Food, Agriculture & Beverage: Where Sector Expertise Meets Precision Consulting
Our Food, Agriculture & Beverage practice delivers specialized diligence and advisory services across both healthy and distressed situations.
Combining deep sector knowledge with proprietary tools, agronomic benchmarking, and a network of over 600 commodity experts and 100+ economists and data scientists, we provide unmatched insights with speed and precision.
From commercial and operational diligence to financial restructuring, we offer the industry’s most differentiated approach—bridging the gap between generalist advisors and niche boutiques.
Pre-Deal Strategy & Diligence
- Mapping growth opportunities across organic and inorganic pathways
- Partnering with clients to shape and pressure-test investment theses
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- Conducting commercial, operational, financial, and sector-specific diligence
- Performing financial diligence with industry-specific tax and regulatory insight
- Leveraging proprietary data for sharper commercial assessments
- Running scenario planning and wargaming to anticipate risks
- Providing specialty diligence on ESG, regulation, IP, land and water rights, and food safety
Post-Close Performance Improvement
Driving value creation through hands-on execution and targeted strategy.
- Developing and implementing strategies to boost portfolio performance
- Performing cost optimization across SG&A, manufacturing, and logistics
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- Mapping growth opportunities across organic and inorganic pathways
- Partnering with clients to shape and pressure-test investment theses
- Conducting commercial, operational, financial, and sector-specific diligence
- Performing financial diligence with industry-specific tax and regulatory insight
- Leveraging proprietary data for sharper commercial assessments
- Running scenario planning and wargaming to anticipate risks
- Providing specialty diligence on ESG, regulation, IP, land and water rights, and food safety
Crisis & Risk Management
Driving value creation through hands-on execution and targeted strategy.
- Performing operational stabilization amid supply chain delays, climate events, or labor disruptions
- Managing exposure across financial, regulatory, and ESG risk areas
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- Developing and implementing strategies to boost portfolio performance
- Performing cost optimization across SG&A, manufacturing, and logistics
- Mapping growth opportunities across organic and inorganic pathways
- Partnering with clients to shape and pressure-test investment theses
- Conducting commercial, operational, financial, and sector-specific diligence
- Performing financial diligence with industry-specific tax and regulatory insight
- Leveraging proprietary data for sharper commercial assessments
- Running scenario planning and wargaming to anticipate risks
- Providing specialty diligence on ESG, regulation, IP, land and water rights, and food safety
Proprietary Offerings
Insights built on 50m acres of benchmark agronomic data (yield, cost, sustainability, best practices, satellite imagery, what-if scenarios).
Wargaming to identify vulnerabilities, anticipate challenges, and develop robust strategies.
Access to 600+ Subject Matter Experts across 50+ commodities.
Commercial insights from real-time, patent-mapping tools, and a team that has conducted 800+ agrifood-tech evaluations.
Pivot’s ‘Better Together’ approach delivers unified, high-impact solutions
Selected Experience
Meet our Food, Agriculture & Beverage Experts
Rich Kottmeyer
Managing Director
A globally recognized thought leader in over a dozen distinct agriculture and food subsectors with over 30 years of experience, Rich has driven transformation across the food, agricultural and beverage value chain, specializing in strategy, mergers and acquisitions, turnarounds, and performance improvement. Clients include Walmart, Nestle, Unilever, Cargill, John Deere, Monsanto, ADM, Bunge, Tysons, McDonalds and others.
Sarah Rohr, PhD
Director
Sarah is a PhD agricultural economist and brings deep expertise in sustainable agriculture, value chains, market and international economics, and consumer analytics grounded in both academic research and practical experience. Her additional background in project management and platform development makes her a key asset to Pivot’s work in food and agriculture.
Steve Borse
Director
Steve brings over 15 years of operational and financial leadership, serving in multiple controller and executive financial roles in the food sector. He’s held key roles at companies like Venice Brands, Athletic Greens, and Sugarfina, where he led initiatives in cash flow management, reporting, and strategic planning.
Yoni Dolgin
Director
Yoni brings over a decade of experience representing food, agriculture and cleantech across the globe for firms such as BP Ventures and UKTI. He leads the practice’s financial modeling, forecasting, and market analysis, with a focus on supporting business growth through data-driven insights.