J. Philip Gottwals is the Managing Member of ACDS, LLC and an economic development planner with 27 years of experience working in rural and resource-based economies. His recent projects include strategic and business planning for public and private sector clients in Maryland and Virginia; regional studies of food marketing systems in Pennsylvania, New York, and Maryland; and the redesign of several urban food marketing systems, including work in New York City, Baltimore, Maryland, and Columbia, South Carolina. Over the last decade, Mr. Gottwals has assisted clients in raising over $700 million in project financing for agricultural and food related projects. Philip is an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland College of Agriculture and Natural Resources where he teaches special topics related to the economics of local agriculture. Philip is also an instructor of entrepreneurship in resource-based industries and co-author of “Tilling the Soil of Opportunity.”
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