Bloomberg Agriculture Outlook 2024

Todd Sibilla

Commodity Applications Specialist

Bloomberg

Todd Sibilla is a Commodity Applications Specialist for Bloomberg LP in New York. In this capacity he lectures at multiple industry events including BLOOMBERG Base, Precious and Battery Metals Webinar series through 2022, Client conferences in Toronto, Montreal, Miami, Mexico City and Monterrey, MX. He has been a featured speaker in the past at the BMO Metals and Mining Conference, CPM Gold Yearbook release, Society Of Mining Metallurgy and Exploration NYC conferences, Peru Universidad Esan, Universidad Peruana (UPC) and regional domestic USA Universities. Additional noteworthy events include the United Nations Renewable Energy Conference, the AFP Canada Annual Conference, CFA events, and Bloomberg Symposiums. He has expertise in all aspects of global financial markets and is a risk and hedging model specialist. Todd has a patent with Bloomberg for electronic trading technology.

Jeff Doran

Senior Business Meteorologist

Planalytics

Jeffrey (Jeff) Doran has more than 30 years of experience as a meteorologist, helping organizations effectively incorporate and utilize weather analytics and insights in their planning decisions. Prior to joining Planalytics in 1999 Jeff served as a U.S. Air Force Captain and earned both a B.S. and M.S. in Meteorology from Penn State University. In his current role at Planalytics, Jeff helps clients in the Agriculture, Insurance, Financial and Retail sectors manage weather's impact on their business by identifying opportunities to grow sales and market share, reduce costs, and manage risk.

Sterling Smith

Director of Agricultural Research

AgriSompo North America

A veteran of the industry, well known across North America and Europe, and a regular on Bloomberg, CNBC and Reuters. Sterling's career has taken in stints at Bloomberg, where he led the Agricultural product, Citi, as lead for Agricultural Research, CHS and previous to this, as an introducing broker for various firms at CBOT.

Hugh Bromley

Head of Food, Agriculture and Nature Research

BloombergNEF

Hugh Bromley leads BloombergNEF research teams covering sustainable food and agriculture systems, land use, nature and biodiversity. Hugh has 15 years of experience helping companies, investors and policymakers navigate the energy and ecological transition. Hugh previously spearheaded consumer clean-tech research at BNEF, examining how new technologies such as alternative proteins, rooftop solar and electric vehicles can disrupt markets. Before that he led the firm's North America clean energy research, and earlier produced analysis on distributed energy, utility strategy and carbon markets within BNEF’s Australia research team. He holds an engineering degree from the University of New South Wales.

Brian Williams

Senior Vice President of Macquarie

Macquarie

Brian Williams leads the Agricultural Risk Management Desk at Macquarie, providing commercial end-users, producers and the hedge fund community with specialized risk management strategies in the grains & oilseed sector. In his 24th year on the banking side of Wall Street, Brian utilizes long-term fundamentals alongside technically assisted trading strategies to project better price entry into markets. Brian’s footprint encompasses a large portion of the U.S. poultry industry as well as the ethanol industry, Fortune 500 food processors, and some prominent hedge funds. His career has spanned the likes of UBS, Prudential, and Jefferies, prior to joining Macquarie in the summer of 2015 as a Director of Macquarie Futures. Brian received his B.S. in Finance from Villanova University.