Save the date October 8, 2024 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM (CDT)
Event Details Join AgLaunch and Ag Ventures Alliance in the next webinar from the AgTech Innovation Connection Series. On October 8th at 10am CT, we will be welcoming Lesa Mitchell, General Manager at High Alpha Innovation. Lesa will lead a panel discussion on "How to Manage a Board". She will be joined by entrepreneurs and companies focused on board management. We hope you can join us!
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Speakers
Lesa Mitchell General Manager, Go-to-Market at High Alpha Innovation Lesa Mitchell is the General Manager of Go-to-Market at High Alpha Innovation. She began her career in a pharmaceutical company experiencing massive growth, giving her a front-row seat to multiple mergers and acquisitions and eventually leading her to become an entrepreneur. Before joining HAI, Lesa charted the course for economic growth in philanthropy and worked with hundreds of entrepreneurs at Techstars. Through these experiences, she realized that founders with access to advantages from day one move faster toward growth. In 2022, Lesa joined High Alpha Innovation to help catalyze these advantages and support the scale of the new companies they launch. Lesa loves the opportunity to shape new companies with their partners, hiring founding teams and supporting their growth. Initially, the concept of "hiring" founders was foreign to her, but it has now become the absolute best part of her role on the Go-to-Market (GTM) team. Lesa believes her special skill is finding people doing amazing work in vastly different fields and maintaining contact with them forever, a testament to her ability to build and nurture valuable connections. Lesa Mitchell is a Managing Director, supporting High Alpha Innovation’s growing portfolio of founders to reach scale. Lesa has been an entrepreneur, corp executive and early stage investor for over twenty years. She was a General Manager and MD for Techstars NA, former executive at the Kauffman Foundation (3B assets) and former executive in the pharmaceutical industry. Her passion is creating opportunities for our founders and being bold in execution. Lesa a graduate of the University of Kansas and is based in Kansas City.
Michael Ott Founding CEO and Board Member of Rantizo
Michael Ott Founding CEO and Board Member of Rantizo Michael Ott is the Founding CEO and Board Member at Rantizo, a precision ag technology company headquartered in Iowa City. Rantizo is the nation's largest drone application company, with operations in 35 states. Michael was formerly CEO of Cquesta, a gene editing company specializing in deep roots. Before Rantizo, Michael worked in corporate venture capital backed by Monsanto, Novozymes and Bunge, where he invented a patented technology that delivers a tiny amount of nitrogen to a rice seed as it grows. Michael has a Master's degree in Chemistry from the University of Iowa and two decades worth of experience in finance and agriculture. He is an author on five patent applications and has raised over $180 million in investments over the course of his career. Michael was named PrecisionAg 2021 Entrepreneur of the Year.
Gary Wohlfeill Human in Charge Figuring Stuff Out at Zeck.app Gary Wohlfeill is a passionate business and creative leader with a proven track record in producing quantifiable results through marketing, brand, and sales programs. Currently at Zeck.app, he excels in building exciting brands and driving user engagement using innovative marketing strategies. With vast experience in e-commerce, SaaS, multi-channel retail, and lifestyle brands, Gary is skilled in multi-channel attribution and showcasing revenue from marketing efforts. His strategic thinking and creative approach play a pivotal role in shaping Zeck.app's brand voice and driving its growth in a competitive market. Valued contributor to product / company vision and strategy, working directly with C-suite officers and/or CEO. History of skilled collaboration with sales, engineering, buying, and customer service teams.
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