Kyle Freedman

Kyle Freedman

Kyle Freedman is the global Market Segment Manager CEA for Jiffy Group responsible for providing technical guidance and support to Jiffy’s global CEA customers and helping to drive market expansion. Kyle holds a BA in Philosophy from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. He earned his MSc. in International Agriculture Development from the University of California at Davis with a concentration in Horticulture and Agronomy where his research focused on climate-smart, small-scale postharvest processing systems of coffee in Honduras. He is currently a PhD Candidate at North Carolina State University in the Department of Horticultural Sciences where his research focused on the development of a new grapevine production system called Precise Indoor Vine Conditioning (PIVC) in which young grapevines are conditioned with supplemental light to produce fruit in their first season of field transplanting. With 13+ years of experience, Kyle was a Sr. Project Management Specialist at RTI International prior to graduate school where he was a part of their global food security and agriculture team managing over $150 million in USAID and USDA development projects in East Africa and Southeast Asia.