David Chan: Farmland Investing, Climate, and Regenerative Agriculture
AgGrad Podcast
English - February 19, 2021 04:34 - 16 minutes - 22.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsCareers Business Education Courses agriculture agriculturecareers agriculturejobs Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
David Chan is currently the Chief Operating Officer of FarmTogether - a technology-enabled farmland investment platform that provides investors with direct access to farmland as an asset class. With a diverse team under its name and over 70 years of combined experience in agribusiness, investments, and climatology, they carefully curate farmland properties that they themselves would invest in for their investors. Farm land is an asset class that is uncorrelated with other major asset classes making it unique.
As uncertain as 2020 has been, being a new startup has enabled FarmTogether to be agile and nimble, already accustomed to working remote and navigating with the times. David’s primary role as the COO is to serve as a thought partner and support to CEO and solo-founder Artem Milinchuk. Located on opposite coasts, they are able to connect with hotspots on each coast to advance FarmTogether’s network.
The COO is also required to be a Jack-of-all-trades and David’s tasks include a little bit of everything, such as:
Investment underwriting with members of the investment teamSales and MarketingDistribution initiativesHuman ResourcesAccountingStrategic InitiativesSyndicated crowd-funding management“Given these unprecedented and trying times [during the novel-coronavirus pandemic], I can’t imagine operating a growing business alone in this environment,” says David about the close-knit team culture of FarmTogether. “It’s extremely daunting and very lonely. I think it’s great that we have a great team that works together and that we see each other as equal partners.”
If you are interested in learning more about farmland and agtech investing, check out the free resources on www.FarmTogether.com. As the business continues to grow and expand with the growing carbon efforts, their team will also grow and expand. Careers and opportunities are listed on their website.
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