Marlise is the Director of Ecosystem Partnerships at Farm Credit Canada, where she supports relationship development with key stakeholders across the agrifood tech and innovation ecosystems. Before joining Farm Credit Canada, Marlise had over 15 years of operational and business development experience with a strong penchant for supporting organizational growth, strategic partnership development and investment attraction. Her experience had led her to work at the intersection of academia, government and industry in previous roles within agtech venture capital, economic development and tourism.
She also currently serves on the Advisory Council for the Simpson Centre for Food and Agriculture Policy which has a mandate to translate fact based academic research in the agrifood sector to help inform public opinion and drive public policy. Coming from rural roots, she is now an impassioned advocate for bridging the urban/rural divide and driving change within the broader agriculture innovation ecosystem in Canada.
