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Speeding Adoption On-Farm
Tony Pardo
Global Manager, Client Services
Soft-spoken with an intense desire to hear clients express their needs, Tony Pardo serves as the global leader in AgriThority® Client Services. As Global Manager, Tony Pardo applies his bilingual sales management experiences and team development skills for the benefit of AgriThority clients. His diverse career ranged from sales working with channel partners and the seed industry to country business management. Previously, he was Vice President of International Sales with Blaze Products Corporation and lead consultant at Integrated Action Science Consulting. Pardo also spent more than 20 years in several roles at Bayer and a Bayer legacy company with 15 years based in Mexico as Country Manager.
Featured Presenters
Rhonda Brooks
Content Projects Manager, Farm Journal Media
Rhonda Brooks leverages 35 years of experience working in the agricultural industry and has been instrumental in the editorial development at Farm Journal during the past decade as editor and editorial director, seeds and production editor, editor of The Scoop and editor of Bovine Veterinarian. Prior to her time at Farm Journal, Rhonda worked in marketing communications with a number of multi-national agribusiness firms and freelanced for several national and state-specific farm publications. An agricultural journalism graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia, Rhonda has won more than a dozen communications awards throughout her career. Rhonda is a native of southwest Missouri, where she grew up on a diversified grain and livestock farm.
Sharon Berberich
Business Development Lead, Aker Technologies
Currently Business Development Lead at Aker Technologies, Inc., Sharon Berberich has a deep understanding of research and development along with the corresponding challenges of licensing, intellectual property management, start-up operations and venture capital investors. Her experience in agricultural biotechnology, technology, regulatory and communications runs the whole spectrum from large, small and start-up companies. She has a University of Missouri Biochemistry/Agriculture degree.
Ignacio Colonna
Global Director, Science and Technology, AgriThority®
As Global Director, Science and Technology for AgriThority, Ignacio Colonna is focused on the incorporating new technologies into product field development, including methodologies, equipment and analytics. He is an experienced researcher and a proven research operations manager. Ignacio now leads the global science and technology efforts in addition to his oversight of lab, greenhouse and field research operations. His data analysis and analytic skills are well-rounded with experience in seed, seed treatment and crop production inputs. He has managed more than 200 projects in Latin America for AgriThority clients primarily focused on innovative and biological technologies and how they perform. Ignacio has a strong track record coordinating research design, execution, data collection and analysis of field trials. Before joining AgriThority in 2015, Ignacio was a Research Scientist at Pioneer Argentina SRL where he was responsible for hybrid advancement including country-wide testing, implementation of new technologies for phenotyping and the development of analytical tools based on environmental data and crop models to support corn hybrid positioning.
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