Speakers

Nina Gerd

Portfolio Director Sponsor Finance

CoBank

Biography

Nina is the Portfolio Director in the Sponsor Finance group at CoBank and is responsible for managing the overall credit quality for agribusiness borrowers majority owned by private equity. During her 13 years with CoBank, she has worked across several lending groups including large corporate food and agribusiness, grain and farm supply, leveraged middle-market, and most recently in Sponsor Finance.

Nina is part of the fifth generation to grow up on a corn and soybean farm homesteaded in the 1860s in southeast South Dakota. She holds a BA from Augustana University in Sioux Falls, South Dakota and an MBA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.