Sara Menker ’04 is the founder and CEO of Gro Intelligence, a company that uses artificial intelligence to forecast agricultural and climate trends. Gro’s platform automatically harvests vast amounts of disparate global agricultural data, transforms it into knowledge and generates predictions for volatile markets.
Before founding Gro, Menker was a vice president in Morgan Stanley’s commodities group. She began her career in commodities risk management, covering all commodity markets, and subsequently moved to trading, where she managed an options trading portfolio. Menker is a trustee of the Mandela Institute For Development Studies and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture. Menker was named to the Forum of Young Global Leaders by the World Economic Forum and is a fellow of the Aspen Institute.
Class year: 2004
Major: economics