About Mark York

Mark York is a seventh-generation farmer from Lake Wilson, Minnesota where his family has farmed since 1930. Mark has also served as a White House fellow at the Pentagon and the White House.

As a White House Fellow, Mark worked with the Pentagon’s Office of Strategic Capital to provide low-interest loans to critical technology companies across the US, and he served with the National Energy Dominance Council in the White House to accelerate permitting and direct funding to companies producing critical minerals (Nickel, Copper, Cobalt, etc.) right here in Minnesota.  

He is the co-founder and President of Farm Yield Africa, a Minneapolis-based non-profit providing tractor services and microcredit to 1,800 farmers in Ghana since 2016. Mark worked as a consultant at McKinsey, and before that, he led a data science team at a startup building agricultural risk models.

He began his career at Cargill as a commodity trader and data scientist. Mark studied agronomy and mathematics at South Dakota State University and earned his Master’s Degree in Computer Science at Harvard University. Mark studied for his Ph.D. in Computer Science at Harvard University, where his research includes crowdsourcing and machine learning algorithms in collaboration with MIT.

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