Chad Zimmerman

Chad Grew up on a family row crop farm in Nebraska. Through this lens of family farm life, he gained an appreciation for the acute challenges affecting large areas of rural America and the immense opportunities for continual development of Midwestern agriculture.

He is currently the GlobalSTL Director of Ag-Food Business Development. This role is tasked with discovering innovation needs of farmers and stakeholders along the food value chain and then tapping into the vast innovation ecosystem to bring appropriate solutions to commercialization. Prior to this role with GlobalSTL, Chad had a career spanning more than 20 years with Monsanto and then Bayer Crop Science. His experience included manufacturing, logistics, planning, complex negotiations, and product management for both seeds and crop protection products.