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Biography - Bruce A. Scherr, Chairman
of the Board and CEO
Dr. Scherr has been with Informa
Economics, Inc. since 1987 in several
executive capacities including President
and CEO. In addition, he is an Advisor
for Metalmark Capital LLC, a private
equity fund. Formerly he was president
of Sparks, Jacobs, Scherr, Inc. (SJS),
and president of Agri-Commodities, Inc.,
an agriculture consulting firm based in
Andover, Massachusetts. Prior to forming
Agri-Commodities, Dr. Scherr was a
divisional vice president at Data
Resources, Inc., where he developed and
utilized for the public and private
sectors the first commercially available
econometric model for US agriculture.
Dr. Scherr received his bachelor's
degree from Rutgers University and his
M.S. and Ph.D. from Purdue University,
all in agricultural economics.
Currently, he is a member of the Board
of Trustees of the North American
Electric Reliability Corporation, E.
Ritter & Company and he serves as a
member of the Global Strategy Institute
Advisory Council of the Center for
Strategic and International Studies. He
served as a member of the Board of
Directors for Desert STAR Inc., an
electrical transmission Independent
System Operator for the Desert Southwest
from January 2000 through February 2002.
In addition, Dr. Scherr has served as a
member of The University of Tennessee’s
(UT) Institute of Agriculture
Agricultural Development Board and UT’s
Committee for the Future. He was named a
2007 Distinguished Agriculture Alumni
from Purdue University and he is a
member of several honorary research and
agricultural societies, a member of the
National FFA Foundation Sponsors’ Board
2000 through 2001 and a former advisor
to the President's Council of Economic
Advisers and National Aeronautics and
Space Administration. |
