Farmer's Business Network CEO and leadership

Charles is Co-Founder & VP of Product of Farmers Business Network (FBN), where he guides the development of the breakthrough farmer-to-farmer network. The FBN network is creating a digital farm economy for its over 21 m acres of member farms. By networking thousands of farms in the US & Canada, the FBN network helps farmers make better agronomic decisions, reduce input costs with e-commerce, and get premium prices for their crops through its global buyer network. Previously, Charles was a program manager at Google where he started and led product, investment and research initiatives in advanced energy technologies. Charles’ passion for farming developed after a working a corn harvest on his brother-in-law’s farm in Arapahoe, Nebraska, prior to joining Google. Charles earned an AB from Dartmouth and an MBA from Harvard with coursework at MIT.

Ed joined AppDynamics in 2012 and is responsible for all Development, Quality Engineering, Documentation and Release Management. Prior to joining AppDynamics, Ed was VP of Product Development for Adobe’s developer products including Flex, Flash Builder and Cold Fusion, leading over 100 developers, testers and product managers across multiple countries. Ed was the driving force behind Adobe AIR, and co-founded and led AIR as a startup project within Adobe. Before that, Ed was one of the key engineers behind Adobe Acrobat Reader, a product used by hundreds of millions of people worldwide.

Maria Olide is a CFO at Farmers Business Network and is based in San Francisco Bay Area. She has worked as Audit Manager at KPMG US, Founder & CFO at BIMBI.., and Strategy Manager at Mitchell Madison Group. Maria studied at University of California Berkeley between 1987 and 1991 and Stanford Graduate School of Business between 1997 and 1999.

Ben Harms is a Chief Strategy Officer at Farmers Business Network and is based in San Francisco, California. He has worked as VP of Strategy and Business Operations (FBN Direct) at Farmers Business Network; General Manager, FBN Network at Farmers Business Network; and Global MBA Associate - Digital Agriculture at ANHEUSER BUSCH INBEV SA NV. Ben attended 美國普林斯頓大學 between 2006 and 2010 and The Wharton School between 2015 and 2017.

David Delaney is a Chief Executive Officer at Itafos. He attended Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.

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Guy is an accomplished global CMO and Board Member with an extensive track record of developing game-changing strategies that accelerate profitable growth for ambitious, mission driven businesses leveraging a customer-back, data-driven, visionary & entrepreneurial approach.

As CMO for Intuit QuickBooks he led the team that launched the first global brand marketing campaign “Backing You” that transformed key marketing metrics & delivered +43% customer & 40% online revenue growth.

He led the global marketing launch of PlayStation 4 (widely regarded as the most successful console launch in history) & the “Greatness Awaits” campaign that returned PlayStation to market leadership, increased revenue $9B - $15B & was recognized with 8 Cannes Lions.

As global CMO in two private equity backed consumer growth businesses (Quorn & Good Hair Day), he was instrumental in developing & executing the strategic plans that delivered exceptional revenue & EBITDA growth and ultimately led to very successful exits.

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Charles is Co-Founder & VP of Product of Farmers Business Network (FBN), where he guides the development of the breakthrough farmer-to-farmer network. The FBN network is creating a digital farm economy for its over 21 m acres of member farms. By networking thousands of farms in the US & Canada, the FBN network helps farmers make better agronomic decisions, reduce input costs with e-commerce, and get premium prices for their crops through its global buyer network. Previously, Charles was a program manager at Google where he started and led product, investment and research initiatives in advanced energy technologies. Charles’ passion for farming developed after a working a corn harvest on his brother-in-law’s farm in Arapahoe, Nebraska, prior to joining Google. Charles earned an AB from Dartmouth and an MBA from Harvard with coursework at MIT.