Gold Leaf Farming

Jack is a Co-Founder and the CEO of GLF. Jack leads GLF’s investment efforts as well as the general management and operations of GLF. Since inception, GLF has purchased nearly 12,000 acres of farmland in the western US. Jack is an investor with experience working with and investing in businesses in the food and agriculture space, focusing on specialty crops over the last five years.

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Before founding GLF, Jack was an investor at TPG, served as a policy advisor to Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, and worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Company. He holds an MBA from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business and a B.S. in Economics from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business.

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Jackie is the Vice President of Operations, where she develops and leads the firm's farm operational strategy and is responsible for the entire farming team.

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Before GLF, Jackie worked for Home Chef as the VP of Fulfillment, where she led the overall operational efforts in the production of e-commerce and retail meal kits across the country in addition to leading the company's logistics, skills training, and safety strategy.  Prior to Home Chef, Jackie worked at Sysco Foods as a Food Safety Program Manager and Reinhart Foodservice where she held a number of different roles including being the Plant Manager of their custom cut meat processing plant.

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Jackie earned her Master's degree from Michigan State University in Food Safety.

Ryan is the Director of Farm Ops, managing farm operations for Central and Southern California.

Before joining Gold Leaf, Ryan worked as a tree nut grower and crop consultant in the Central Valley of California. For most of his career, Ryan worked with Gold Leaf founder Brandon Rebiero at Wilbur-Ellis advising Trinitas Partners and other California growers as an agronomist.

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Ryan attended CSU Fresno State, where he obtained a B.S. in Plant Science – Plant Health. While attending Fresno State, Ryan first met Brandon working as his intern. Ryan grew up around ag where his family farms in the Oakdale area

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Kim is the VP of Finance at Gold Leaf.  Kim leads GLF's operational accounting and finance team and manages information technology services.  Prior to joining GLF in January 2024, Kim spent 5 years as CFO of Adams Extract & Spice, LLC, a private-equity-backed manufacturing company in the food & agricultural industry and one of Texas' oldest continually operated businesses. There, she led the company through significant growth, two private equity transactions, and onboarded a new ERP system.  Before joining Adams, Kim served in the government sector as the CFO of a Texas public school for 10+ years and prior to that worked as an Auditor for BDO Seidman for 2 years.