Argus Sustainable Fertilizer Americas

Hunter currently serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Phospholutions, Inc. He graduated from Pennsylvania State University with a BSc in Plant Sciences, where he was recognised as Top Entrepreneur at the university. He sits on the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Advisory Board for the College of Agricultural Sciences at Penn State University. Swisher founded Phospholutions, Inc. in 2016 to develop and commercialise solutions to improve the efficiency of global phosphorus use. Phospholutions, Inc. is headquartered in State College, PA. Read less

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Landon has been the Chief Science Officer for Nano-Yield for the past eight years. He is the inventor on several Nano-Yield patents and has overseen the trialling and development of the Nano-Yield Nanoliquid products. Prior to working for Nano-Yield, Landon was the data manager on a $20 million USDA sustainable corn grant based at Iowa State University. Read less

Kuide (“Kwey-duh”) Qin currently works for Verdesian Life Sciences in Cary, North Carolina as the Chief Science Officer. At Verdesian, he leads R&D, regulatory, and new product development for nutrient use efficiency technologies including biostimulants and plant associated microbiomes to make farming more efficient and more sustainable. Prior to Verdesian, Kuide held scientist and leadership roles at Dow AgroSciences, and at Bayer Crop Science. Kuide graduated from University of Florida with a PhD specializing in colloid and surface chemistry. He has strong interest and ~20 years of experience in the research and development in agricultural inputs that contribute to sustainable agriculture and modern farming. Read less

Gregory Bernardi is President of London Forfaiting Americas Inc (LFA) New York (wholly owned by London Forfaiting Company Ltd. and a member of the FIMBank Group). He joined LFA in 1994 and was appointed President in 2002. Greg has specialized in Trade Finance since 1990. In addition to Forfaiting, Greg is well versed in International Factoring, EXIMBank Finance, Back to Back L/C facilities and Structured Trade Finance. His primary responsibility is overseeing London Forfaiting Americas North American origination efforts. Greg has had the pleasure of marketing trade finance services to importers and exporters in the Americas for the past twenty-nine years. Greg is a past three term president of the International Trade and Forfaiting Association (ITFA). He is certified by the FCIB and ICTF as an International Credit Professional. Greg holds a M.B.A. from Saint John’s University, New York. Read less

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Matt Simpson is the CEO of Brazil Potash. Matt has taken Brazil Potash from the resource exploration stage to a near fully construction-ready state with key permitting, technical and EISA studies largely completed. From 2002 to 2010, Matt worked for the Iron Ore Company of Canada, a subsidiary of Rio Tinto where he held several senior management roles including Mine General Manager where he managed 650 employees and an annual budget of ~US$300M to break every historic production record during his tenure. Prior to joining IOC, Matt worked as a process engineer for Hatch Ltd. designing and constructing metallurgical refineries globally. Read less