Bob Knief

Bob Knief serves as our Sector President, Agriculture, and as President of our Bartlett business. Mr. Knief joined Bartlett in 2004 where he began in domestic wheat merchandising and moved to managing Bartlett’s Mexico business as Vice President. In 2011, he was named President of Bartlett Grain and, following our acquisition of the Bartlett business in August 2018, was named President of Bartlett and our Sector President, Agriculture, in October 2019.

Mr. Knief began his career in the grain industry in 1992, working in origination with Continental Grain in Minneapolis, and in facility management in several locations before becoming an export wheat merchant in Kansas City for Continental. After Continental, Mr. Knief was a wheat merchant for Scoular Grain in Kansas City.

Mr. Knief is a graduate of the University of Illinois with a bachelor’s degree in agricultural economics.