Jeff spent a 30-year career with Cargill incorporated holding a number of trading and leadership positions. His experience includes product line management of their physical spring, soft white, and soft red winter wheat as well as the head of export trading winter wheat. Jeff worked as a project team leader in the internal consulting group executing mergers and acquisitions and strategy. He became the CEO of Renessen, a joint venture between Cargill and Monsanto in the biotech and processing space. He was the head of trading and risk management for the refined oils business in North and South America. In addition to being the head of trading for Cargills aquaculture business Jeff was a membership of the leadership team of the business. Finally, Jeff was the head of risk and trading for Cargill’s feed business in Central and South America.

In addition to Jeff's corporate experience, he owns and operates farms in Ohio and Minnesota. His farms produce corn, soybeans, hay.

B.S. The Ohio State University Agriculture Economics; MBA University of Minnesota, Carlson School