
A securities lawyer became a bond trader, then traded the screen for soil. Nearly two decades later, his farmland thesis has become a $2 billion platform inside WisdomTree - while another revealing investment sits in the classrooms he helped redesign.
Commodity teams still make million-dollar calls with backward-looking data, stubborn spreadsheets and institutional instinct. DecisionNext turns that messy judgment into transparent forecasts, testable scenarios and decisions a CFO can defend.
Perry Vieth left a $7 billion bond desk to buy dirt. Eighteen years later, corn and soybean acres he leases to family farmers are worth $1.85 billion - and Wall Street finally wants in.
S2G Investments manages about $2.8 billion across food, oceans and energy - and its whole thesis is that the money should go where those systems meet.
Matt Logan is General Partner at Earthshot Ventures, a $60M San Francisco-based climate tech fund he helped build from the ground up. Formerly with Elemental Excelerator and Advanced Microgrid Solutions, Logan brings a rare blend of project finance, corporate partnerships, and data-driven sourcing to early-stage climate investing. He built Earthshot's proprietary outbound sourcing engine and focuses on companies where powerful technology waves - AI, robotics, materials, and energy - intersect with outsized climate benefit.