Senior Advisor

SriRaj Kantamneni (Sri) is a 20-year veteran of the Ag and Food industry, currently a Senior Vice President & Chief Information and Digital Officer at Schreiber Foods. Prior to this, he held various leadership roles at Cargill for nearly 20 years. Sri has worked in six different countries, in Asia, Latin America and Europe, and understands the world’s growing need for healthy, nutritious, and sustainable food and protein. He’s also been involved in and seen firsthand, the many disruptive and transformative trends impacting food and agriculture today.

Sri personally invests and advises start-ups and early-stage companies in this transforming industry through as a partner and co-founder in his own venture fund, Azul Ocean Ventures. In his last role at Cargill, as Managing Director in Digital Insights, Sri invested in disruptive and early stage technologies serving the aquaculture and livestock industries. These transformative technologies like computer vision and acoustics unlocked new and unique insights enabling modern farming operations to glean untapped value. Today, at Schreiber Foods, a leading dairy, cheese and alternative beverage company, Sri leads the technology and digital organization.

Sri received his bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from Iowa State University and M.B.A. from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. Sri grew up in the heartland of the United States in Iowa City, Iowa, but now lives in Green Bay, Wisconsin.