AgSolutions Global (ASG) is a start-up company conceived in 2011 and incorporated in the US in 2015. 2016 was a year of change and growth for ASG with the formation of KV Agro Solutions Global Pvt. Ltd, an Indian company headquartered in Mumbai. Our partnership with Khimji Visram & Sons (KVS) has proven invaluable in establishing ASG in India. KVS is an old and well known diversified family agribusiness firm with extensive knowledge of the Indian agriculture market.

Director of marketing for Jernigan Commodities Global (JCG), an agriculture trading and service company based in the US with JV offices in Australia and Brazil. JCG has two core business units: Cotton Direct and AgSolutions. Key to JCG’s success over the years has been fostering relationships with contacts in the global agribusiness sector and honing in on the primary producing and exporting markets, like Australia, India, Brazil and China. By cultivating strategic relationships worldwide, JCG has become a trusted partner in providing marketing, procurement, trading, risk management, supply chain, and finance solutions to producers and consumers of raw cotton. First developed in Australia in 2011 and later expanded into Brazil, the Cotton Direct program is a new business model linking large cotton growers directly with global fashion brands, retailers, and key Asian textile mills. Cotton Direct was designed to eliminate many of the inefficiencies from the current cotton supply chain, create process and financial transparency for growers and mills, remove adversarial middlemen from the equation, and create a strategic alliance between growers and consumers. AgSolutions has the global distribution rights for a line of agriculture equipment that will be sold in Australia, India and Brazil. Our goal is to develop a global "Rep Firm" model built around a technology-driven portfolio of agriculture equipment and inputs. We will identify those small to medium size manufacturers looking for cost-effective ways to move their products into the export markets, i.e. US companies wanting to go global or international firms interested in access to the US agriculture market.

Originating in February 2001, GLOBECOT was a startup consulting and communications firm serving the global fiber and textile industries. FCStone, LLC bought GLOBECOT in 2008. International Assets Holding Company bought FCStone in 2009 (creating INTL FCStone Inc.).Managed international sales, the marketing of GLOBECOT News Network, economic research studies, and handled relations with the company’s largest client, Bayer Crop Science. As the global marketing arm for a Bayer cottonseed, FiberMax, our team focused marketing efforts for the seed in India, Pakistan, South Korea and China. By strategically branding FiberMax and aggressively promoting it at the mill level, the US cotton crop grew rapidly from 3% to over 35%. Instrumental in the development and implementation of the company’s most successful promotional program: the FiberMax Cotton Summit. The two-day summits were held internationally and targeted at top textile mill executives in the 12 major textile-producing countries. Significantly reduced Bayer’s overhead costs by negotiating co-sponsorships with various domestic and international members of the textile supply chain. Overtime, I added a networking component (3-4 dinner meetings annually) that connected mill owners in key markets and improved industry relations.