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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
David C. Cole
Chairman, Sunnyside Farms LLC
Chairman of The Twin Farms Collection, LLC,
owner & operator of luxury resorts in Vermont and California.
Over the past 25 years, David Cole has been active worldwide
in the publishing, communications, software, online services, and
consumer products industries. He specializes in corporate strategy,
finance, and hyper-growth management. Cole presently serves as chairman
of three organic food companies: Acirca, Inc. (Acirca.com
and WalnutAcres.com), Green
Circle, and Sunnyside Farms.
Cole is also chairman of the Twin Farms Collection, an owner and
operator of luxury resorts (TwinFarms.com
and Timber-Hill.com). Cole
presently serves on the boards of directors of Healthnotes,
American Farmland Trust, Island
Press, Sesame Workshop,
and PBS and is a former director of
the Nature Conservancy and World
Wildlife Fund.
What’s New:
(KAHULUI, Maui, Hawaii, August 28, 2003) — Chairman David
Heenan announced today that David C. Cole will become President
and Chief Executive Officer of Maui Land & Pineapple Company,
Inc. (AMEX: MLP) on October 15, 2003. For more on this story, click
here.
"New
CEO ready to revamp Maui Land", read the Honolulu Advertiser
article (Sept. 10, 2003) on David C. Cole.
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Governor Linda Lingle
Honorable Governor Linda Lingle
Executive Chambers
State Capitol
Honolulu, Hawai`i, 96813
For nearly thirty years, Linda Lingle has dedicated herself to
making life and government better in Hawai`i - as a newspaper publisher,
a county government leader, an active community volunteer, and now
as our governor. In 1980, waging a grassroots campaign against a
well-funded challenger, Linda Lingle was elected to the Maui County
Council. She served five two-year terms on the council - three terms
representing Moloka'i and two terms as an at-large member. Her major
accomplishment was creating a Moloka'i Planning Commission so that
the people of Moloka'i had a means to discuss and decide zoning
and planning issues that affected them.
Councilwoman Lingle was elected Mayor of Maui County in 1990 and
re-elected in 1994. She is proudest of being able to gather support
to implement performance-based budgeting that measures the effectiveness
of government programs. In 2002, Mayor Lingle campaigned again for
governor, this time winning the state's highest office. She is the
first woman and the first mayor to serve as Governor of Hawaii,
and the first Republican to lead the state since 1962. Governor
Lingle may be contacted via e-mail at gov@hawaii.gov.
What’s New: (HONOLULU, Hawaii, August 26, 2003)
GOVERNOR LINGLE, INDUSTRY LEADERS TO ADDRESS ANNUAL AGRICULTURE/LANDSCAPE
CONFERENCE. For more, click
here.
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David Minor
Director of the James A. Ryffel
Center for Entrepreneurial Studies
in the M.J. Neeley School of Business at Texas Christian University
David Minor is the William M. Dickey Entrepreneur in Residence
and Director of the James A. Ryffel Center for Entrepreneurial Studies
in the M.J. Neeley School of Business at Texas Christian University.
Prior to joining TCU, David was the founder and president of Minor’s
Landscape Services, a former Inc. 500 award winning company. This
award recognizes the fastest growing privately held companies in
America. The company, which employed over 300 people in Fort Worth
and Dallas, was sold to TruGreen-ChemLawn in 1998. As a vice president
of the Landscape Division with TruGreen, David helped direct the
acquisition and integration of dozens of companies totaling over
$550 million in revenue. David is a past president of the Associated
Landscape Contractors of America. He was also named the country’s
Professional of the Year by LANDSCAPE & IRRIGATION Magazine
in 1995 and was recognized as Tarrant County’s Entrepreneur
of Distinction in 1990. He currently serves on the boards of directors
for Summit Community Bank, Diamond H Recognition, Inc., and Goldsmith’s,
Inc.
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Other guest speakers include:
Dr. Al Turgeon
of The Pennsylvania State University, Professor of Turfgrass Management,
Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, a fellow of the American
Society of Agronomy and the Crop Science Society of America and the
recipient of many honors and awards in recognition of his professional
accomplishments. His book, Turfgrass Management, now in its
sixth edition, is the standard text for introductory turfgrass instruction
around the world.
Dr. Don Loch of the Redlands Research Station leads the Turf
Research Group within the Queensland Department of Primary Industries.
His work was instrumental in developing technology to support the
commercialization of many new tropical herbage grasses and legumes
during an exciting pioneering period with these species in northern
Australia. Dr Loch has presented invited plenary papers at three
International Grassland Congresses (1993, 1997, 2001), the International
Herbage Conference (1991), the Asian Seeds Conference (1995), and
the International Seed Federation (FIS) Congress (1999). He has
been involved in numerous workshops in Asia, Africa, America, and
Europe.
Kenneth A. Meter of the Crossroads Resource Center, Minneapolis,
MN, the creator of a pioneering local food systems study, Finding
Food in Farm Country, which documents erosion of rural wealth,
examines the potential for sustainable farming. He has been invited
to testify before the U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee.
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