Meet the Growers Edge Leadership Team

Dan Cosgrove

Chief Executive Officer

Dan is a visionary business leader and deal maker. With his help, Growers Edge successfully completed a Series B fundraising round, raising $40+ million from investors S2G, Cox Enterprises, Bunge, Skyline Global Partners, Finistere Ventures and iSelect Fund. Dan coined the hashtag #fintechforfarmers, describing his vision of building financial technology tools and solutions that help farmers adopt new technologies and access capital. Dan joined Growers Edge in 2019 after more than twenty years in the agriculture industry with Corteva Agriscience and Pioneer Hi-Bred, International, Inc. He was responsible for facilitating an innovative joint venture reorganization in China, as well as multiple mergers, acquisitions, and venture and fund investments. Dan is an active venture partner with Radicle Growth. He’s also deeply involved with Central Iowa’s startup tech scene as a mentor for TechStars and a member of the Iowa Department of Economic Development’s Iowa Innovation Council.

Hollie Bunn

Chief Lending Officer and EVP

As Executive Vice President and Chief Lending Officer, Hollie Bunn has been the architect of the company’s embedded financial software and services product. With Hollie’s leadership, her growing team has built a revolutionary platform for the ag industry while furthering the company’s mission to help the ag industry adapt and thrive. Bunn is an enthusiastic 30-year veteran of the ag finance industry in the Midwest, having been an instrumental leader at Farm Credit, where she held various positions, including Vice President of Sales Strategy and Regional Vice President. She is a proud proponent of Women in Ag and serves and supports local 4-H, FFA and honeybee clubs. Hollie’s energy is both infectious and boundless. When she’s not meeting with her team or with funders or current and future partners, she’s active hiking, building a new home on her family’s farmstead, and managing several thousand honeybees in southwestern Ohio.

Ahraz Husain

Vice President of Data

Ahraz Husain leads the company’s Data team in building the data and analytics modeling we use to design our industry-leading solutions for ag retailers and their customers. Ahraz started his professional career at Corteva Agriscience in Johnston, Iowa, where he focused on Computational Agronomy with the company's Digital Solutions platform. He also led various corporate transition efforts across Data and Analytics during his 6-year tenure. In his free time, Ahraz enjoys traveling, volunteering with multiple organizations in the Data and Analytics domain and mentoring startups.

Jackie Mosier

Vice President of Mortgage Lending

Jackie Mosier brought over 15 years of experience in the ag financing industry to Growers Edge as the Vice President of Mortgage Lending. Mosier will be working with the lending team to help Growers Edge build a digital mortgage platform that makes farmland valuation simple, online and instant by providing real-time data and transparency for farmers, investors and real estate professionals. Jackie has held a variety of leadership positions at Farm Credit Mid-America and First Financial Bank and Rabo AgriFinance. Most recently she was with Conterra Ag Capital.

Jim Lowery

Vice President of Product

Jim Lowery is charged with developing the company’s technology and analytics teams. His expertise and leadership help bring new ideas and innovation to the products Growers Edge partners use to grow their businesses. Jim works to empower an ever-expanding group of software engineers, product managers and data science gurus tasked with bringing our products to life. He’s dedicated to developing a culture of agility, experimentation, and a commitment to deliver customer-centric products driven by modern engineering and development practices. Jim has an extensive background in product engineering, development and training after 30+ years with Fortune 500 company Principal Financial Group. When he’s not hustling at our Johnston headquarters, he and his wife are busy chasing their teenage daughter and son, and raising 50 head of cattle on their farm near Pella, Iowa.

Todd Robran

Vice President of Sales

Todd Robran has worked as Regional Sales Manager for Growers Edge working with agricultural retailers and partners to help them implement warranty-backed Crop Plans. He currently leads the Commercial team as Vice President of Sales. Todd’s experience in both information technology and agriculture help him bring unique financial technology solutions to companies looking to expand adoption of new products, technology and sustainability practices.

Mary Johnson

Chief of Staff

Mary Johnson is a collaborative people leader with skills and expertise spanning multiple business practice areas, including People Operations strategy, communication, talent acquisition, employee engagement and client relationship management. Mary started her career at a nationwide Medication Therapy Management company, where she spent over five years serving as a senior member of the Provider Services team, responsible for managing and improving the performance of all national and regional chain pharmacy accounts. Mary led the development of the department’s communication strategy and efficient performance tracking, which led to increased participation from the pharmacy network and improved patient care. With her exceptional collaboration skills, Mary can communicate and work effectively with individuals at all levels of an organization.

Craig Hanken

Director of Communications and Public Relations

Craig Hanken is a strategic and innovative team player and leader with specific and relevant experience in marketing, communications and branding for Growers Edge. With more than 30 years of experience in comprehensive communications, marketing and branding, Craig leads internal and external creatives for all integrated branding and marketing and internal and external communications initiatives across all Growers Edge products. Throughout his career, Craig has advised the likes of Pioneer, Kemin Industries, Better Homes and Gardens, Magazine Source and many others.

Omar Perez

Lending Relationship Director

Omar Perez is the Lending Relationship Director at Growers Edge. Omar attended Shasta College in Redding, California, and studied business management before pursuing a long career in banking. Starting as a part-time teller, he successfully worked his way up and held various job titles, including Senior Banker, Branch Manager, Business Development Officer, and many more. Originally from Orland, a small farm town in California, Omar was a part of FFA and Youth Farming Services growing up. He is a third-generation farm worker and has helped on several family farms in Washington, Oregon and California.

Trevor Schauenberg

Independent Director, Board Chair

Josh McClung

Cox Enterprises

Steve Allocca

Funding Circle

Steve Goldberg

Finistere Ventures

Sachin Gupta

Skyline Global Partners

Sanjeev Krishnan

S2G Ventures

Dr. Sotirios Archontoulis

Iowa State University

Dr. Sotirios Archontoulis is an Associate Professor of Integrated Cropping Systems in the Department of Agronomy at Iowa State University. Dr. Archontoulis received his M.S. in Crop Science and Ph.D. in Plant Science from Wageningen University in Wageningen, Netherlands. He has over 250 peer-reviewed publications that led to over 3,300 citations. His research interests include predicting impacts, explaining causes, designing strategies to improve crop productivity, and using crop systems modeling to explain and predict crop productivity.

Dr. Gene Cheung

York University

Dr. Gene Cheung is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at York University in Toronto, Canada. Dr. Cheung received both an M.S. and Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, has been a Senior Researcher for Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Japan for nearly ten years and has over 250 peer-reviewed publications that led to over 5,500 citations. His research interests include machine learning, graph signal processing, and image processing.

Dr. Ryan Huffman

Iowa State University

Dr. Ryan Huffman is an expert in the data field. He has an M.S. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and received a Ph.D. in Agronomy and Crop Science from Iowa State University. He has experience leading data science teams in the agricultural industry and utilizing cloud-based computing platforms to extract proprietary crop yield prediction algorithms. Huffman is currently the Digital Agronomy Research Manager at Iowa State University.

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Dan Cosgrove

Hollie Bunn

Ahraz Husain

Jackie Mosier

Jim Lowery

Todd Robran

Mary Johnson

Craig Hanken

Omar Perez

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Trevor Schauenberg

Josh McClung

Steve Allocca

Steve Goldberg

Sachin Gupta

Sanjeev Krishnan

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Dr. Sotirios Archontoulis

Dr. Gene Cheung

Dr. Ryan Huffman

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