AGRICAP GROUP - Key Persons

With over 21 years of experience in the insurance industry, David Buss specializes in working with farms in all of their planning needs. His goal is to take complex ideas and make them simple to understand and implement. Before starting AgriCap Group, LLC, he had run his own company and held management positions for national financial planning organizations. David received his degree from Ridgewater

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• President of Enterprise Ag Strategies

Dennis is currently the President of Enterprise Ag Strategies, LLC, a holding company for 3 ag businesses. He grew up on a farm in Iowa and has been an active farmer. He became involved in crop insurance in 1977 as a loss adjuster for the USDA-Federal Crop Insurance Corporation. He has been active in crop insurance at all levels and is acknowledged nationally for innovation in crop insurance policy development and policy administration integration with precision ag technology. Notable work efforts include the development of the production plan crop-hail policy and the integration of precision ag technology and data into the USDA. He has also developed numerous crop insurance policies for the USDA-Risk Management Agency that are now being sold throughout the United States. He has worked on executive management teams of five crop insurance companies, and has served on the National Crop Insurance Services and American Association of Crop Insurer Board of Directors. He has served as the Chair of the AgGateway Precision Ag Council; and has been a member of the AgGateway Board of Directors, the AgGateway Strategic Board of Directors and is currently a member of the AgGateway North America Steering Committee. He led the development of the AgGlossary for AgGateway (AgGlossary.org) and is directly involved in the development of an agriculture-controlled vocabulary through the AgGateway AgriSemantics Working Group. He is currently the President of Enterprise Ag Strategies, LLC, an agricultural risk management holding company that is contracted with the AgriCap Group, which provides specific risk management solutions for American agriculture to help assure profitability and sustainability for agriculture agribusinesses and individual farm operations.

Mr. Otte has over 37 years of experience in the banking, insurance, and investment industry. Mr. Otte spent 27 years with a financial institution as Vice President and Director. In 1982, Mr. Otte earned his designation as a Certified Insurance Counselor. In 1998, he formed G.P. Agencies, an independent property and casualty insurance agency, and he later formed Unity Financial, Unity Farm Estate Services Otte is a past president of the Minnesota Professional Insurance Agents Association, a member of the