Agri-Tech; Small Holder Farmers; Strategy

Nasir is a serial entrepreneur with expertise in digital technology, and innovation. Nasir has previously founded ventures based around entrepreneurship hubs, incorporating novel technologies into smallholder farming, and improving clean water access and sanitation.

Agroecology Business Models; Partnerships

John brings together the best of regenerative practice and climate-smart agribusiness. Founding his first venture at 21, he has worked and studied in ten countries on four continents and gained entrepreneurial experience in regenerative agriculture. John has since lectured in impact entrepreneurship at universities in Africa and Europe, owned and co-managed a farm in North Uganda, and gained expertise in the international agri-commodity trade.

IT; Biotechnology; Funding

Kolja is passionate about sustainability and impact optimization in complex systems more generally, whether biological or technical. He is a technical Product Manager with extensive knowledge of IT-development, data analytics, and fundraising. In the past, he managed two successful grant applications for innovation funding programs over ~1m EUR each. He holds a Dipl.-Ing in Biotechnology and has previously worked at Bayer where he gained knowledge about the extraction and purification of biological compounds.

Agroforestry- Design/Implementation/Training

With his first degree in biosystems engineering from Uganda and then a diploma in modern agricultural technologies from Israel, Lucky’s dream is to build an interconnected network of regenerative farmers. Lucky has increased his 20 acres coffee and banana farm annual turnover by 400% in 2018, co-owned and managed a year round vegetable farm in northern Uganda, and his current focus is on syntropic agroforestry production of food, lumber, herbs and fruits.

Project management; Partners’ relation

After studying business at ESCP, an all-around path, Lucas wanted to find a more meaningful way. He became interested in regenerative agriculture, agroforestry, and permaculture. He did his bachelor thesis on regenerative agriculture to support his new interest and reinforce his knowledge on the topic.

Khushboo is a multi-talented project manager and problem solver. As a life-long student of entrepreneurship and multi-cultural exchange, she is particularly adapt as an on-ground leader and event manager, and has a particular interest in bringing perspectives on regenerative agriculture to and from her home country of India.

A skilled systems-thinker, Jannik brings his expertise on the socio-political side of sustainability to his role as Tari's lead game-designer and our efforts to create games that accurately convey the multi-dimensional complexity of food system challenges.

Impact Documentation; History of Food & Agriculture; Research

Everest is on a journey to experience and understand every aspect of regenerative food systems. His particular interest is in cultural-exchange, relationship building, and human ecology, with a special focus on community development as a means to lasting regenerative transitions.