Full Name
Chris Eckert
Job Title
President
Company
Eckert's Inc
Speaker Bio
Chris Eckert.
Chris Eckert is the President and CEO of Eckert’s Country Store and Farms in Belleville, IL. Chris is a member of the seventh generation of Eckerts to farm in St. Clair County. Eckerts grows approximately 600 acres of fruit and vegetable crops and operates a farm market, restaurant, garden center and the largest pick your own fruit business in the country.
Chris has a B.S. in Agricultural Economics from the University of Illinois. He started his career with Shaw’s Supermarkets in Boston, MA as a fruit buyer and then worked as production manager for Custom Cuts, a vegetable processing company, in Columbus, OH.
Chris is the current President of the Board for Memorial Hospital in Belleville, IL. Chris is the Past President of the Greater Belleville Chamber of Commerce and the Belleville Rotary Club.
Chris also serves the fruit industry as Past President of the National Peach Council, and the Illinois State Horticulture Society. He has advocated on behalf of the fruit industry for immigration reform both locally and nationally.
Chris is married to his high school sweetheart, Angie. Angie also works in the family business and serves as the Vice President of Retail Operations. They reside in a historic family home on their farm in Belleville with their children, daughter Ella and son Theo.
Chris Eckert is the President and CEO of Eckert’s Country Store and Farms in Belleville, IL. Chris is a member of the seventh generation of Eckerts to farm in St. Clair County. Eckerts grows approximately 600 acres of fruit and vegetable crops and operates a farm market, restaurant, garden center and the largest pick your own fruit business in the country.
Chris has a B.S. in Agricultural Economics from the University of Illinois. He started his career with Shaw’s Supermarkets in Boston, MA as a fruit buyer and then worked as production manager for Custom Cuts, a vegetable processing company, in Columbus, OH.
Chris is the current President of the Board for Memorial Hospital in Belleville, IL. Chris is the Past President of the Greater Belleville Chamber of Commerce and the Belleville Rotary Club.
Chris also serves the fruit industry as Past President of the National Peach Council, and the Illinois State Horticulture Society. He has advocated on behalf of the fruit industry for immigration reform both locally and nationally.
Chris is married to his high school sweetheart, Angie. Angie also works in the family business and serves as the Vice President of Retail Operations. They reside in a historic family home on their farm in Belleville with their children, daughter Ella and son Theo.
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