David Gladstone
President & Chief Executive Officer
Gladstone Land Corporation
 
David Gray
Senior Advisor
Altima Partners
 
Alyssa A. Grikscheit
Partner
Sidley Austin LLP
 
Andrew Hoffmann
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Rock Island LLC
 
Joshua Hofheimer
Partner
Sidley Austin LLP
 
Kusi Hornberger
Senior Project Manager
Dalberg Global Development Advisors
 
Luis Alberto Ibarra
Managing Director
FOCIR
 
Eric Jackson
Chief Executive
Pipeline Foods LLC
 
Sumer Johal
Chief Executive Officer & Founder
Agralogics
 
Matt Karnes
Founder
GreenWave Advisors, LLC
 
Ejnar Knudsen
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
AGR Partners
 
David Krause
President
Wonderful Citrus
 
Noelle Laing
Managing Director
Cambridge Associates
 
Jonathan Logan
Managing Director
Proterra Investment Partners
 
Alejandro López Moriena
Chief Sustainability Officer
Adecoagro
 
Don Mackay
Chairman
New Harvest Investment Management
 
Steel Maloney
President-Cascade Earth Sciences
Valley Irrigation
 
Pam Marrone
Chief Executive Officer
Marrone Bio Innovations
 
Rich Matheson
Portfolio Manager
Utah Retirement Systems
 
Jim McCandless
Managing Director, Head of Real Estate-Farmland, UBS Asset Management
UBS Farmland Investors, LLC
 
Scott McEwen
Senior Vice President & Senior Managing Director
CBRE
 
Tim McGavin
Chief Executive Officer
Laguna Bay
 
Paul McMahon
Managing Partner
SML Partners
 
Charlie McNairy
Chief Executive Officer
International Farming Corporation
 
Mark Moore
Manager, Capital Markets and BD
Bunge Financial Services Group
 
David Muth PhD
Managing Partner
Alternative Equity Advisors - Peoples Company
 
Sean O'Reilly
Head of Crop Australia
Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets
 
Caroline Otonglo
Chief Investment Officer, Agriculture Finance and Rural Development
African Development Bank
 
Anatole Pevnev
Managing Director
US Agriculture
 
Randall Pope
Director and Senior Advisor, former President and CEO
The Westchester Group
 
Sebastian Popik
Managing Partner
Aqua Capital
 
Mitchell Presser
Partner
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
 
William Proom
Managing Director
MainePERS
 
Kevin Rivchun
Vice President
The Townsend Group
 
David Rosenberg
Chief Executive Officer
AeroFarms
 
David Sackett
Managing Director
Growth Farms Australia
 
Patricia Saputo
Chief Financial Officer
Placements Italcan Inc.
 
Detlef Schoen
Head of Real Assets
Insight Investment
 
Kevin Schwartz
Chief Executive Officer
Paine Schwartz Partners
 
Angus Selby
Managing Director, Macquarie Agricultural Funds
Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets
 
Troy Setter
Chief Executive Officer & Director
Consolidated Pastoral Company (CPC)
 
Jamie Shen
Chief Investment Officer
Prudential Agricultural Investments
 
Bruce J. Sherrick
Fruin Professor of Farmland Economics and Director
TIAA Center for Farmland Research
 
Ray Smith
Senior Vice President
Prudential Agricultural Investments
 
Hunt Stookey
Director of Research & Investment Strategy
Ceres Partners
 
Nick Tapp
Chairman
Craigmore
 
Craig Tashjian
Managing Director & Founding Partner
AMERRA Capital Management
 
John Vaske
Senior Managing Director | Joint Head - North America
Temasek International
 
Roberto Vitón
Founder & Managing Director
Valoral Advisors
 
Jennifer Wainwright
Chief Executive Officer
Aux Venture
 
Antonio Wever
Partner
Patria Investments
 
Mark White
Head of Real Assets
Albourne Partners
 
Michael Whitehead
Sector Head of Food, Beverages & Agribusiness
ANZ Bank
 
Craig Wichner
Managing Partner
Farmland LP
 
Brandon J. Zick
Director of Acquisitions & Portfolio Management
Ceres Partners