Meet Your Speakers
Daren Abney
Executive Director,
The U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol
William H. “Buddy” Allen
President/CEO, American Cotton Shippers Association
Bruce Atherley
Executive Director, Cotton Council International
Joerg Bauersachs
Head of Technical Services, Cotton Council International
David Camp
Vice President Sales Operations, Staplcotn
Jody Campiche
Vice President of Economics and Policy Analysis, National Cotton Council
Saima Chowdhury
Founder and CEO, Noi Solutions, LLC
Colin Coggins and Garrett Brown
Business Transformation Change Agents, Popular USC Professors of Entrepreneurship
Jon Devine
Senior Economist, Cotton Incorporated
Ana Hinojosa
Former Executive Director, U.S. Customs & Border Protection
Colin Iles
Executive Committee, Viterra
Adolfo Kalach
Vice President, Kaltex Group
Chris Kramedjian
Managing Director, Shearwater Commodity Research
Ron Lawson
Director Commercial Cotton, RCM Ag Services
Darren Long
Senior Trader,
ECOM USA
Keith Lucas
Vice President of Sales and Marketing, PCCA
Jerry Marshall
President, The Yiyang Company
Joe Nicosia
Executive Vice President, Louis Dreyfus Company
Rebecca Patterson
Economic & Financial Markets Expert, Former Chief Investment Strategist for Bridgewater Associates
Juergen Plessing
SOLUTIONS Program Manager, Cotton Council International
Hank Reichle
President and Chief Executive Officer, Staplcoton
Paul Roetzer
Founder & CEO, Marketing AI Institute
Agata Smeets
Head of Environment and Product Sustainability, Gap Inc.
Jason Schenker
Chairman of The Futurist Institute; President of Prestige Economics
Neil Woods
Vice President & Head of Supply Chain, Olam Agri
The biennial COTTON USA™ Summit is hosted by Cotton Council International and the U.S. cotton industry in cooperation with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Foreign Agricultural Services (FAS).