Michael’s technical background, 10+ years of leadership and project management experience with the U.S. Marine Corps and extensive travels and experience throughout the OECD and Emerging Markets make him uniquely qualified to strategically counsel companies as they take their agricultural sensor products to market. During his experience, Michael and the AgSensor team took an off-patent technology that had never been fully developed and are in the process of completing productization of a yield sensing device for cotton harvesters. This project included redesigning the sensor enclosure, a thorough upgrade of the communications protocol, and a ground-up development of a user interface and mobile application. All of this was done for use in a third-world country in less than four months. Michael and AgSensor are also working with the inventor of a pest detection and deterrence device where they took an early prototype and provided both hardware and software engineering services to produce a system capable of recognizing and taking deterrent action against specific pests in residential, recreational, commercial and agricultural settings. Over the course of 200+ man-hours, Michael led another team through the development of a 4-week, time-sensitive research report for a US$300MM Private Equity client looking to make a growth investment into an international avocado oil company. The report spanned nearly 90 pages, 20+ interviews with C-level executives, and included a detailed study of the avocado oil market size and potential, input supply chain, oil production process, competitive landscape, and secondary byproducts. Michael has years of personnel education and training experience, including presenting over 70 hours of formal lecture to classes that ranged from 80 to 250 students, leading over 400 hours of small-unit field training events, and facilitating hundreds of hours of small-group discussions for over a thousand students over a two-year period. While deployed to Afghanistan, Michael was the Chief of Staff for a diverse 250-personnel organization, accounting for nearly US$40MM in itemized assets and supervised a kinetic, geographical areas of 350 square kilometers and 15 decentralized, partnered positions. Michael has tactical-level farming experience in Texas, were he co-manages a self-sufficient farm raising a variety of horticulture and specialty crops, hydroponic greenhouse produce, bees/honey, and animal protein including poultry pork, and cattle. He also owns/operates a mixed agricultural farm outside Mendoza, Argentina, producing permanent and forage crops. Michael holds a Bachelor of Science Degree from Texas A&M in Agricultural Engineering. He is also a 7x published author with Global AgInvesting News, 3x Global AgInvesting Gazette, NewAgIntl, AgTech Nexus, and Agri Investor.