About the Ag Syn Team
We offer the highest quality crop inputs partnered with excellent customer service and support.
Here at AgSyn, we run with a very basic strategy: People Matter Always – our people and our customers both. Our customers are family, just like our employees.
By working with the nation’s premier manufacturers of agricultural inputs, equipment, and research and development, we are a conduit to our customers’ success. We combine many years of hands-on agricultural experience with our dedicated logistics and distribution system. And when it comes to helping growers with crop issues, we provide some of the best crop specific agronomy advice in the industry.
Our business is designed to support yours. Connect with our team and we’ll do our part to make sure your operation is a success!
We are proud to be a member of the Novus Ag Network.
Meet our Team of Ag Professionals:
Jay Gearheard
Owner / Operator
Jay served in the USMC from 1999 to 2003, and one thing instilled in him from the Marine Corp is duty to ‘service of the greater good’ and that has guided his career.
He began his career in different roles while completing his degree in Accounting from Metropolitan State College of Denver. He worked for a logistics company and an office supply distributor, then entered the Ag business by working his way from warehouseman to salesman to location manager and relocating a few times in those roles.
Working for one of the largest Ag Retailers in the world, Jay recognized an opportunity to get back to that ‘service of the greater good’ – recognizing your employees and customers should be the primary focus – and so he broke out of large corporate Ag to start AgSyn.
Building this company with this team and customers is life fulfilling for Jay, who considers AgSyn one big family. As AgSyn grows, the customer and employee family grows, too.
Jay and his wife live in Colorado and have two children. Jay enjoys spending time with family, fishing, and playing bad golf when he has time.
Kevin Authelet
National Hydroponic Market Development
With many years of business ownership and a track record of developing successful startups, Kevin relates to the needs of business owners and store managers. He focuses on relationships, customer needs, and current market trends with the intent to keep his customers highly competitive in today’s markets.
The opportunity to work with like-minded people at AgSyn and Novus Ag who have the same focus and attention to customer support, has been a tremendous benefit to his success.
Kevin and his wife have two adult children. They enjoy as much time with family and friends as possible.
Joe Rasnic
Agricultural Market Development / Wholesale Dealer Sales
Joe is an agronomist who specializes in helping growers with logistical solutions and has spent his tenure analyzing data to help improve yields and efficiency while maintaining food quality and safety. After spending the last several years working in organic agriculture, Joe has developed his expertise to improve organic crops and to further develop conventional crops into sustainable production. He has a thorough understanding of all aspects in agriculture including plant and soil health.
Joe got his start as a farm hand on a large, irrigated farm in Western Nebraska. From there, he moved to agronomy consulting.
Professionally, Joe holds a Certified Crop Advisor license and has received the “Agricultural Retailers’ Association Rising Stars Award.” He is an alumni of the Colorado Ag Leadership Program and sits on the Rocky Mountain Agribusiness Association Board. He attained a Level One Advocacy certificate which adds training experience to help educate consumers and growers on issues in agriculture. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Plant Science from Dordt College in Sioux Center, Iowa.
He is a leader and an innovator in his field. Whether you are working in organics, greenhouse production, or conventional agriculture, Joe can be counted on to provide services and answers for your operation.
Claire Volk
Vegetative Management / Account Manager
Claire Volk has been rooted in agriculture from her start in Nebraska on a farming and ranching operation. Since 2015, her professional career has focused on pasture and land management in the West.
Recently, she was awarded the Guy Haggard award from the Wyoming Weed and Pest Association. This award is given to an individual who has provided motivation, friendship, loyalty, camaraderie, and support to the WWPC and its people.
Currently, she serves as the National VM Account Manager for AgSyn. Her best days in the field are spent connecting with customers, getting to know their passions, and making our partners’ businesses fruitful.
When she’s not with a customer, you can find Claire team roping or skiing somewhere out West. Just as iron sharpens iron, one man sharpens another.
Matt Everitt
Operations Manager
Born and raised on a family farm and ranch in Northeastern Colorado, Matt’s ag roots run deep. He helped his dad with all phases of growing corn, wheat, and proso millet, in addition to cow and calf production.
Matt attended Colorado State University where he earned two B.S. degrees, one in agronomy and one in agribusiness. After college, he was hired by a chemical manufacturing company and began working with their supply chain and customer service group and did so for six years.
He then worked for a large ag retail and wholesale company honing his skills in logistics and procurement before joining Ag Syn. He has become a valuable asset to their business.
He enjoys spending his off time with his amazing wife and their two young girls.
Felicia Casillas
Administrator
After completing college, Felicia accepted a position in accounting and bookkeeping in the oil field industry where she worked for 12 years. This is where she learned about and fell in love with numbers. She joined Ag Syn in August of 2020 and enjoys the fast pace of the ag industry. Felicia is looking forward to learning more about the industry as a member of Ag Syn’s team.
Felicia and her husband have five wonderful boys. They stay busy with their non-profit sport program that currently runs football, basketball, and baseball. All of their children are involved, so if you can’t find them on the weekend, they’re probably at a field or on a court. They also enjoy all things Colorado has to offer including camping, hiking, and lake trips.
Eric Quickbear
Logistics Manager
Eric was born and raised on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota and graduated from Kadoka High School. He started in the ag industry as a commercial applicator for a large co-op in South Dakota. In 2013, Eric and his family moved to Colorado to continue his career. He began working in the wholesale side of agriculture in 2016 and joined Ag Syn in 2020.
Away from work, Eric serves as a volunteer basketball coach and stays busy with all of the sporting events his children are involved in. Eric is an avid fan of all things sports. He and his wife have three children.
Jeff Hansen
Driver
With over 35 years of truck driving experience including driving trucks in 25 countries and all 50 states, let’s just say that Jeff knows what he is doing! His commitment to timely deliveries and excellent customer service is one of the big reasons for Ag Syn’s success.
Jeff and his wife have three children and live in Longmont, CO along with two dogs and twelve chickens. His hobbies iclude hunting, camping, woodworking, and welding.