Chestnut Hill Farms promotes Martin Jensen to director of program sales

(Photo and logo courtesy Chestnut Hill Farms; graphic by Amelia Freidline)

Chestnut Hill Farms LLC, Coral Gables, Fla., has promoted Martin Jensen to director of program sales.

The company hired him full-time in 2018. He first worked for Chestnut Hill Farms 20 years ago loading orders of asparagus. While he was in college, he managed the packing operations of a melon harvest in Pasco, Wash., for a summer, according to a news release. 

Jensen attended law school and practiced law for three years at an international bank in Miami, according the release. He was also corporate legal counsel for Sol Group Marketing Co. before joining Chestnut Hill Farms.

At Chestnut Hill Farms, his roles have included three months at a Costa Rican pineapple farm, where he was exposed to areas of production. In the past year, he was operations manager at the company’s headquarters in Coral Gables.

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