Who We Are
“If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it."
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
About Josh
Josh helps clients turn roadblocks into on-ramps of new opportunities. He works with teams to identify novel value capture opportunities, to develop aggressive but achievable action plans and to execute with rigorous discipline.
Before relaunching Cambium Strategy® in 2014, he spent over eight years as CEO of Organically Grown Company, a regional distributor of organic fruits and vegetables. During his tenure, the company quadrupled in size and emerged as one of the largest and best regarded, independently owned organic food companies in the United States. Over the course of two decades, Josh built a portfolio of line and staff management experience in the United States and internationally in finance, operations management, supply chain management, and general management at Continental Grain Company, PepsiCo, Yum Brands, and AmeriServe.
He is a managing partner of a farm owned in partnership with Carman Ranch in Wallowa, Oregon; runs a small-scale orchard mason bee business that contributes its net proceeds to local non-profits; serves as a frequent guest lecturer at business schools around Oregon and is an active community volunteer. He serves as the chair of the Oregon Food Bank board of directors. Josh earned his MBA from Harvard University and an A.B. from Vassar College.
“The philosophical basis of the new agriculture lies in treating soil as a locally adapted biological system rather than a chemical system... Rooted in the complex interactions between soil, water, plants, animals, and microbes, agroecology... requires farming guided by locally adapted knowledge - farming with brains rather than by habit of convenience.”