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The association is managed by a 14-member Executive Team (ET) who provide strategic direction and leadership for the association, ensuring American AgCredit continues to fulfill its mission to be the best lender to agriculture.
Curt Hudnutt
Chief Executive Officer
Cedar Falls, Iowa
Mr. Hudnutt joined American AgCredit as President and Chief Executive Officer in October of 2020. He previously led the Rural division for Rabobank, North America. Mr. Hudnutt has over 18 years of agricultural banking experience and has served in a variety of leadership roles including operations, business development, underwriting, and risk management.
Greg Somerhalder
President and Chief Operating Officer
Wichita, Kansas
Mr. Somerhalder was promoted to Chief Operating Officer on March 1, 2014. He previously served as Chief Corporate Strategist since 2013. He has over 35 years experience with Farm Credit in many areas of banking, including lending, credit, risk, and strategy.
Rachel Angress
Executive Vice President and General Counsel
Cotati, California
Ms. Angress was promoted to General Counsel in September, 2013. She previously served as Deputy General Counsel from 2012. She has over 26 years of legal experience, including years of civil and bankruptcy litigation and general legal representation for many local financial institutions.
Mike Banks
Executive Vice President and Chief Credit & Risk Officer
Greeley, Colorado
Mr. Banks has served as Chief Credit Officer since January 1, 2017. He most recently (since March 2013) served as Senior Vice President for American AgCredit, leading the association’s Credit Management Department. He has over 30 years of service to the Farm Credit System, primarily focused in various lending and credit functions.
Maryam Ghazi
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
San Rafael, California
Ms. Ghazi serves as the Chief Financial Officer. Since joining American AgCredit in 2013, she has served as the Deputy CFO, Chief Innovation Officer and Executive Head of Credit Resolution and Evaluation Services. She has more than 30 years of banking and financial consulting experience, with more than 10 years with PricewaterhouseCoopers and FTI Consulting. She has held interim CFO and leadership roles supporting companies in transition, served as a financial advisor and expert to both distressed companies and private equity firms.
Rich Hollis
Executive Vice President and Chief People Experience Officer
Columbia, Illinois
Mr. Hollis joined American AgCredit as Chief People Experience Officer in March of 2021. He brings over 25 years of executive leadership in the agricultural industry. Most recently, Mr. Hollis served as a member of the Executive Team for The Maschhoffs, the fifth largest pork production company in the U.S., leading the people strategies, environmental and sustainability initiatives, and generational transfer programs. Prior to that, Mr. Hollis led Rabobank’s people strategies.
Dave Hoyt
Chief Transformation Officer
St. Louis, Missouri
Mr. Hoyt joined AAC as Chief Transformation Officer in October 2024. With more than 30 years of experience as a strategic advisor and consultant to leaders across multiple industries, Mr. Hoyt most recently served as Chief Strategy Officer and Corporate Vice President for solution delivery at Daugherty Business Solutions, focused on driving transformation in innovation and technology. He’s experienced the challenges and the benefits of transforming businesses and his perspective from outside of the Farm Credit System will better equip us to deliver value more quickly, with better accuracy, and ultimately with a better return on our investment.
Avery Hudson
Executive Vice President and Chief Audit Executive
St. Louis, Missouri
Ms. Hudson has served as the Chief Audit Executive since July 12, 2021. She oversees the association’s governance of risk management and control. Ms. Hudson has worked in accounting, internal and external audit, and risk roles for more than 28 years. Most recently, Ms. Hudson was the North America Head of Audit with Rabobank, and before that, Senior Vice President, Head of Audit and Credit Review, also at Rabobank.
Matt Jacobs
Chief Delivery Officer
Newnan, Georgia
Mr. Jacobs joined the executive team as Chief Delivery Officer on November 1, 2024. Mr. Jacobs joined AAC in 2021 and has led multiple centralized functional teams to support effective delivery of organizational initiatives as Executive Head of Business Operations, including enterprise technology, business architecture, data management, and program, change, and business process management.
Sarah Kolell
Executive Vice President and Chief Brand Officer
Overland Park, Kansas
Ms. Kolell currently serves as the Chief Brand Officer, leading the Communications, Legislative Affairs, Marketing, and Events/Multimedia functions that connect American AgCredit and our employees with our customers and communities. In addition, she is responsible for Terrain, the research and analytics group that provides customers with business insights. Ms. Kolell has more than 20 years of experience in journalism, public relations, integrated marketing, research and analytics, and corporate communications.
Mike Lancaster
Chief Customer Value Officer
Fort Collins, Colorado
Mr. Lancaster joined the executive team as Chief Customer Value Officer on November 1, 2024 and will focus on continuing to center American AgCredit’s business on its customers, fulfilling their mission by delivering value beyond basic funding, such as via solutions, expertise, and partnerships. He will nurture long-term collaboration with farmers and ranchers to protect and grow their profitability. His career in Farm Credit has spanned from managing regional banking teams and relationships to business transformation and most recently, serving as Chief of Staff.
Luke Massey
Chief Business Technology Officer
Parker, Colorado
Mr. Massey has been named the Chief Business Technology Officer effective November 1, 2024. Mr. Massey has served as AAC’s Executive Head of Business Technology since 2021 and has a strong track record in guiding teams to develop complex technology solutions, integrating technology and process through partnership and collaboration with business leaders to deliver excellent results. He not only understands our business inside and out, but he also has a career of Farm Credit System experience.
Paula Olufs
Executive Vice President and Chief Customer Officer
Petaluma, California
Ms. Olufs currently serves as the Chief Customer Officer where she leads the centers of excellence for customer experience, product development and product delivery, uniting the association around a common vision and strategy for customer experience from the customer’s perspective. Prior to her current position she served as the Chief Innovation Officer since 2016. She has over 34 years of Farm Credit experience.
Lynn Scherler
Chief Banking Officer Elect
Denver, Colorado
Mr. Scherler assumed the role of Chief Banking Officer Elect on November 1, 2024. Previously, Mr. Scherler served as Chief Alliance Officer since September 2021 and served as Chief Lending Officer from 2017-2021. Before joining American Ag Credit Mr. Scherler served in a variety of roles for CoBank and as Interim President & CEO of Farm Credit of Southwest Kansas from October 2015 – March 2016. Mr. Scherler has over 25 years of banking experience, 24 of which have been in the Farm Credit System, with experience in the areas of relationship management, credit, and strategy.
Gary Van Schuyver
Executive Vice President and Chief Banking Officer
Monterey, California
Mr. Van Schuyver assumed the role of Chief Banking Officer in September 2021. Before assuming his current role, Mr. Van Schuyver held positions as the Senior Vice President – Corporate Banking and as Senior Vice President–Western District. He has over 34 years of service to the Farm Credit System, primarily focused on corporate finance, loan syndications, and agribusiness lending.
