David Pannell
General Counsel to the President
David joined CTI as General Counsel to the President, effective April 1, 2020, after having served in an intermittent consulting capacity to the Company since the summer of 2013. He comes to CTI with nearly forty-years of experience in a variety of professional and service businesses, as well as with leading institutions of higher education.
David first became engaged in the Irrigation Industry from 1997-2000, while serving as a management consultant to well-known equipment and irrigation distributor. He has also served as a guest lecturer on market strategy at the Kelly School of Business at Indiana University, as well as a multi-year engagement as Board Fellow Advisor to the Olin School of Business MBA program at Washington University in St. Louis.
A graduate of Cornell University and the University of Memphis, David is also an attorney whose principal emphasis has involved intellectual property. Over the past twenty years he has focused on the development and negotiation of acquisitions and combinations for a handful of regional and international clients in the professional services sector.
