Kate Westfall

CEO, Agriculture Investment Marketplace

 

Kate Westfall
Kate Westfall has dedicated her career to the food and agriculture industries and those who are making vital investments in the sector. Kate has produced and executed over four dozen conferences for this community and is honored to have played a small part in the growth of the asset class.

Kate is currently Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Agriculture Investment Marketplace (AIM) where she, her partner Jared Rose, and a team of professionals with more than a decade of experience in this space, produce world class events and media for the agriculture investment community.  AIM is committed to the growth and prosperity of agriculture as an asset class for the global institutional investment and private wealth management communities.

Prior to establishing AIM, Kate spent 13 years developing and growing the Global AgInvesting (GAI) conference series. Before that, she worked as Conference Director in charge of agriculture, water and infrastructure investment events for IIR USA (an Informa company), and Managing Director, Marketing and Events with NewSeed Advisors, where she oversaw the planning efforts for the groundbreaking Agriculture 2.0 agtech investment conference series.

Kate graduated with a BA from Lees-McRae College and a Master’s degree in Food Culture & Communications from the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Bra, Italy.