Get to know a few members of GreenStone’s capital markets team!

Jeremy Reineke: Managing Director of Capital Markets, 8 years of service

What is your favorite part about your role?

My favorite parts of my role include working with our outstanding team, exposure to a wide variety of agricultural industries across the nation, and connections with phenomenal leadership from many different companies. Our capital markets team makes every day on the job enjoyable.

What is something people might not know about GreenStone’s capital markets department?

The capital markets team is engaged with agricultural customers across the nation, helping support other Farm Credits and financial institutions manage credit risk on large scale credit facilities. This helps GreenStone and our partners manage risk appropriately by diversifying credit risk across various industries and geographies. The capital markets team is deeply involved in the various agribusiness industries we cover, constantly monitoring industry dynamics, factors, and trends.

How does your role support GreenStone’s mission of supporting agriculture and our rural communities?

Agriculture is an interstate industry, and our GreenStone customers export numerous agricultural products outside of our territory to other producers and for further processing. Capital markets engages with other financial institutions to help ensure those producers and processors across the country have a reliable, risk-appropriate source of capital, supporting end markets for many of our GreenStone customers.

What is the most valuable lesson you’ve learned throughout your career?

I’ve been around agribusiness finance for many years and have learned numerous lessons, some easier than others. When I joined GreenStone, I found our CoreFour Values to summarize these lessons quite well. Execute these four values and you will get along just fine: Customer First, Deliver Quality, Get Involved, and Do the Right Thing.

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Andrew Shockley: VP & Managing Director of Capital Markets, 16 years of service

What is your favorite part about your role?

My favorite part about my role is definitely the people! I get to work with great people both internally and externally, starting with our capital markets team and all the adjacent teams at GreenStone that help us be successful.

What is something people might not know about GreenStone’s capital markets department?

Our portfolio has incredible variety! We cover everything from dairy to fruits and nuts, to timber, seafood, natural gas and renewable energy.

How does your role support GreenStone’s mission of supporting agriculture and our rural communities?

GreenStone provides competitive capital to the companies that grow and process the food that feeds us all, as well as the companies that efficiently provide energy and communications services to the rural communities we proudly serve.

What is the most valuable lesson you’ve learned throughout your career?

I’ve learned to be curious and adaptable. The industries we serve are evolving every day and it is important for us to be ready to move in new directions along with our customers as their businesses evolve.

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Shane Prichard: VP of Capital Markets Lending, 16 years of service

What is your favorite part about your role?

My favorite part is connecting with borrowers and my peers at other Farm Credit institutions and other banks. We work in concert with other Farm Credit institutions on syndicated loans and I’ve built some great relationships over the years. Although it spans nationwide, Farm Credit has a consistent culture throughout the organizations I’ve been privileged to work with.

What is something people might not know about GreenStone’s capital markets department?

Farm Credit has such an extensive reach into so many different aspects of the economy outside of production agriculture. Over my time in capital markets, I’ve had the pleasure of working in several different industries that one may not immediately associate with Farm Credit, such as forest product companies, consumer packaged goods and recognizable grocery store brands, telecommunications, energy companies, and others.

How does your role support GreenStone’s mission of supporting agriculture and our rural communities?

I think many people don’t realize how interconnected the global economy is (I know I’ve been guilty of this). Working with such a broad scope of industries and large-scale borrowers has made me realize that every link in the chain matters. It’s rewarding to see some of the capital markets borrowers sharing that many of their customers or vendors have grown after being existing borrowers in our agribusiness lending portfolio.

In capital markets, we help to bring many of the traditional borrowers’ products to market by financing the corporations that further process raw ingredients and/or deliver to consumers. In addition, we finance critical rural infrastructure that helps deliver power, utilities, and communication capabilities to our farmers and rural regions all throughout America.

What is the most valuable lesson you’ve learned throughout your career?

I thought I knew how important farming and agricultural production were to the global economy, but since joining GreenStone, I’ve realized my previous understanding was merely the tip of the iceberg. The amount of effort and resources that go into feeding the world are tremendous and it all starts with the backbone that is American farmers. The efficiency of the modern American farm is a marvel, and we are lucky to have their support.

 

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