Yan Skwara
Chairman / Chief Executive Officer
During Mr. Skwara's 18 years on Wall Street, he was a NASD Registered Representative and an Investment Banker. He has had Investment Banking experience managing both small and large cap market portfolios and expertise in Mergers and Acquisitions. He served as Vice President of Investments at AG Edwards and Executive Vice President of Whale Securities. Mr. Skwara brings over 11 years of experience managing early-stage private and public companies. In 1997, Mr. Skwara founded a Sports Marketing business, which owned and operated the Professional Soccer franchise in San Diego, California, the San Diego Flash. In 2005 Mr. Skwara founded and published the leading Premier Soccer Magazine, 90:00 Soccer Magazine (www.90soccer.com). In 2006, Mr. Skwara entered the farming and nursery businesses and has successfully capitalized initial farming and nursery operations for US Farms, Inc. while expanding and building its business and management team.
Rick Hogan
Chief Operations Officer / Horticulturist
Mr. Hogan began his Nursery career over 30 years ago as Nursery propagation manager for Ades & Gish Nursery. Mr. Hogan has run and built multiple nurseries including a three-year stay in Saudi Arabia as nursery manager for Riyadh's Diplomatic Quarter Nursery. Mr. Hogan was responsible for native seed collection and consulting for King Fahads park and the kings palace in Riyadh. Mr. Hogan joined US Farms, Inc. in 2006 as the companies' horticulturist. Mr. Hogan handles the day-to-day operations of the nursery facilities as well as the research and development of all agricultural operations. Mr. Hogan maintains a significant background in the plant mail order business with over 20 years of plant mail order experience
Jason Urso
Marketing Support Manager
After attending Palomar College in California, Mr. Urso began his career at First Impression Graphics in Carlsbad, CA. In 2002, Mr. Urso joined Seasilver USA. Inc., with his design and marketing ideas help grow the company to 25 million a month. With 15 years in the industry, Mr. Urso is a key element in our marketing and sales operations. Mr. Urso has extensive knowledge of production, print buying, direct marketing, trade show booth design. Mr. Urso continues to be on the cutting edge of graphic design and is instrumental in our marketing campaigns. Mr. Urso's creative idea along with technology, allows US Farms, Inc. to be become a leader in the agriculture space.
