Suncrest USA, Inc. | Always local. Always fresh.®

Suncrest™ is changing the way food is grown by licensing its technology to "local" greenhouse growers to address consumer demand for “locally-grown” produce.

  • Stage $500K in TTM Revenue
  • Industry Agriculture
  • Location Seattle, WA, USA
  • Currency USD
  • Founded January 2012
  • Employees 5
  • Incorporation Type C-corp
  • Website suncrestusa.com

Company Summary

SUNCREST™ is an agtech company that licenses its advanced Deep Water Culture (DWC) hydroponic technology to "local" greenhouse growers to enable them to grow premium-quality leafy-greens in high-volume, 365 days/yr. Suncrest then sells and distributes the leafy-greens our licensee grows within 100 miles from where they are grown. Whole Foods calls "local" the new organic! We have licensees in the Seattle and San Francisco Bay areas.

Team

  • James P. Day
    Chairman & CEO

    • 25+ years consulting to Fortune 500’s and founder of several start-up companies
    • His firm, The Day Group, has worked in a dozen industries, including energy and agriculture
    • Helped launch the fastest growing real estate firm in the Bay Area — Intero Real Estate
    • M.S., Systems Integration; B.A., Chemistry; Ph.D. Candidate Biochemistry

  • Gordon Snyder
    Chief Scientist

    • 30+ years working in water treatment, monitoring and resource management
    • Founder of Gordon Snyder & Consultants, well known for benchmarking water purity
    • Principle Scientist for NASA’s “Microgravity Hydroponic Plant Research” for the
    International Space Station and the future moon base
    • Ph.D., Water Quality; M.S., Water Resource Management; B.A. Instrumental Chemistry

  • Robert B. Day
    VP, Commercial Growing & Sales

    • 25+ years owner/grower of leading wholesale “color” operation in DFW market
    • General Manager/Head Grower for 128 greenhouse operation with 25+ employees
    • Helped build Vaughan-Jacklin Seed’s department sales to $10M
    • B.A., Horticulture, Cornell University

  • Ed Garth
    CFO, Finance & Operations

    • 35+ years as CFO, vp administration, board and advisory level strategic contributor in seed and early stage ventures • Former CFO, VentriPoint Diagnostics Ltd. [led reverse merger with Canadian public funding] • Co-founder of DI Software Inc. [led sale to Microsoft], formerly, Design Intelligence, Inc. • B.B.A. Accounting, Eastern Michigan University

  • Stan Mark
    Advisor: Grocery Key Accounts

    National sales working with Costco, Safeway and major retailers

  • Peter M. Morton
    Advisor: HR & Engineering

    • 42 years working for Boeing
    • Aviation Consultant with Systems Engineering and Technology LLC (SeaTec)
    • Leader in the development of the 757 flight deck & the Boeing Customer Training Center
    • Former president of AABInternational
    • B.S., Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Advisors

  • Joe Wallin (Davis Wright Tremaine LLP - Seattle)
    Lawyer
    Unconfirmed
    Ed Garth (Financial Advisor)
    Accountant
    Unconfirmed

Previous Investors

  • James P. Day
    Unconfirmed
    Larry Bender
    Unconfirmed

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