Jeff Dlott's Email & Phone

CEO and Chairman of the Board Dr. Jeff Dlott founded SureHarvest in 1999 with a vision for achieving a sustainable agrifood system by measuring and then rewarding growers for producing public benefits like cleaner water and air, job opportunities, and vibrant communities, in addition to food. Dr. Dlott assembled a group of tech-savvy investors and dedicated management team to design the knowledge and technology systems needed to create a 'sustainability currency? for the agrifood marketplace. He has almost 20 years of experience in pest management research and the development of sustainability programs for over 25 different commodities, most notably, the California Sustainable Winegrowing Program. Dr. Dlott is a co-founder of the Sustainability Index for Specialty Crops, an initiative to design sustainability performance metrics for the specialty crop sector. He is also participating in a multi-stakeholder effort to design a Sustainability Index for Walmart to measure the impact of the production processes of Walmart's 60,000+ suppliers. Dr. Dlott received his Ph.D. from the University of California-Berkeley in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management.