

Marc has dedicated the majority of his professional career to the food and produce industries and to improving our food systems. Marc has an extensive marketing background in retail where he has developed award-winning campaigns for Toys R Us, L’Oreal, as well as Turner Broadcasting and Arbitron.Īs Co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer of AeroFarms, Marc has been recognized by Produce News for their 2020 Vanguard Awards for the Top 35 Innovators Ever Who Have Shaped the Produce Industry, and by Eating Well as one of their 2018 American Food Heroes. Marc Oshima co-founded AeroFarms with a deep desire to make fresh, nutritious produce more accessible to communities globally. in Dairy Science minoring in Artificial Intelligence from University of Wisconsin-Madison.

in Animal Science from Colorado State University, and a Ph.D. Before founding AeroFarms, Ed was a Professor at Cornell University, one of the top agriculture schools in the world where he was responsible for identifying cutting-edge technologies.Įd was a prominent thought leader in the world of indoor agriculture and was an Individual Finalist for the 2011 World Technology Award. He fell in love with agriculture the first time he visited his uncle’s dairy farm, and continued studying, inventing and innovating from that point on. During his life, Ed had over 40 years of agricultural and engineering experience. This inspiration is what led him to invent the indoor vertical farming technology behind AeroFarms. Ed Harwood, a pioneer of aeroponics, was inspired by the vast amounts of disused warehouse spaces he saw while travelling rural areas of the US helping farmers. The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies.

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