Fourth generation California farmer, Aubrey Bettencourt is the President & CEO of the Almond Alliance of California, the trade association for the almond industry and community, representing and advocating for the 7,600 American almond farms growing 90% of the world almonds. Aubrey also has an incredible background in public policy and natural resources.
Read MoreListen on Apple Podcasts or Everywhere Else Helena Lumme is the President and Co-Founder of Hälsa Foods, a CPG company that produces oat milk products, focusing on clean ingredients, clean processing, and clean labels. Helena joins to share more about her journey founding the company and optimizing their marketing and supply chain. Helena is joined by Eric Ziehm,…
Read MoreSarah Shaw is the Director of Strategy and Isha Joshi is the Director of Product Development for KitchenTown, a scale-up facility in San Mateo, CA that gives food startups access to a commercial kitchen, product innovation lab, direct to consumer warehouse, brand partnerships program, and thriving community of makers.
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Jennifer Barney is the founder of Barney Butter Almond Butter and previously led Innovation for a $700mm CPG category leader. She is an advisor and mentor to startup CPG brands and ag leaders entering the value added space. Jennifer joins us to share more about her journey founding, scaling, and exiting a CPG brand. She also dives into the current landscape of ag and CPG and her current work at 3rd & Broadway. Tune in!
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Kristy Lewis is the founder and CEO of Quinn Snacks, a CPG company reimagining classic snacks by bringing real ingredients and transparency back to the snacks you love. Kristy joins the podcast to tell us about the founding story, Quinn’s focus on their farmer-partners, their approach to regenerative ag, how they have scaled, and much, much more. Tune in!
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Julie Kunen is the Director of Sustainability at Oatly, the world’s original and largest oat drink company. Julie’s background is in creating and delivering sustainability programs and motivating stakeholders to deliver results. She joins us to dig deep on what sustainability means at Oatly and how they are driving towards continued improvement.
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Rhonda Bassett-Spiers is the President and CEO of iTradeNetwork, the leader in perishables supply chain management for 20 years with a powerful network of over 8,000 food and beverage trading partners. Its end-to-end supply chain software suite simplifies the complexities that occur at all waypoints of the food and perishables supply chain. Rhonda has 25+ years of Silicon Valley technology company experience in financial services and supply chain solutions. She joins us to talk through how she has scaled the company and how they have evolved the business through COVID as partners are more concerned than ever with supply chain resiliency. Tune in!
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Stacy Kimmel, PhD, is the Vice President of R&D at AeroFarms, an indoor farming company and Certified B Corporation that uses the latest breakthroughs in vertical farming, artificial intelligence and plant biology to grow and distribute fresh produce locally and globally.
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Vonnie Estes is the Vice President of Technology of the Produce Marketing Association. Vonnie joins us for the second time to give some updates and insights into some hot topics within agriculture. We talk through the recent merger of PMA and United Fresh, the latest in carbon markets, agtech exits including SPAC’s, indoor farming, and seeing a Rivian in the wild! This episode has it all.
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Jayce Hafner (CEO) and Sami Tellatin (COO) are the co-founders of FarmRaise, a digital platform that equips producers with financial resources to build vital farming communities that are profitable, equitable, and ecologically resilient. Their simplified farm funding app applies farmers for major USDA cost-share programs in less than 20 minutes. They also track local and state funding programs as they open throughout the year and provide 1:1 support to help farms unlock more capital.
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