Elizabeth Ryan developed a passion for agriculture from earlier generations and is CEO of Breezy Hill Orchard.
Developed for and sold to thousands of New Yorkers in the Union Square Green Market, their products include apples, pears, peaches, plums, nectarines, and the value-added products that come from these fruits. The most significant of these value-added products is draft cider, for which the company aggressively raised private equity to launch a national product.
Elizabeth Ryan is a graduate of Cornell University.
Early on, I think one of the areas where we were weak is we had sort of a conventional, I might say, accounting background. But we built a model, a financial model, and we now have a very, I think, a fairly sophisticated financial model that is entirely customized to this business. We had an inves...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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