Elliott Grant

General Manager
, X
Profile / Bio: 

Dr. Elliott Grant is a recognized business leader and innovator in food and ag tech. He is the General Manager of Mineral at X, Alphabet’s “Moonshot Factory.” The mineral is using machine learning (ML) and robotics to scale sustainable agriculture globally. He was the founder and CEO of HarvestMark, the world leader in fresh food traceability (acquired by Trimble); the CEO of ShopWell, a personalized nutrition company; and served as the Vice-Chair of the Produce Marketing Association, a global industry organization, and chaired its Science & Technology Committee. Elliott was a consultant at McKinsey & Company. He earned his Ph.D. and MEng in Engineering from Cambridge University and is the author of covering topics ranging from cryptography and food traceability to satellite image analysis and plant phenotyping. He lives in California with his wife and daughter.