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KEN AUER     
President and Chief Executive Officer, Farm Credit Council     

Ken Auer is the President and CEO of The Farm Credit Council. He joined the Council in 1984 and has been actively involved in every legislative effort of the Farm Credit System. He served as the Council's Executive Vice President for Government Affairs from 1990 to 1999.
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CARL M. CASALE    
President and Chief Executive Officer, CHS Inc.    

Carl Casale is president and chief executive officer of CHS Inc., a leading energy, grains and foods company and the nation’s largest member-owned cooperative.  He assumed his position with CHS in January 2011.  He previously was executive vice president and chief financial officer
for Monsanto Company.
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JASON DORSEY     
Chief Strategy Officer, the Center for Generational Kinetics   
 
Jason Dorsey is The Gen Y Guy®. He has been featured as a generational expert on 60 Minutes, 20/20, The Today Show, The View, The Early Show and many more. What makes Jason different is his view that generations are not a box, but powerful clues.
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MICHAEL J. DWYER     
Director of Global Policy Analysis, the Foreign Agricultural Service     

Mr. Dwyer is the Director of Global Policy Analysis with the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS), the primary international trade agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.  In this capacity, he is responsible for conducting and coordinating analyses on a wide variety of strategic issues that affect U.S. and world agricultural trade, including those that affect the emerging biofuels market.
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ROBERT (BOB) FRAZEE     
Chief Executive Officer, MidAtlantic Farm Credit, ACA     

Bob Frazee is the CEO of MidAtlantic Farm Credit, ACA. Headquartered in Westminster, Maryland, MidAtlantic has loans of over $2.1 billion to over 10,000 members in a territory that covers portions of the states of Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia. As CEO, he has led the organization through two successful mergers.
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GLEN HIEMSTRA    
Founder and Owner, Futurist.com   

Glen Hiemstra is the founder and owner of Futurist.com. Glen is dedicated to disseminating information about the future to assist individuals, organizations, and industries in effective strategic planning. 
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DR. DANNY KLINEFELTER     
Professor and Extension Economist, Texas AgriLife Extension and Texas A&M University     
 

Dr. Klinefelter is a Professor and Extension Economist with Texas AgriLife Extension and Texas A&M University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 1979, where he was a National Science Foundation Research Fellow.
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THERESA E. MCCABE     
President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Farm Credit Banks Funding Corporation  

Tracey McCabe is President and CEO of the Federal Farm Credit Banks Funding Corporation. The Funding Corporation is responsible for issuing, marketing and handling the Farm Credit System’s debt securities.
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DAVID MORGAN     
North American Region Director, Syngenta   

David Morgan has spent his entire career in agriculture. 
 
After obtaining bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Agricultural and Forestry Sciences from Oxford University, he joined DuPont in Research & Development in the United Kingdom.  Making the transition to commercial and country management roles, David worked for a number of companies that evolved through a series of acquisitions and mergers, including Schering Agriculture UK, AgrEvo UK & AgrEvo Canada. 
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GREGORY R. PAGE    
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Cargill Inc.  


Greg Page serves as chairman and chief executive officer of Cargill, Incorporated.  He was elected chairman of the board on Sept. 11, 2007, and CEO on June 1, 2007. He was elected to the Cargill Board of Directors in August 2000.
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CONGRESSMAN COLLIN C. PETERSON  
U.S. Representative, Minnesota 7th Congressional District  
 
Collin Peterson was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from the Seventh Congressional District of Minnesota in 1990. His primarily rural and agricultural district reaches from the Canadian border in the north, almost to the Iowa state line in the south; along Minnesota’s border with North and South Dakota. Peterson is Ranking Member of the House Committee on Agriculture, which has jurisdiction over a wide range of agriculture and rural development issues, including the Farm Bill, renewable energy, disaster assistance, nutrition, crop insurance, conservation, rural development, international trade, futures market regulation, animal and plant health, agricultural research, bioterrorism, forestry, and others.
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LEIGH PICCHETTI      
Senior Vice President, National Communications    

Leigh Picchetti is currently the senior vice president of national communications for the Farm Credit System. She is responsible for all aspects of public and media relations necessary for promoting a strong image of the national Farm Credit System to both internal and external constituents. 
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PETER RICCHIUTI     
Professor, Tulane University’s Freeman School of Business   

Peter Ricchiuti (Ri-Shooty) is the business school professor you wish you had back in college! He teaches courses on the financial markets at Tulane University’s Freeman School of Business. His insight and humor have twice made him the school’s top professor.
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DEAN UNGAR  
Executive Director, UBS Wealth Managment   

Dean Ungar is Executive Director at UBS Wealth Management Research.  Dean is a Chartered Financial Analyst and started his professional career with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York analyzing and reporting on the financial condition of banks.
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