About Me
Bill Raffety is a commodities executive with more than 25-years’ experience in: production, QC, logistics, risk management, farm audits / sustainability. Bill has held key executive positions in new line development, sales, client relationship management & trading.
He has extensive experience across multiple production, end user supply chains including N. and S. America, Europe, Central Asia, Africa, India and China.
His focus has been bus dev, early-stage, new market growth. He has forged business expansion into new territories. Bill has built global commodities industry relationships in both the private and public spheres for 25+ years.
Currently Bill heads up Wyatt Group's activities in the Agriculture and Food sectors, including cannabis and hemp, offering consulting, audit and verification services as well as additional support in traceability. Prior to Wyatt, he managed business flow in oilseeds from the Americas to Asia along with management support to the cotton and cocoa product lines. In his earlier capacities over the past 8 years, Bill built service offerings in Farm Audits & Sustainability. As a result of his deep understanding of cultural differences in the global regions, Bill navigates & works effectively with & leads teams of varied backgrounds.
Bill spent 12+ yrs in NY covering futures markets in Ags and Softs. He developed an analysis and risk management service. He helped launch 3 trading operations in NY & led the start-up of brokerage relationships in Brazil, India & UAE.
In the 90s, Bill was w/ Dunavant, an Intl cotton merchant, and focused on Central Asia. He was responsible for biz/dev including management & logistics and client, local govt & partner relations.
With Intl experience across nearly every sector in commodities, Bill is in a unique position to provide insight, guidance & management from production to ops to sales & trading, to farm audits & sustainability guidelines, w/ an eye on driving business & revenue.
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