Grant Ferrier

Grant has had a distinguished career publishing market intelligence, and as a strategic advisor in the environmental and nutrition industries. He has published Environmental Business Journal since 1988, Nutrition Business Journal from 1996-2007 prior to selling the NBJ business, and Climate Change Business Journal since 2008. In 2007 founded Nutrition Capital Network (NCN), an organization that connects investors with early-stage companies in the nutrition and health & wellness industry. Grant has served as a lead consultant or principal advisor on proprietary consulting, research, and strategy development assignments in the nutrition and environmental industries. Since 1998, he has acted as an independent investor making investments in 17 companies. He has also served as a board member for eight companies and has sold three businesses that he founded. Grant has a B.S. degree from the University of California, Berkeley in Conservation & Resource Studies. He has homes in San Diego, Volcano, Hawaii, Whidbey Island, Washington and San Jose del Cabo, and is an accomplished gardener, puppeteer, cartoonist, author, theatrical performer, director, soccer player and Scottish dancer.