AGRIW - AgriFORCE Retains Barrett Mooney as Agricultural Technical Consultant | Benzinga
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, June 26, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AgriFORCE Growing Systems Ltd. (the "Company") (NASDAQ:AGRI, AGRIW)) announces that it has retained Barrett Mooney as an Agricultural Technical Consultant.
Barrett Mooney, Ph.D. has an extensive track record of growing agriculture and sustainability businesses. He currently provides strategic advisory services to growing big data and analytics companies. Dr. Mooney served as the CEO and Chairman of the Board for a NYSE-listed aerospace and defense company where he led the company through several major acquisitions and the transition from private to publicly traded. Prior to that, he co-founded and was CEO of HydroBio Inc., a software company that used satellite-driven image analytics to conserve water and maximize crop yields. In May 2017, he sold HydroBio Inc. to The Climate Corporation. Dr. Mooney continued to serve as a Group Product Lead for The Climate Corporation, a subsidiary of Monsanto (acquired by Bayer), where he led teams focused on using artificial intelligence to enhance crop yield and to implement a new organizational structure to improve seed sales efficiency. Additionally, Dr. Mooney has led technology teams for agricultural retail entities, served as an advisor to venture capital firms, and as an energy efficiency engineer. Dr. Mooney holds ...