Meet the Growers Edge Leadership Team

Hollie Bunn

Interim Chief Executive Officer

Hollie Bunn is the Interim Chief Executive Officer at Growers Edge. She previously served as the Executive Vice President and Chief Lending Officer, and 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.

Billy Rose

Founder, Director, Chief Innovator

Billy Rose is the founder, Director and Chief Innovator at Growers Edge. He is a proven entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience in the crop insurance, ag technology and lending industry. His vision and big-picture understanding of agriculture, technology, lending, financial services, and the crop insurance industry have resulted in successful ventures beneficial to America's farmers and the agricultural industry. Rose successfully founded and exited three different companies, including Ag1 (DTN), Crop1 Insurance (Farm Bureau Mutual), and Crop Pro Insurance (AmTrust Financial). He also received the honor of Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year award for Iowa & Nebraska.

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.

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.

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 Lending. Mosier will be working with the lending team to help Growers Edge deliver a digital mortgage program that make it easier for farmers to access capital. 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.

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

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Hollie Bunn

Billy Rose

Ahraz Husain

Todd Robran

Mary Johnson

Craig Hanken

Jackie Mosier

Omar Perez

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Trevor Schauenberg

Josh McClung

Steve Allocca

Steve Goldberg

Sachin Gupta

Sanjeev Krishnan

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