Full Name
Bob Leifker
Job Title
Carbon Marketing Lead
Company
Corteva
Speaker Bio
Bob Leifker (Life-Ker), grew up on a farrow to finish hog farm in southwestern Wisconsin, his family now farms corn and soybeans across Wisconsin, Illinois and Iowa. Bob started is Ag career in crop protection in 2002 and has served nearly 20 years in the agriculture industry in varies crop protection sales and marketing roles. He began his career with Corteva in 2013 as a Midwest Marketing Manager. Following the Midwest marketing role, he was a Portfolio Marketing Leader for Soybeans, Marketing Lead for Retail Strategy and the past year and a half Portfolio Marketing Leader for insecticides, specialty crop herbicides and nematicides.
Bob recently starting the newly created Carbon Marketing Leader role in October and is responsible for developing and implementing key Carbon initiatives for the U.S.
He and his wife Denise, will are now located in the Des Moines area with their three children Lily (14), Miles (10) & Brooks (1.5).