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Getting Ahead of
Red Blotch
Calculator: The Economics of Ineffective Red Blotch Mitigation
The economic impact of a 20 acre field’s shortened productive lifespan
due to ineffective Red Blotch mitigation
Michelle has been building young companies in Silicon Valley for twenty-five years. She's helped launch seven companies, four of which became publicly traded, and has completed over $540M in transactions with angel, seed, venture, private equity and institutional investors in the US, Europe and Australia. She co-founded an early startup accelerator, in partnership with McKinsey & Co., in 1999; and is a founding partner in the Tiburon family of seed funds, based in Munich, Germany. Michelle is the granddaughter of an Illinois farming family.
Gerry has been at the forefront of remote sensing and hyperspectral analytics for more than 30 years. His experience includes intelligence requirements, and the design and implementation of systems and algorithms to collect, exploit, and report against those requirements from multi-source data; with special emphasis on environmental phenomenology. For an early AgTech remote sensing startup, he managed the development and engineering team for airborne imagery collection, processing and product development. Gerry has taught remote sensing at the graduate level at both Virginia Tech and SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry (ESF).
Paul has over 33 years of innovative agronomic experience, guiding disease and fertility management for marquee growers of high value crops. Paul has developed unique, custom-blend fertilizer formulations that support plant immune function and vigor for disease resistance or symptom mitigation in permanent crops. Paul is also a third generation winemaker.
Joan has been working on government and commercial image data capture, processing, and dissemination systems her entire career. She has held roles as hardware engineer, systems engineer, program manager, corporate R&D manager, and as a regional director for ASPRS. She’s worked on GPS III, GOES East and West, JWST and other cutting edge data collection systems. Joan holds a Bachelor of Science in Imaging Science, RIT, Rochester NY, with certifications in GIS, six sigma and supply chain management.
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