Paul Pittman

Paul grew up in a farming family and has been buying and operating farms on his own account since 1999. Paul founded Farmland Partners in April of 2014 by contributing approximately 7,300 acres of high-quality farmland, mostly in the U.S. Midwest. Since that time Farmland Partners has continued to grow and now owns approximately $1 billion of farmland across 17 states. Before devoting full attention to production agriculture, Paul was a public company CFO (Jazz Technologies), investment banker (Merrill Lynch, Wasserstein Perella) and lawyer (Sullivan & Cromwell). He has a B.S. in Agriculture from the University of Illinois, an M.P.P. from Harvard University, and a J.D. with Honors from the University of Chicago.