Steve Forbes Forbes Media Chairman and Editor-in-Chief The company’s flagship publication, Forbes, is the nation’s leading business magazine, with a circulation of more than 900,000. Forbes combined with Forbes Asia, Forbes Europe, and the company’s licensee editions together reach a worldwide audience of more than 5 million readers. Forbes.com has become one of the world’s most influential websites, with more…
Governor Kim Reynolds State of Iowa Governor Governor Kim Reynolds, a former state senator and county treasurer, serves as Iowa’s 43rd Governor. Prior to taking office on May 24, 2017, she served as Iowa’s 45th lt. governor from 2011-2017. Gov. Reynolds truly understands the importance of fiscal responsibility, job creation, education, and technology. Gov. Reynolds…
Ewa Kozicz Anthelion Capital Ewa Kozicz has approximately 20 years of investment experience across many sectors and geographies with a significant history of investing in agriculture globally. Mrs. Kozicz has recently resigned from BlackRock to start a new investment platform, Anthelion Capital, focused on the theme of Sustainability in the Agriculture, Energy and Transportation sectors….
Dr. Dan U. Thomson Dr. Dan U. Thomson is a third generation bovine veterinarian from Clearfield, IA. Dr. Thomson received his BS in Animal Science in 1990 and DVM from Iowa State University 2000. Dr. Thomson completed a MS in Ruminant Nutrition from South Dakota State University and a PhD in Ruminant Nutrition from Texas…
Bill Adamowski Startup Factory President Bill Adamowski is President of the Startup Factory. The Startup Factory is one of the top entrepreneurial centers in the country focused on taking Ag Tech and Engineering based companies to market. Bill has a unique background having been both a successful serial entrepreneur and also a C-level executive at…
Dan Dawes AgriNovus Indiana Senior Director of Strategy & Innovation Dan Dawes serves as Senior Director of Strategy and Innovation for AgriNovus Indiana, an initiative focusing on advancing innovation in the food and agriculture industry for the State of Indiana. In this role, he leads the efforts of building an agbiosciences entrepreneurial ecosystem and serves…
Vijay Harrell TradeLanes, Inc Chief Executive Officer Serial entrepreneur. Self-taught software engineer. Software engineering experience at Zynga, KIXEYE, Zipongo, RidePal. At RidePal he designed, developed and launched an On-Demand Transportation API layer in 6 weeks, from scratch. At KIXEYE, built an analytics platform that scaled to processing 8 billion events per day. This automated player…
Kevin Kimle Iowa State University Rastetter Chair of Agricultural Entrepreneurship Kevin Kimle currently serves as the Rastetter Chair of Agricultural Entrepreneurship at Iowa State University, Director of the Agricultural Entrepreneurship Initiative, and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics. Kimle’s work includes development and delivery of entrepreneurship curriculum and programs in the College of Agriculture…
Dean Didato Innova Ag Innovation Fund IV Partner Dean Didato is a partner with Innova Memphis, with primary responsibility of managing the Innova Ag Innovation Fund IV. Didato has consulted with Innova since 2009 on several due diligence projects focused on qualifying new technologies, patents, competition, and market acceptance. Having spent the last eight years…
David Edwards automed Founder / Chief Operation Officer With a 21-year career in product development and commercialization, David has worked with some of the largest and innovative companies in the world. In industries such as aquaculture, rail, mining and manufacturing, David has developed skills in engineering and business, having designed and managed projects in mechanical,…
