Join us for a conversation with David Vosburg (SOM '09), Chief Innovation Officer for Local Bounti. David will talk about his role at Local Bounti, the means by which Local Bounti is disrupting our food systems and his career journey and advice for students as they consider a career in business and the environment. Local Bounti is a premier controlled environment agriculture (CEA) company redefining ESG standards and indoor agriculture.

David has spent his life career founding, growing and scaling technology businesses that create social value. He previously served as the CFO of Sensei Ag, a market changing AgTech venture, founded by Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison and physician and scientist Dr. David Agus. Dave was also Head of Business Development and Chief Financial Officer of Crop One Holdings, Inc., a vertical farming company. As CFO, he created a $50MM joint venture with Emirates Flight Catering to construct one of the world’s largest vertical farms. He also secured $134MM in the first Take-and-Pay contracts in the vertical farming industry and co-founded Conception Nurseries, a technology licensee to expand Crop One into new verticals. Immediately after his time at Yale SOM, Dave founded and grew Ed-Tech and Fin-Tech companies in Zambia, working in C-suite roles