Farm Finance Specialist
Anna operated her own artisan cheese company for 11 years, so she has experience starting and building small food businesses from the ground up. This entrepreneurship helped her gain knowledge in business plan creation, branding, marketing, accounting, pricing structures, distribution, and logistics. She also obtained valuable insights on securing bank lending and attracting equity investors, in addition to managing the day-to-day finances and bookkeeping. She is passionate about the dairy industry and has worked closely with farms and food operations.
Prior to founding Landmark Creamery, Anna worked as a project manager for 10 years, coordinating timelines, budgets, and deliverables for both electronic medical record programs and financial institutions. She also spent time as a Financial Specialist at the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources helping businesses remediate previously contaminated land for commercial use.
During all these endeavors, she has professionally written for publications in the food and agricultural space, including a decade at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel writing a weekly cooking column and features on food businesses and farmers.
Anna is an ardent supporter of local food systems and farming. She seeks to create meaningful relationships and connections that allow new and unique businesses to thrive and to help entrepreneurs create the tools and systems they need to help manage their businesses.
She is based in Verona, Wisconsin, with her two teenage boys, an enormous orange cat, and a tiny, speckled pup. Anna enjoys browsing farmers markets, being outdoors, and traveling.
- BA, Environmental Studies, Urban Studies – Brown University
