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Agri Smart, Inc. plant employees and farmers at the Agri Smart, Inc. Palm Oil Processing Plant in Dabou, Côte d'Ivoire
AgriSmart team: is a collaboration of top expert entrepreneurs consisting of Americans, native Ivorians and dual Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) / US citizens, with notable prior business success in sustainable agriculture, international business development, public-private partnerships, and startups.
Agri Smart, Inc. Leadership
- H. David Meyers, Chairman, Founder, CEO Chief Executive Officer
- Bonita Brisker, Principal, Co-founder, COO Chief Operating Officer
- Michel Lodugnon, Co-founder, Côte d'Ivoire President
- Claude Michel Dutauziet, MD, Director, Plant Operations
AgriSmart Team Bios
H. DAVID MEYERS
Chairman | Founder | CEO Chief Executive Officer

H. David Meyers, is an entrepreneur, attorney and businessman with many diverse talents. After graduating from the University of Miami, he earned his J.D. degree at George Washington University Law School. As an innovative and successful industrialist, he has created, developed and prospered in several companies that have been listed on the NYSE. He was chairman of the board for TimeSaver/Mastercard and Visa. Meyers is also a world-renowned oboist, performing extensively throughout America to critical acclaim in virtually every major concert venue, from Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center to the Kennedy Center, performing with the New York City Symphony Orchestra, New York City Center Opera, Miami Philharmonic, and the Virginia Chamber Orchestra to respectively name a few. H. David is a strong supporter with deep passion for the Wounded Warrior Trust Programs, thus beginning his own non-profit organizational branch as founder and Executive Director of Beethoven Found for Wounded Warriors.
AgriSmart Chairman, H. David Meyers, is chief strategist as well as being a hands on leader. He is an active participant director intimately involved with every facet of AgriSmart operations. In addition to leading AgriSmart headquarters activities in the US, Meyers has personally touched every production element used in AgriSmart functions in Côte d'Ivoire from the palm oil saplings and trees grown by the farmers cooperative in Côte d'Ivoire, the farming equipment used to harvest the palm oil pods, the trucks transporting the palm oil pods to the processing plants, the pipelines carrying the crude palm oil from the storage facilities at the port in Abidjan to the ships, to the tanker ships exporting the palm oil final product to international customers worldwide.
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BONITA BRISKER
PRINCIPAL | Co-founder | COO Chief Operations Officer

Bonita Brisker, Principal, brings 25 years of experience in project management across a diverse area of media and corporate operations. A consultant within a network of international luminaries, specializing in budgets, contracts and deliverables. Executive Producer at the helm of million-dollar independent film projects, Bonita has worked in collaboration with Columbia, Sony, Paramount and other mass-media conglomerates. Using her global business ties, Bonita brings together this experience with cause-related marketing, “feeding the world” through impact entrepreneurship. Bonita is CEO of Brisk Enterprises.
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MICHEL LODUGNON
Co-founder | President, Côte d'Ivoire

Michel Lodugnon is a native Ivorian and dual Côte d’Ivoire / US citizen with notable international business development, public-private partnerships, and startup experience. Mr. Lodugnon has provided economic and financial advisory services to international governments, organizations and companies. He identifies and analyzes business opportunities in the US agro-industry sector, for potential matchmaking with public or private sector entities in developing countries. For example, in 2006-2007 Michel structured the team and package for purchase of the NESTLE factory plant in Fulton (upstate) New York - the buyer was the government of Côte d’Ivoire. He also provides strategic advisory services to coffee and cocoa producing countries, to add value to their export commodities.
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Claude Michel Dutauziet, MD
Director, Plant Operations

Claude Michel Dutauziet, MD is a respected Côte d’Ivoire physician to local farmers. Claude is also a recognized palm oil farming expert with years of expertise from his family's ownership of a several thousand hectares palm oil farming operation. He is the leader of a palm oil farmers’ cooperative that provides AgriSmart with pods for pressing and processing into raw palm oil. Mr. Dutauziet manages AgriSmart, Inc. palm oil operations in Côte d'Ivoire from farm to port in Abidjan.
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