Jerry Marshall

President, The Yiyang Company

Jerry Marshall is the owner of The Yiyang Company, an independent futures and options trading company he started in 2007. Prior to that, he spent 29 years at Cargill Cotton, where he was Senior VP responsible for the risk management of global cotton trading activities.

During his time at Cargill, he spent a total of six years living in the UK and Hong Kong where he traded Australian, Turkish, Uzbek, Pakistani, Indian and Chinese cottons. He spent several years in charge of Cargill's Far Western USA trading, as well as working with Cargill’s OTC swaps business.

He is a past Chairman of the American Cotton Shippers Association, and serves or has served on the boards of numerous cotton industry associations, including ACSA, the National Cotton Council of America, the Western Cotton Shippers Association, the Memphis Cotton Exchange, and the International Cotton Association, Ltd. From 2003 until 2007, he served as a Director of The Seam LLC. From 2017 until this year’s Covid-related shutdown, he served as Program Director at the ACSA International Cotton Institute.

Jerry is a graduate of Columbia University with a degree in Economics.