Shari Rogge-Fidler

As a Lewis & Clark AgriFood Advisory Group member, Shari brings extensive strategic experience leading multi-stakeholder organizations. She currently serves as President and CEO of Farm Foundation, where she leads operational improvements, establishes new programs (including those that expand diversity), and initiates the vision process alongside the Board.

A fifth-generation farm owner herself, Shari provides firsthand knowledge regarding the integration of precision AgTech tools into day-to-day operations. Before taking the lead role at the Farm Foundation, Shari served as CEO of Illinois-based Family Farms, LLC, an enterprise of five companies providing business, financial, and farm input services to around 1,000 farms throughout the U.S. and Canada. She also led overall value creation, growth strategy, and commercialization for the New Hampshire-based data analytics technology firm Applied GeoSolutions, LLC; prior to that, she founded (and served as president of) Cambium Strategies, LLC. During her six years at Cambium, Shari led strategy projects for a range of food and agriculture organizations from Fortune 200 companies to mid-sized firms to global NGOs.

Shari is highly effective in strategic business problem-solving and communication, having served as a Global Coach for MBACASE.com and as the co-director of the consulting academy at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business. She also conducted strategic analysis with the Boston Consulting Group (London, England) and, while working as an Institutional Sales Executive for London-based McKinley Allsop Limited, initiated European market expansion.

Currently, Shari sits on the St. Louis Federal Reserve Board, The Nature Conservancy Board of Trustees, and the Soil Health Institute Board of Directors (Executive Committee). She previously held board-level positions at Coastal Pet Products Inc., Farm Credit Mid-America, SEED Corp, and the Local Growers Guild.

Shari holds an MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration and a BS in Business Administration from the University of Kansas. She is an active Harvard alumna, serving on two fundraising committees, including one for an endowed chair in honor of her professor Ray Goldberg, the “founding father” of agribusiness.