Brandon Zick
The Operator
Execution, delivery and performance, gets the hard thing done.
Brandon Zick is The Operator because his mind moves straight past macro thesis-building to execution mechanics: lease structure, sourcing networks, water-table geography as practical risk controls. Where others argue farmland's investment case, the Saracen Farmland Fund CIO engineers the conditions that make returns durable across roughly two billion dollars in assets, generating proprietary deal flow through tenant relationships, insulating income with multi-year rent floors, and anchoring the whole operation in water security.
“We use our tenant network or our farmer network to try to source some of those opportunities privately.”
“If the Great Lakes region is running out of water, then everyone else already did. So it's an interesting dynamic, and so that's where we focus our investment.”
“We like multi year leases negotiated three years at a time, so even if commodity prices are moving down, our rents aren't really moving down.”
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