GreenSight CEO and leadership

James is an experience executive, program manager and engineer. His technical specialty is rapid prototyping of robotic and sensor systems, initially for military applications and more recently for commercial agriculture!

ex-Aerospace Executive with service biz leadership experience. Working on becoming a serial entrepreneur.

Shevawn Hardesty has been providing financial management and leadership for technology organizations for over 25 years. She works with emerging technology companies as their CFO on a consulting basis or on staff. Shevawn has closed ten rounds of venture funding totaling over $70 million as well as multiple rounds of debt financing. Shevawn manages the financial aspects of her client companies, including business and financial planning and analysis; raising capital; financial and operational reporting to management and the Board; cash flow management; implementation of financial and accounting systems and operations; and risk management. In addition, she hired and trained the financial and administrative teams and oversaw HR, information services, legal and facilities.Shevawn has been on the management team as CFO for five technology companies that were acquired at favorable values by public companies. Shevawn joined these companies as they were receiving their initial financing. She worked with management to grow the value of these companies and played a key role in the sale process, including negotiation, due diligence and closing of the sale. Prior to her work with emerging technology companies, Shevawn held positions as VP, controller and financial director at several well-known financial organizations. At Fidelity Investments, Fleet Bank and Blue Cross MA, Shevawn oversaw the financial planning and accounting and served as a financial advisor to senior management for the IT groups. At Fleet Bank, she also served as the division head for the operating division providing bank wide administrative and logistics support. Shevawn spent the first five years of her career on the audit staff of Ernst & Young.Specialties: Financial planning, M&A, Raising Capital, Strategic Business Planning, Financial Infrastructure, Operations Management, Due Diligence, Web 2.0, SAAS, Clean Tech, Software, Proprietary Technology, Venture Capital, Angel Investors,

John Kaminski is Professor and Associate Head in the Department of Plant Science at The Pennsylvania State University. His appointment is 75% extension and 25% research. He also serves as Director of the Golf Course Turfgrass Management Program, an 18-month intense training program for future golf course grounds managers.

Dr. Kaminski's primary research includes the cultural can chemical management of turfgrass diseases as well as various weed species. He has been involved or responsible for the identification and/or discovery of 4 relatively new turfgrass diseases found on golf courses including dead spot, brown ring patch, and thatch collapse as well as the purported new disease referred to as Pythium patch. In addition to his pathology work, he is involved in research on annual bluegrass as well as various cultural practices that impact turfgrass health.

Within the Department of Plant Science, Dr. Kaminski also works in the emerging field of hemp production in Pennsylvania. His interest in this area includes the evaluation of hemp varieties grown in the field for CBD and other cannabinioids as well as the plant's safety to herbicides.

In conjunction with his work at Penn State, Dr. Kaminski is a leader in the are of communication and social media in the turfgrass industry. He created and manages several websites and social media accounts where he shares the latest pest information for turfgrass managers around the world. He also developed the free turfgrass pest app Turfpath, which has been download approximately 30,000 times.

Outside of Penn State, Dr. Kaminski is the Chief Agronomy Officer of GreenSight Agronomy. GreenSight is a Boston-based technology company that utilizes proprietary imaging hardware/software to detect turfgrass stress on golf courses with autonomous drones. John also consults with various golf courses around the United States and select countries around the world.

Recently, John worked with Dr. Alfred Turgeon to co-author the latest text for turfgrass professionals. Turfgrass Management Edition 1.0 was released in August 2019.

James is an experience executive, program manager and engineer. His technical specialty is rapid prototyping of robotic and sensor systems, initially for military applications and more recently for commercial agriculture!

ex-Aerospace Executive with service biz leadership experience. Working on becoming a serial entrepreneur.