Colin Custer

Colin is a Strategic Initiatives Manager at TechnoServe. In this role he works with corporates and impact investors to craft and implement sustainable sourcing, smallholder inclusion, and regenerative agriculture strategies in developing countries. He graduated from Yale with an MBA and an MEM with a focus on regenerative agriculture and finance, particularly on impact investors seeking to boost regenerative agriculture across the globe.

Prior to Yale, Colin spent two years running the Ugandan operations division of the agriculture nonprofit One Acre Fund, delivering seed, fertilizer, and financing to over 11,000 smallholder farmers in Eastern Uganda. Prior to that he worked in One Acre Fund's strategy team, developing joint ventures for seed production in Rwanda and identifying opportunities for smallholder farmers to access global crop markets, among other projects. Colin came to One Acre Fund after three years in Boston at the management consulting firm Bain & Co., and received his undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia. An avid backpacker, he's hiked the entirety of both the Appalachian and Pacific Crest trails in the US, and trekked in Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, and Uganda.