Christopher Lehner Email & Phone Number

Kansas City, MO, US

Kansas CITY Board OF Trade

• Specialist in agricultural hedging and trading
• Develop specific trading recommendations for each client's risk tolerance and market knowledge.
• Morning grain report and in depth weekly commentary on barchart.com, insidefutures.com, archerfinancials.com, Weekly livestock commentary on agriview.com

Livestock and agricultural hedge broker and analyst. Specializing in risk management for producers and users. Editorial services and commentary for Agriview News, Madison Farm Market Report. Guest speaker area colleges, state ag associations.

BROKERAGE DIVISION MANAGER Carry out the hedging and trading transactions for over 100 active commodity accounts. Solicit prospective accounts. Implement risk management strategies with futures, options, forward contracting depending on clients personal needs and risk tolerance. Speaker at company seminars, marketing clubs. Contributed analysis and written.

Provide risk management utilizing futures and/or options for producers and users of grain and livestock to enhance cash marketing, basis trading, forward contracting, and marketing programs for clients in US and Canada. Detailed technical and fundamental analysis. Primary concentration on grains and livestock and relationship to energy and currency.

BROKER Major emphasis on risk management using commodity futures, options, cash marketing and combinations to suit needs and experience levels for each account. Extensive analysis using fundamental and technical tools. Contributed editorials for electronic commentary, Internet and satellite communications. Develop client list through company leads.

Management responsibilities included: coordinating and developing hedging strategies utilizing futures, options and cash programs for individual, corporate accounts, cooperative members and packer hedges in the United States and Canada. Managed and supervised four branch offices. Conducted branch office yearly audits, continuing education and coordinated.

Managed Michigan and Ohio computer/software division for Pioneer Hi-Bred. Increased sales division from 8th place (last) to 2nd within first year. In 1989 achieved Top Sales Award for personal production. Recruited, supervised and conducted training for sales representatives and support staff. Transferred to research and development division.

Established the first branch office for PHI Marketing Services. Responsible for sales and marketing of PHI products. Emphasis on risk management and hedging. Conducted extensive survey for the needs of customers and ways to work within parent company goals.