About
Who We Are
At Grow Further, we engage farmers, scientists, and individuals in participatory innovation for global food security and sustainable agriculture.
Our members come from different backgrounds, but we all come eager to learn from each other, invest in the future of food, support scientists with overlooked ideas, and help small-scale farmers.
Our Management
Core Team
Advisory Committee
Christine Xu
Communications &
Marketing Consultant
Christine Xu
Communications and Marketing Consultant
Donald Summers
Management
Consultant
Donald Summers
Management Consultant
Eric Momanyi
Board
Member
Eric Momanyi
Board Member
Jennifer Dine
Membership
Director
Jennifer Dine
Membership Director
Jennifer runs our member-facing programs, including recruitment and engagement. Her career started in finance in the JPMorgan Global Treasury & Security Services Analyst Program in New York, and she ultimately served as Vice President in the Treasury Services Financial Institutions Sales Group, managing a portfolio of clients for the firm. Jennifer enjoys the personal connections that result from relationship and account management, particularly in her recent work in partnership development in the nonprofit sector, where she hopes to spend the remainder of her career. Jennifer holds a B.S. in Marketing from the Boston College Wallace E. Carroll School of Management and, for her avocation in natural health, completed the practitioner course track at The School of Health, UK.
Jordan Sheffield
Board
Treasurer
Jordan Sheffield
Board Treasurer
Ken Hunt
Board
Secretary
Ken Hunt
Board Secretary
Ken has spent the last 25 years building, growing, and managing businesses, in Board, C-level, and EVP roles in industries including agriculture, biotechnology, nutrition, software, and consumer packaged goods for organizations ranging from 5 to 250 people while overseeing P&L’s with up to $210M in revenue. Ken is currently the Principal and Founder of Fiber, Field, & Fork, a consultancy for companies in natural-fiber textiles, agriculture, and plant-based nutrition with corporate strategy, business development, marketing & sales, capital, and M & A needs. Ken holds a JD, an MBA, and a BA from Wake Forest University.
Nathanial Gronewold
Lead
Journalist
Nathanial Gronewold
Lead Journalist
Peter Kelly
President &
CEO
Peter Kelly
President and CEO
Prior to founding Grow Further, Peter was an assistant professor of economics at Renmin University in Beijing, where he taught and published on agriculture, international development, and the environment. He currently serves on the boards of a number of other charitable, policy, and for-profit organizations in addition to his full-time work at Grow Further, including as vice chair of Carbon Washington. He holds a PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics from UC Berkeley; holds a BS in International Agricultural Development, with distinctions in agricultural science, from UC Davis; and has completed Global Washington’s Global Leadership Forum.
Learn more about his personal journey and the inspiration that led him to build Grow Further.
Susan Mathew
Partnership Development Consultant
Susan Mathew
Partnership Development Consultant
Suvasini Ramaswamy
Board
Member
Suvasini Ramaswamy
Board Member
William Cleary
Board
Member
William Cleary
Board Member
Alesha Black-Miller
Adviser
Alesha Black-Miller
Adviser
Alex McCalla
Adviser
Alex McCalla
Adviser
Brady Walkinshaw
Adviser
Brady Walkinshaw
Adviser
David Zilberman
Adviser
David Zilberman
Adviser
David is Robinson Chair Professor of agricultural and resource economics at UC Berkeley and a foremost scholar on agricultural innovation. He received the 2019 Wolf Prize in Agriculture, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, and served as president of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
He has produced 350 refereed journal articles, 20 edited books, and consulting reports for the World Bank and FAO. His research analyzes innovation supply chain and policy economics, emphasizing the interactions between agriculture, energy, and the environment. He holds a PhD from UC Berkeley.