For over 20 years, Sudhan has been involved in a diverse set of industries including Interior Construction, Licensed Insurance Broker, Motivator and Teacher. He brings a proven track working in industries starting up or undergoing significant technological and structural disruption. Born into a family of entrepreneurs and generational business owners in Kathmandu Nepal, Sudhan attended Oklahoma State University for Computer Science. He then also attended Collin County College and studied Business administration. Following his passion for business, He along with a business partner took over a failing construction company. He soon turned the company around from bankruptcy to profiting over million dollars within 2 years. Sudhan saw first-hand the technological and structural changes in the company. Having spent 15 years within the construction industry he was in charge of a variety of sales and marketing leadership positions, including heading all Sales and the National Account.

Shawn was recruited by Health Markets, LLC as a licensed insurance agent in 2015. This company focused on the individual and small business benefits. He soon became a team leader and build the Dallas team to grow the business in four years to 400% growth in annual revenues, setting the stage for an eventual exit through the sale of the business. He recently opened an Insurance Agency in 2019 with an affiliation with IHC Specialty Benefits a subsidiary of NY based company IHC Insurance, where he is a team leader and an agency owner. Since the inception of the company in 2019 he and his team grew the company form $5 MM to over $25 MM annualized volume sale yielding over 5 times the growth within 2 years.

Sudhan, with his business partner Clint Goolsby started a business venture farming in 2017 hoping to help reduce national food shortage. Understanding the difficulties and several roadblock in traditional ways of farming, He and his business partner along developed a self-content, environment friendly new tech farming that can produce twice as much as a traditional green house. His in-depth knowledge of this new farming technology and proven track record of making business profitable in short period of time gives him a unique ability to be very successful.

Dr. Sheila Bhattacharya has been involved with research and commercial greenhouse industry for over more than 20 years. She earned doctorate degree in Plant Physiology from Punjab University, Chandigarh, India under the guidance of Professor K.K. Nanda, a renowned Plant Physiologist. Born in a family of multiple renowned scientists, including her father and uncles, Sheila continued her career with her two children and did post-doctoral research at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. During this period, she published several research papers on effects of high carbon di- oxide on several crop plants in Controlled Environment.

After working at Duke and Tuskegee University for several years, Sheila entered the commercial horticulture industry and worked in greenhouse production management for large companies in Arizona, California, New York, and North Carolina. Her passion for growing plants and successfully managing large operations combined with her in-depth knowledge of Plant Science was rewarded to her in many ways.

Sheila was elected as President, Director and International Director for International Plant Propagator’s Society and remained in executive board for 12 years. Sheila was awarded Hind Ratan Award by Government of India in 2009 for her contributions to science and industry. She held Team Lead and Directors position in large commercial greenhouse operations and published 40 plus research papers during her career. She took the challenge of entering Cannabis industry in 2019 and became successful in cannabis production from seed to sale for NY state-based company. Sheila continues to be part of dynamic Agriculture and Horticulture industry.

Clint Goolsby has a background education in engineering,  physics, biochemistry, genetics and economics. He grew up in construction and spent  most of the last decade in business development and R&D. In 2014 he started Farsight  Partners, LLC with Sudhan Shawn Shrestha. In 2017 he Became VP of development for FirstFruits Harvest.

While in this position he was exposed to the advanced hydroponics methodologies of three large agricultural development companies and participated in  feasibility studies at multiple sites throughout the country with each of these agricultural  development companies. After which he spent the next 2 years developing a new system  for advanced controlled environment hydroponics that exceeded any of the systems that  he was exposed to in that process. Including new proprietary racking systems channels  and overall system design for maximizing production per unit area while decreasing labor  costs. After which he has been assembling the necessary team members and financials to  get funding for building out projects at the scale that will optimize the yield from these  improvements. 

With his background in economics and business development he was able to research  and talk with several major food chains and gain insight into the best way to provide  produce for them. This knowledge will allow us to circumvent wholesalers and get additional guaranteed sales and better prices than what is standard in the industry. He is  set to guarantee that our fund does not stagnate but stays on top of all the industry  advancements in the years to come.

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Background in big four accounting firm and equity capital markets with a focus on advising high growth as well as established companies in supply chain organizations. Worked alongside major supply chain firms such as Nestle, Coca Cola, Heineken, Oil Search and Frabelle creating value and increasing financial efficiency in their supply chains in hard-to-do business locations, allowing competitive advantage.  Spent the last three years providing implementation and go to market strategies in the dispensary and healthcare spaces and created a beverage brand in the cannabis and hemp space as well as being advisor to the Santa Monica Cannabis Public Safety Task Force.

