The VISION Conference

Kenneth S. Zuckerberg AIF® AFA®

Executive Director, Senior Analyst, Food & Agribusiness Research & Advisory, Rabobank

Ken Zuckerberg is a Senior Analyst in Rabobank’s Food & Agribusiness Research and Advisory (FAR) department, located in New York, U.S. He focuses on researching and advising companies in the North American Farm Inputs (AgChem, Equipment, Farming, Fertilizer, Seed) and AgTech sectors. Prior to joining Rabobank, Ken was a research analyst with various Wall Street investment firms, including Train Babcock Advisors, Lazard Asset Management, Keefe Bruyette and Woods and Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, where he gained relevant experience covering various financial services, industry equipment, and agricultural companies. Ken holds a Graduate Certificate in Investment Strategy and Portfolio Management from the Wharton School, has completed executive education programs at Harvard Business School and Cornell University, and received a Bachelor of Science in Finance from the University of South Florida. He is also an Accredited Investment Fiduciary and Accredited Financial Analyst.

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Gary Fitzgerald

Chairman/CEO, Meister Media Worldwide

Gary T. Fitzgerald is Chairman and CEO, Meister Media Worldwide, parent company of PrecisionAg Media headquartered in Willoughby, Ohio, USA. Meister Media, founded in 1932, provides information and networking opportunities to global markets including fruits and citrus, vegetables, cotton, ornamental horticulture, precision agriculture, plant protection, and Latin American agriculture. Gary joined Meister in 1979 and held several sales, operations, and executive management positions leading to his current role in 2006. He is past president of the Agricultural Publishers Association and past chair and current board member of Connectiv: The Business Information Association. Gary holds a B.A. in Economics from Washington and Lee University and an MM in Marketing and Finance from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

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Paul Schrimpf

Executive Editor, Agribusiness Group, Meister Media Worldwide

Paul Schrimpf, an award-winning journalist, has been a professional trade journalist for more than 20 years and has worked in the agriculture market since 1998. As executive editor for the Agribusiness Media Group at Meister Media Worldwide, Paul leads an editorial team covering the ag retail distribution channel under the CropLife^® brand, the ag technology sector through its PrecisionAg^® brand, and the global crop protection and plant health industry through the AgriBusiness Global^® brand. Paul holds his B.A. in Communication from Cleveland State University and is frequently asked to speak at meetings on technology in agriculture.

Founded in 1994 and acquired by Meister in 2000, the PrecisionAg brand includes a website at PrecisionAg.com, a bi-monthly magazine, a weekly e-newsletter, a variety of in-person events, and the PrecisionAg Institute. The Institute is a consortium of agriculture companies that is dedicated to facilitating the adoption of precision agriculture products and practices, and promoting the benefits of precision agriculture for improving profitability, sustainability, and efficiency in the farming operation.

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William Schmarzo

CTO Global Services, Dell EMC

Bill Schmarzo, author of “Big Data: Understanding How Data Powers Big Business” and “Big Data MBA: Driving Business Strategies with Data Science”, is responsible for setting the strategy and defining the Big Data service offerings and capabilities for EMC Global Services Big Data Practice. As the CTO for the Big Data Practice, he is responsible for working with organizations to help them identify where and how to start their big data journeys. He’s written several white papers, is an avid blogger and is a frequent speaker on the use of Big Data and data science to power the organization’s key business initiatives. He is a University of San Francisco School of Management (SOM) Executive Fellow where he teaches the “Big Data MBA” course. Bill was recently ranked as #4 Big Data Influencer by Onalytica.

Bill has over three decades of experience in data warehousing, BI and analytics. Bill authored EMC’s Vision Workshop methodology that links an organization’s strategic business initiatives with their supporting data and analytic requirements, and co-authored with Ralph Kimball a series of articles on analytic applications. Bill has served on The Data Warehouse Institute’s faculty as the head of the analytic applications curriculum.

Previously, Bill was the vice president of Analytics at Yahoo where he was responsible for the development of Yahoo’s Advertiser and Website analytics products, including the delivery of “actionable insights” through a holistic user experience. Before that, Bill oversaw the Analytic Applications business unit at Business Objects, including the development, marketing and sales of their industry-defining analytic applications.

Bill holds a masters degree in Business Administration from the University of Iowa and a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics, Computer Science and Business Administration from Coe College.

Recent blogs can be found at: infocus.emc.com/author/william_schmarzo
You can also follow Bill on twitter @schmarzo and LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/schmarzo.

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