Meet Your Speakers

Daren Abney

Executive Director,
The U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol

Bruce Atherley

Executive Director,
Cotton Council International

Joerg Bauersachs

Head of Technical Services,
Cotton Council International

Garry Bell

President, Chasing Better Consultants Inc.

Jody Campiche

Vice President of Economics and Policy Analysis, National Cotton Council

Colin Coggins and Garrett Brown

Business Transformation Change Agents, Popular USC Professors of Entrepreneurship

Jon Devine

Senior Economist, Cotton Incorporated

Colin Iles

Executive Committee, Viterra

Darren Long

Senior Trader,
ECOM USA

Keith Lucas

Vice President of Sales and Marketing, PCCA

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

Jason Schenker

Chairman of The Futurist Institute; President of Prestige Economics

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).