MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sentera Inc.,
a leading, global provider of digital insights to agriculture
products manufacturers and distributors, and enterprise food
companies, announced that Brian
Wenngatz has been named Chief Executive Officer, effective
January 24, 2022.
Wenngatz joins Sentera from HelpSystems, where he held several
leadership positions, most recently as General Manager of the
company's cybersecurity software and services businesses. His
tenure at HelpSystems was characterized by rapid organic and
inorganic growth. He brings an outstanding sales, marketing,
product, and M&A leadership skillset to Sentera, with broad
SaaS and B2B software experience.
Eric Taipale, Sentera's CEO since
the company's founding, will assume the role of Chief Technology
Officer, with responsibility for product and technology innovation
and delivery.
"After an exhaustive search process, the Board, the team, and I
couldn't be happier to welcome Brian as CEO of the company," said
Taipale. "As the Sentera platform continues to expand in user
adoption and actionable data collected, we've found the perfect
leader to further develop customer value, go-to-market and product
strategies, and position the organization for scale as the company
accelerates its already rapid growth."
"The business of feeding the world is at an exciting time; with
significant technology advancement being made across the entire
agriculture supply chain," said Wenngatz. "I am proud to join a
community that is taking on this incredibly important work to
improve outcomes and sustainability for generations to come.
Sentera has been at the forefront of this advancement as one of the
most respected and trusted brands in data capture, intelligence,
and insights delivery across the food and ag value chain to
materially improve profitability, yield, and sustainability. I am
looking forward to partnering with Eric and the talented team at
Sentera to further advance the Sentera platform as the definitive
standard for agriculture data quality and delivery."
"We believe Sentera is the leader in data fusion and agriculture
supply chain analytics," said Chris
Abbott, board member at Sentera and Co-Head of Conti
Ventures. "The company is solving a deep need to take messy,
time-sensitive data, and turn that data into valuable insights for
growers, processors, and food brands. The team has done a
tremendous job winning some of the largest customers in our food/ag
value chain, which has created a real network effect for our
customers. We are excited to leverage Brian's enterprise SaaS
background as an excellent complement to Sentera's already
outstanding team."
Minneapolis-based Sentera
delivers advanced, easy-to-use machine-learning and AI tools to
help its customers gain insight and efficiency throughout the food
and agriculture value stream. Its FieldAgentĀ® platform
provides comprehensive digital insights that leverage the most
complete and refined data lake in the industry, world-class data
science and AI, and user-centered applications and APIs. The
company serves hundreds of customers in 74 countries representing
tens of millions of acres.
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