Farha Aslam

Farha Aslam is Founder and Managing Partner at Crescent House Capital, an investment and strategic advisory firm that focuses on the agriculture, energy and food processing industries. Earlier, she was a Managing Director at Stephens Inc. where she led the firm’s food and agribusiness equity research team and built a top-tier research franchise that spanned the grain, ethanol, protein, and packaged food sectors. Prior to Stephens, Ms. Aslam was a Vice President at Merrill Lynch, where she led research coverage on some of the best known dairy and meat conglomerates in America, including Dean Foods, Tyson, Pilgrim’s Pride, Smithfield Foods, Sanderson Farms, Hormel, and Del Monte. Ms. Aslam is a member of the Consumer Analyst Group of New York and the Association for Investment Management and Research. Farha currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Pilgrims Pride a leading poultry processor (bought out by JBS SA in 2021) ; Calavo Growers, Inc(CVGW). an international consumer goods and farm products company; Farmers Fridge; and PSSI, a company focused on food safety. She is also a nonprofit board member at Developments in Literacy. A graduate of the University of California, Irvine with a BA, Economics, she also holds a Master of Business Administration from Columbia University.