Agribusiness Consultants: 5

Andres Jimenez Vascone, MBA, has over 30 years of experience in the Paper / Containerboard Industry in Latin America. He specializes in the Sales and Marketing of the Agroexport Business.

Mr. Jimenez Vascone recently completed a course in Negotiation Mastery from Harvard Business School (online coursework) where he enhanced his skills to close deals that might otherwise be deadlocked, and learned to maximize value in the agreements reached and resolve differences before they escalate into costly conflicts.

Background Experience - Since 1999, Mr. Jimenez Vascone has worked with Papelera Nacional S.A. where he has direct relations with the sales and exports of containerboard to the most important clients of the company which are all the cardboard manufacturers of boxes for bananas, flowers, and other Ecuadorian product exports, as well as the sales of the boxes from the box plant in Ecuador which initiated operations in 2011 and now sells approximately 110K MT per year of boxes.

In this role, Mr. Jimenez Vascone has the following duties:

• Responsible for the production planning of the 2 Paper Machines
• Responsible for the export division, maintaining relations with international clients in Central America, Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Chile, Bolivia, and others
• Responsible for the elaboration of the annual sales division budget for paper and boxes

Moss Adams provides forensic accounting, litigation support, business valuations in addition to our tax and audit practice. They specialize in the areas of Health Care, Manufacturing and Distribution, Real Estate Construction, Agri-Business, and Information Technology. 

Moss Adams is a fully integrated professional services firm dedicated to assisting clients with growing, managing, and protecting prosperity. With more than 3,400 professionals across more than 25 locations in the West and beyond, they work with many of the world’s most innovative companies and leaders. Their strength in the middle market enables them to advise clients at all intervals of development—from start-up, to rapid growth and expansion, to transition. 

Moss Adams' Fresno offices are home to audit, tax, and consulting professionals serving clients in the agriculture, construction, manufacturing, health care, and not-for-profit industries. The Fresno offices also have specialty practices in valuation, litigation support, estate planning, employee benefit plans, and other value-added services.

For more information, please contact us or visit our website.

John A. Harris, is Principal of Landscape Economics, LLC, President of Earth Advisors, Inc., and a LANDSCAPE ECONOMIST who has worked in the Arboriculture, Forestry, landscape, and horticultural fields for over 40 years. Mr. Harris has provided reputable consulting, education, and project management services for projects across the United States and internationally, in both temperate and tropical ecosystems. Areas of Expertise include:

• Landscape and Tree Risk Assessments
  • Landscape, Tree, Urban Forest, Nursery Plant Value Appraisals
  • Landscape, Tree, Urban Forest, Nursery Plant Damage Appraisals
  • Damage Assessments, Claims, and Recovery Consulting

• Arboriculture Industry Standards and Standard Practices
• Landscape, Arboriculture, Forestry, Environmental Project Management
• Utility Line Clearance Industry Standards and Standard Practices, Electrocution
• Landscape Industry Standards and Standard Practices- Design, installation, maintenance
• Personal Injury and Wrongful Death involving tree or landscape issues
• Municipal Tree Inventory and Management Plans
• Duty of Care and Negligence in Tree and Landscape Maintenance
• Forestry and Forest Resources Management
• Grounds Maintenance Practices
• Arboriculture and Arborist Practices

The experts at Miller Engineering are Ann Arbor-based professional engineers celebrating 30 years of service to University, Government, Insurance, and Industry through research, publications, presentations, and testimony. Miller Engineering has a staff of engineers and experts in the Mechanical, Chemical, Agriculture, Industrial, and Human Factors fields of engineering with specific knowledge in the following areas: 

James M. Miller, PE, PhD – Founder Dr. Miller is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Michigan College of Engineering and a registered professional engineer and consultant with over 30 years of experience as an expert witness. He has served as a consultant to industry and government and is highly qualified to give engineering testimony. Dr. Miller specializes in warnings, labeling and instruction manuals, consumer product design, machine guarding, process safety, fire science, vehicle visibility, tractor egress/ingress, pedestrian and worker slip and fall prevention, recreational vehicles (ATVs, boats, and personal watercraft), compliance with occupational safety and consumer safety standards (OSHA, MSDS, CPSC, ANSI, ASTM, UL, etc.).

Mark R. Lehto, PhD – Co-Founder Dr. Lehto is a Professor of Engineering at Purdue University. He completed his Ph.D. in engineering at the University of Michigan in 1985, where he specialized in Human Factors Engineering, in particular Warnings and Labeling. He has taught courses at Purdue in human and safety factors areas, as well as decision making and artificial intelligence. He has authored numerous professionally-reviewed articles, and he has authored / coauthored internationally-recognized textbooks in the areas of human factors and ergonomics. Dr. Lehto specializes in knowledge engineering, warnings and instructions, structuring expert systems, accident modeling, accident statistical analysis, consumer product safety, boating safety, in-field national surveys of product usage and product information effectiveness.

David R. Clark, PE, PhD – Co-Founder Dr. Clark is an Emeritus Engineering Professor at Kettering University. He was an engineering Ph.D. graduate from the University of Michigan, where he specialized in human factors engineering and system safety analyses. In particular, his earlier degrees in mechanical and electrical areas have given him a special expertise in electrical fire- and explosion-related accidents. Dr. Clark is also published on the topics of warnings and labeling. With considerable in-plant experience at General Motors, he is uniquely qualified to provide student theses and design projects while teaching at Kettering that deal with many types of mechanical and optimization projects. Finally, he has extensive experience working for loss control companies, performing over 150 fire origin and cause investigations in the past few years.

Delta Agronomics provides Engineering Solutions for Indoor Agriculture. With over 350 successful indoor agriculture facility engineering designs, they have the track record to ensure facilities maximize the quantity, quality, health, and consistency of product, from harvest-to-harvest, year over year. Clients have included venture capital groups, owners, contractors, cultivators, and engineers. 

Business Consultant Services:

Quality Assurance 

• Peer Review
• Trouble Shooting
• Property and Facility Due Diligence
• EC Equipment Startup Coordination HVAC
• Plumbing and Electrical Systems Commissioning

Brian Zimmerman, PE, Principal at Delta Agronomics, has over 35 years of experience in the Commercial HVAC Engineering and Design market. The past 13 years, Mr. Zimmerman has designed over 350 Cannabis Cultivation and Processing Facilities across the US and Canada. 

Mr. Zimmerman is an expert in sizing and specifying HVAC equipment in the indoor cannabis and controlled environmental agriculture (CEA) markets. His specialty is in HVAC equipment sizing, control, and capabilities for maintaining stable design setpoints for temperature and relative humidity (RH).

View Brian Zimmerman's Expert Witness Profile.