Mr. Addison has managed several business units in the areas of accounting and cash management, risk management, process implementation and improvement, business forecasting, and quality assurance. He has also been an instrumental part of several large business mergers in the biopharmaceutical space by setting forth processes and procedures that efficiently combined resources, generating immense value for stakeholders. Before beginning his career, Mr. Addison earned five degrees including a, a master’s in quality assurance and regulatory affairs, graduate from the school of pharmacy, a master’s degree in theology, and undergraduate degrees in drug development, and BS in chemistry. Mr.  Addison has also authored three books in the areas of cloud computing and has started several successful business ventures. Founder, President & CEO of Torpedopot™.

Over the course of his career, Mr. Shearer has gained a diverse array of functional financial management and investing experience. Before joining Torpedopot Mr. Shearer used his financial expertise to select venture capital, buyout, and private debt investments to be added to an $8 billion portfolio and actively managed relationships with a broad array of investment partners. Mr. Shearer also has experience in accounting and cash management through tracking and managed money transfers of between $1-$50 million flowing into and out of a large pension portfolio for a diverse array of complex transactions. He has also built out expertise in data analytics and process improvement in the manufacturing and biopharmaceutical spaces resulting in increased efficiencies in processes and reduced error rates. Before beginning his career, Mr. Shearer graduated sum cum laude with degrees in finance, economics, and business administration and was inducted into five honor societies.

Over the course of his career, Mr. Jones has helped numerous top executives manage and integrate business plans and align their organizations around KPIs directly tied to their strategic plans to reduce costs and establish multiple platforms for growth. Mr. Jones has also built scalable data architectures for executive teams and analysts to gather big data from an array of sources for quantitative analysis, marketing plans, sales & operation planning, integrated business planning, and conducting business valuations. He has also worked extensively with financial controllers to implement new BPM strategies to reduce human error and automate financial controls. Over his career, Mr. Jones has also worked with several Chief Security Officers on theft prevention and investigations on existing cases. He has also worked as a project manager for John Deer Landscapes and has multiple key connections in core areas for Torpedopot™ to expand upon. Before beginning his career, Mr. Jones graduated suma cum laude with degrees in computer science and software engineering.

Key Functional Areas Covered: Business management, analyzing new technologies and integration and accessing their potential to help optimize the business model Past positions, successes and/or unique qualities: Team manager for a technology development company that makes computer chips, etc. Educational background: Electrical Engineer (University of Texas at Arlington) with a Master of Business Administration from University of Dallas.

An experienced senior executive in the supply chain industry and proven people leader of teams of up to 10 direct reports with subordinates of more than 300 people, managing budgets of up to USD100m per annum turnover, with a passion for strategy. development and change management.  A consistent track record of success built through a variety of roles and across diverse operating environments with success in turning around loss making business units into profit centers.

George has nearly 20 years of experience in corporate finance and management consulting.  He started his career at KPMG Global, where he became a senior consultant whose clientele included Meiji Life (now known as Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance) and Maguire Partners. His team managed Meiji’s US billion-dollar real estate portfolio and played an integral part of the team that orchestrated Maguire Partner’s first REIT IPO. In 2003, George started his own company in supply chain management and sourcing for clients such as Forever 21 and Nordstrom.  By his third year in business, he was generating a multi-million-dollar revenue annually.  His most recent project includes leading a $16M property development.

Over 30 years of progressively responsible management, consulting   and entrepreneurial experience. Knowledge of all aspects of corporate marketing with an extensive background in large/small business, corporate management and franchises. Developed a complete boardroom ready business plan for Sam’s Clubs throughout the U.S. to install and operate fuel facilities that would be constructed in the parking lots of all Sam’s Clubs.

Gayl Newton has over twenty-five years as an accomplished human resource professional and business leader in both the private and non-profit sectors. She is adept in performing within dynamically changing environments requiring focused decision-making.

Gayl is highly skilled in streamlining business processes, implementing cost control measures, enhancing operational efficiency and building focused energized and collaborative organizational cultures. She has extensive experience with multi-sites/multi-states/multi-cultures/international operations, 24/7 operations and start-up operations. Plus, she has experience organizational re-engineering, strategic planning, change management, training, staffing and talent acquisition. Gayl has a BA from Baylor University and an MPA from Texas Tech University. She possesses SPHR, SHRM-SPC, Lean Manufacturing and Business Coach Certifications.

Industrial distribution and automation specialist, his experience makes him extremely qualified to implement the manufacturing of our proprietary racking and automated systems. He worked for Womack in the automation department and designed many extremely custom systems including optimizing the components for price and efficacy. Ranging from turret deployment from moving planes to assembly line systems.

He is a 3rd generation Israeli farmer with decades of experience as the Founder and CEO of Oz Agribusiness Projects and Investments, LTD. He is a partner in and CEO of Kentucky Fresh Harvest, LLC and his global agribusiness company. He and his team currently manage 21 sites worldwide. Based on the current statistics his company currently has 11 well trained agronomist/site managers available for deployment at new facilities that comes available. We have already discussed contract rates for using his trained managers on a yearly basis to aid in expansion staffing.