Ray Gaesser

Enterprise Florida Inc. (EFI) is a public-private partnership serving as Florida's primary organization devoted to statewide economic development. EFI's mission is to diversify Florida's economy and create better paying jobs for its citizens by supporting, attracting and helping to create globally competitive businesses in innovative, high-growth industries. EFI accomplishes this mission by focusing on a wide range of industry sectors, including clean energy, life sciences, information technology, aviation/aerospace, homeland security/defense, financial/professional services and manufacturing. In collaboration with a statewide network of regional and local economic development organizations, EFI helps to improve Florida's business climate, ensuring the state's global competitiveness. Enterprise Florida is committed to assisting companies confidentially with their expansion and location plans. They provide site selection services, demographic information, incentive information, trade leads and much more. They also coordinate introductions to their network of economic development partners located throughout the state.

California Harvesters, Inc. is an employee benefit company that supplies agricultural labor to growers in the United States. The company is based in Bakersfield, CA. The company's mission is to create high-quality farm labor jobs connected to an ecosystem of support. The CEO of the company is Erica Centeno.

American Farmland Trust promotes social and civic activities. It is a national non-profit organization working with communities and individuals to protect the land and plan for agriculture. The company was founded by David Rockefeller and Peggy McGrath in 1980 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

PSP Investments Natural Resource is a private equity firm founded in 2011. The firm headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

Timberlands Ltd. engages in the provision of forest management services. It offers financial management and compliance, forestry technical, tree crop, harvesting, marketing, and forest risk services. It also provides log sales, safety and risk, and forest access. The company is headquartered in Rotorua, New Zealand.

Ducks Unlimited, Inc. provides wetlands and waterfowl conservation. is the world's leader in wetlands and waterfowl conservation. The firm guided by science and dedicated to program efficiency, works toward the wetlands sufficient to fill the skies with waterfowl today, tomorrow and forever. The company was founded in 1937 and is headquartered in Memphis, TN.

HTFF REIT, Inc. operates as a real estate investment trust. The company is headquartered in Boston, MA.

American Bird Conservancy is a non-profit membership organization with a focus on conserving habitats and eliminating threats to wild birds. It was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in The Plains, VA.

Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. (Investment Portfolio) (MetLife-IM) is the insurance management division of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., which is owned by MetLife, Inc. (NYSE: MET), a global provider of insurance, annuities and employee benefit programs. The firm is headquartered in New York City with additional office in Morristown, New Jersey. MetLife-IM offers group dental benefit plans for individuals, employees, retirees and their families and provides dental plan administration for over 20 million people. The firm provides disability products for individuals, as well as employee and association groups who receive them through their employer.

The Conservation Fund engages in the protection of America's landscapes & waterways. It offers identifying, negotiating and financing land purchases. The company was founded by Patrick Noonan and Richard Erdmann in 1985 and is headquartered in Arlington, VA.

Sustainable Forestry Initiative, Inc. provides forest-based conservation services. The non-profit company is based in Arlington, VA. Kathy Abusow has been the CEO of the company since 2007.

Manomet, Inc. engages in conserving natural resources. The company is headquartered in Plymouth, MA.

Global Factory, Inc. provides collaborative manufacturing execution systems. The firm's software gather, organize & analyze demand, production & quality data from various sources and monitor key indicators & execute business processes to control, manage & optimize distributed manufacturing operations. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

AcreTrader, Inc. operates as real estate investment online platform. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Fayetteville, AR.