VENTURA, Calif., Oct. 18, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- We at Centaur
Analytics are pleased to announce that Richard Kottmeyer has joined our team as Vice
President. Richard will be managing our North America market and advising on sales,
marketing, strategy and capital markets.
Prior to joining Centaur, Richard had led the five largest
agriculture-related professional service practices: Accenture, IBM,
KPMG, Lehman, Luxoft, and Rothschild, with expertise spanning
technology, strategy consulting, turnarounds, mergers and
acquisitions, private equity and capital markets, and analytics.
Richard is a celebrated strategist and futurist, helping companies
understand Food2040 opportunities and challenges across the
globe.
Richard also serves on multiple industry think tanks such as
Farm Foundation, and writes for various U.S. farm publishers. He
has also served as a G8 delegate, World Bank keynote speaker, and
Presidential Advisor on global food security, the future of food,
technology's role in meeting the Food2040 challenge, and exports.
Richard was part of the original U.S.-China agriculture and trade delegation led by
Secretary Hank Paulson and then Vice
President of China, Xi Jinping. He
also co-launched Food2040 with the USDA - the seminal document on
the opportunities presented by the growing population and wealth
for food and agriculture that is fundamental to Chinese and
Japanese food security policies. Richard has over 100 citations and
keynote speeches addressing over a dozen distinct sectors in the
agriculture and food industry, and has won multiple agricultural
Innovator of the Year awards in sectors ranging from poultry to
food ingredients to agricultural and food marketing.
Well-known in the Ag Tech space, Richard has written many of the
original farmer services strategies for the largest global
precision farming divisions within the top agribusiness and
equipment firms. He has also served as a consultant and board
member at over a dozen successful early stage Ag Tech ventures, as
well as an advisor for multiple governments on Ag Tech and Clean
Tech, including the United
Kingdom, USA, Israel, Saudi
Arabia, Brazil, and
multiple multinationals such as the United Nations, InterAmerican
Bank, African Union, and the World Bank.
Outside of the agricultural space, Richard had led a key
military and Homeland Security laboratory tied to revamping
intelligence, analytics, and sensors.
"We couldn't be happier to have such a world class talent in the
future of agriculture and food join our staff, especially one who
has such a long history of helping governments and industry leaders
find quality Ag Tech," says Avi
Reichental, Executive Chairman of Centaur Analytics. "Few
people have as much trust in the industry to spot the best in class
technologies for farm to fork industries."
"Before getting to know Centaur, I've never been tempted to
leave my position representing multiple clients to work for a
single Ag Tech player," says Richard. "I was looking for a
technology that really could be the first unicorn in the space.
Centaur cleverly focuses on post-harvest condition monitoring,
which is a huge addressable market, and by partnering with the top
universities, it ensures that it produces the best analytics in
each crop it serves through sensors, software, and analytic
solutions. I was blown away when I learned that Centaur won the
prestigious TechCrunch competition over technologies related to
automated vehicles, medical devices, and power management. No other
Ag Tech company has ever been awarded so many technology industry
accolades."
Centaur is the first full-stack IoT provider of solutions
that enhances the quality and safety of stored agricultural
products. Our proprietary wireless sensors and cognitive predictive
and prescriptive cloud analytics enable precision fumigation and
real-time monitoring of stored product condition. Our mission is to
dramatically reduce the estimated $1
trillion worth of wasted crops annually from farm to shelf.
For more information, visit www.centaur.ag.
Media Contact:
Kate Dennis
603-866-0167
kate@xponentialworks.com
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