Shonda Warner founded Chess Ag Full Harvest Partners in 2006. Shonda has thirty years of experience in managing a multitude of financial assets besides just agriculture. From 2002 until 2006, when she returned to the US to build out Chess Ag, Shonda was the managing partner of the London-based asset management firm, Chess Capital Partners. […]

Jack Lynch is an Advisory Partner and served as Chess Ag’s Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel from April 2020 through June 2023. Jack is currently the Chief Legal Officer at Tishman.  Prior to joining Chess Ag, Jack worked for Sithe Global Management, LLC, a Blackstone subsidiary that invested in and developed infrastructure projects in […]

Bill Golden is on the faculty in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas. He holds a BS in Agricultural Engineering from Texas A&M University, a Master’s in Agricultural Business and a PhD in Agricultural Economics from Kansas State University. Prior to joining Kansas State University, he was actively engaged […]

Mike Wagner joined Chess Ag as an advisory partner in summer of 2017. As well as advising Chess Ag,  Mike is the founder and farmer of Two Brooks Farm. Two Brooks began its life in 1988 and is situated in the heart of Tallahatchie County Mississippi. For the past twenty years the farm has been […]

Bill Goodbar joined Chess Ag Full Harvest Partners in 2015. He has thirty years of experience in agribusiness and finance. Prior to joining Chess Ag, Bill served as a Managing Director of INTL FCStone Securities, where he headed up the firm’s agribusiness investment banking practice.  From 1997 to 2011, he served as a Managing Director […]

James Luchars has served as an Advisory Partner at Chess Ag since 2020. James is the Chief Investment Officer at Stonebridge Companies where he oversees all new acquisition and development growth initiatives of the company. Prior to joining Stonebridge, James was a Principal with AEW Capital Management in the firm’s opportunity fund group. In this […]