AgGateway Announces 2021 Leadership and Meeting Dates; Releases Annual Report, “Create, Engage, Grow”

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AgGateway Announces 2021 Leadership and Meeting Dates; Releases Annual Report, “Create, Engage, Grow”

By AgGateway Marketing Communications Director Susan Ruland

AgGateway has announced its 2021 leadership and meeting dates, and released its Annual Report, entitled “Create, Engage, Grow”. AgGateway is a non-profit organization that helps companies reduce errors in procurement, inventory, sales and reporting; achieve interoperability among myriad hardware and software systems; and leverage global digital resources and business relationships to enhance productivity, traceability and sustainability.

“We are excited about the expansive experience of our 2021 leadership,” said AgGateway President and CEO Wendy Smith. “This includes the continuing contributions of those providing ongoing service and the new perspective of incoming members, which will help our members ‘create, engage and grow’ in the months ahead.”

The organization’s 2020 Annual Report gives an overview of AgGateway's mission, plans, leadership and current activities. Find it on the home page at www.AgGateway.org.

In addition, AgGateway announced that its 2021 Mid-Year Meeting will be held June 14-16 at Prairie Meadows in Altoona, Iowa, USA; and its 2021 Annual Conference will be held November 8-10 at the Hilton Nashville Downtown, Nashville, Tenn., USA.


Here is the 2021 leadership:


2021 Board of Directors

Chair: Adriano Becker, South America PS&T/Digital Product Marketing, CNH Industrial

Past Chair: Jeremy W. Wilson, Sr VP Field Data Solutions, EFC Systems

Treasurer: Karen Thomas, VP Information Systems, Southern States Cooperative

Teddy Bekele, Chief Technology Officer, WinField United

Jeff Bradshaw, Chief Technology Officer, Proagrica

Scott Charbo, VP IT, Nutrien Ag Solutions

Jacob Crow, Director, IT Portfolio, GROWMARK

Doug Farrington, Regional Digital Officer, BASF

Bruno Albuquerque Lucio, Sales & Channel Development LATAM, Topcon

Feroz Sheikh, Global Head of Digital Product Engineering, Syngenta

Wendy Smith, President & CEO, AgGateway


2021 Steering Committee – North America

Chair: Ann Vande Lune, Agronomy Administrator, Key Cooperative

Vice-Chair: Michael Carrabine, CIO, International Raw Materials

Dennis Daggett, President, Enterprise Ag Strategies

Dan DiMicco, Global Head, Seed & Traits Informatics, BASF

Stephanie Frazier, EDI Subject Matter Expert, Corteva

Phil Kubesh, Director of IT, Vita Plus

Scott Nieman, Expert Enterprise Architect, Land O’ Lakes

Dan Willey, CIO, Wilbur Ellis

Brent Kemp, North America Regional Director, AgGateway


2021 Steering Committee – Europe

Chair: Feroz Sheikh, Global Head of Digital Product Engineering, Syngenta

Gilles Begue, Product Manager Data & Cloud, SMAG

Joachim Crombez, Territory Manager, Proagrica

Paul Frost, IT Director, Frontier Agriculture Ltd

Patrick Honcoop, Head of Digital Business Development, 365FarmNet

Udo Kaempf, Bioinformatics Manager, Global Technology Management, BASF SE

John Lord, Ag Sales Manager EMEA, DTN

Francesco Martire, Manager IoT Platform Integration, Tierra-Topcon

Jens Moeller, General Management, Agrirouter

Andrew Olliver, Product Manager - Precision Farming & ISOBUS, CNH Industrial

Gaelle Cheruy Pottiau, Project Director, Agro EDI Europe

Bernhard Schmitz, Director, EME Fuse & Commercial Services, AGCO Corp

Fritz Schuster, Managing Director, Lexagri

Paul Thomas, Business Development Manager, Muddy Boots

Conny Graumans, Europe Regional Director, AgGateway


2021 Steering Committee – Latin America

Bruno Albuquerque Lucio, Sales & Channel Development LATAM, Topcon

Felipe Santos, Precision Ag Tech Product Marketing & Planning – LATAM, John Deere

Warsis Slywitch, Principal/Owner, Tecgraf

Paulo Vianna, Head of Business Development, Syngenta Digital

Jose Loyola, Latin America Regional Director, AgGateway


For more information on how to be involved in AgGateway leadership, contact Member.Services@AgGateway.org or (+1) 866-251-8618.