Our Team

Michael Hanan works as North American Sales Manager at Fluence Bioengineering. Driven by a passion to help people live healthier and happier lives and to improve the sustainability of our food and agriculture systems, Michael has been working on the front lines of urban agriculture as Co-Founder of Ten Acre Organics and as CEO of Agua Dulce Farm.

Mariska Dreschler is Director Horticulture at RAI Amsterdam. As Director Horticulture, she supports the global food and flower production industry by organising trade fairs for these communities to connect, both face-2-face and digital. The GreenTech portfolio consists of GreenTech Amsterdam as the worldwide leading trade show on horticulture technologies and GreenTech Americas as the regional trade show in Mexico.

Nico Domurath is currently working as Research Assistant in Agriculture / Horticulture at Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems IKT engaging in the development of CEA competency within the Fraunhofer Group. He was plant scientist at INFARM in Berlin and is the Co-Founder of the Horticulture Consultancy INTEGAR.

Ian Kanski is Executive Director at the Center for Advanced Agriculture and Sustainability. As an entrepreneur with a career dedicated to technologies that enable positive social and environmental impact across Agriculture, Education, Energy and Software, Ian built a portfolio of business and humanitarian projects spanning Europe, West Africa, Central America and the South Pacific.

After six years of service as President Obama’s appointee as the Director of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) in Washington, DC, as of July 1, 2018 Sonny Ramaswamy assumed the presidency of the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities. Previous to this he worked for 30 years at several Land-Grant Universities, rising through the ranks from assistant professor, to head of department and ultimately all the way to dean.