From Farm to Plate: Financing Change, Changing Finance – SWF 2012
Speakers
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Director of Social Advocacy and Supply Chain Community Outreach, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters
Rick Peyser is Director of Social Advocacy and Supply Chain Community Outreach for Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, where he has worked for 24 years. He is a past President of the Specialty Coffee Association of America, the world’s largest coffee trade association, served 6 years on the Fair Trade Labeling Organizations International (FLO) Board and currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Coffee Kids, Food4Farmers and Fundacion Ixil.
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Willy Foote is founder and CEO of Root Capital, a nonprofit that offers farmers around the world a path to prosperity by investing in the agricultural businesses that serve as engines of impact in their communities. Root Capital provides these businesses with the capital, training, and access to markets they need in order to grow, thrive, and create opportunities for thousands of farmers at a time. Since its founding in 1999, Root Capital has provided more than $1.7 billion in loans to 770 agricultural businesses in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Together, these businesses have bought and marketed crops for 2.4 million smallholder farmers, reaching over 10 million people in rural communities.
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Head of Procurement, Commodities – Zone EUR, Nestlé
Gary Milsted is Head of Procurement, Commodities – Zone EUR at Nestlé. In his former role, Gary was responsible for coordinating Coffee Purchases for the Nestlé Group and supporting the Nestlé Plan with the objective of delivering sustainable sourcing for Green Coffee within Nestlé. He has a long history with the company, having worked for Nestlé Australia, Nestlé UK & Nestec Ltd.
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Dana is currently freelancing, continuing her work in international agricultural development while also exploring the Seattle startup scene. She is helping Sam Dryden with his Digital Thinking for Smallholders Initiative, an effort to envision a future for African food systems in which smallholder farmers – connected to previously inaccessible information, networks, and markets through digital technology – are the engine of agricultural growth. This summer, she’ll also be coaching for Koru, a start-up that's figuring out how to help recent college grads build relevant skills in a real-work setting and gets them hired at innovative, high-growth companies.
Until February 2015, Dana worked as a Program Officer within the Agricultural Development initiative at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. There she managed a portfolio of grants that were all about positioning smallholder farmers to realize the benefit of proven agricultural technologies and techniques. Her portfolio included programs connecting coffee and cashew farmers to value-added markets, providing nascent agricultural enterprises with access to capital, and delivering seed and fertilizer packages on credit to farmers through a social enterprise model.
Her earlier experience includes developing capacity building programs in Cambodia, and sales and marketing strategy development within the high tech and telecom sectors. She holds a Master of International Affairs degree from Columbia University, where she studied Economic Development and Finance, and a BA from the University of Virginia in Literature and Studio Art.
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Global Director of Inclusive Finance, Citigroup, Inc.
Bob Annibale
Global Director,
Citi Community Development and Inclusive Finance
Bob leads Citi’s partnerships with global, national and local organizations to support inclusive finance and community development through economic empowerment. He also leads Citi’s commercial relationships with microfinance financial institutions, corporations, investors and municipalities, working across Citi’s businesses and geographies to expand access to financial services in underserved communities.
Since joining Citi in 1982, Mr. Annibale has held a number of senior regional and global treasury, risk and corporate positions in Athens, Bahrain, Nairobi, London and New York.
Bob serves on the U.S. FDIC Advisory Committee on Economic Inclusion and the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs Advisory Council on Financial Education and Inclusion. He serves as a Founding Member of SAGE’s Housing Advisory Council supporting the senior LGBT community, and serves on the board of the Citi Foundation, Accion International and the Bedford Stuyvestant Restoration Corporation.
In 2014, Bob was honored by the Obama Administration as a White House Champion of Change for his work leading Citi’s programs promoting immigrant integration and citizenship in the United States. His leadership contributed to Citi’s recognition by Euromoney as the inaugural “Best Bank for Financial Inclusion” and “Latin America’s Best Bank for Sustainable Finance”. Bob was individually recognized by Euromoney as a “Global Impact Banking Champion”. In 2018, he was again named by the Financial Times as one of the OUTStanding Top 100 LGBT Business Leaders for the fifth consecutive year.
Bob, a U.S. and U.K. national, holds a B.A. in History and Political Science from Vassar College, New York, and an M.A. in African Studies (History) from the University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies.
