Jason Brantley is Vice President, Production Systems, Small Agriculture & Turf, for John Deere. He is responsible for leading John Deere’s agricultural machinery and technology business focused on utility and mid tractors, high value crop solutions, and dairy and livestock solutions globally.

Jason is a proven marketing, business, and innovation leader who thrives on developing strategies and solutions to equip farmers with tools to help them work more efficiently, profitability and sustainably. With extensive experience in sales, product development, marketing, and channel management, Jason brings a solutions-oriented mindset that is grounded in the customer experience into everything he does. 

From 2018 to 2023, Jason served as Vice President, Sales, Asia, Africa & Middle East, successfully leading his team through a challenging period of growth and change.  For the three years prior to that, Jason served as Managing Director for the John Deere Sub-Saharan Africa Sales Branch where he and his leadership team built a solid foundation to support innovation strategy and leveraged John Deere’s unique strengths to transform agriculture on the continent for both large and smallholder farmers.

Jason began his career with John Deere in 1993 and has held leadership positions in sales, marketing, product development, product support, innovation, strategy and general management in both the Ag & Turf and Construction & Forestry divisions. Jason also serves as a board director for Amadas Industries, the leading manufacturer of peanut harvesting equipment globally, as well as a board director for the Farm Foundation. He previously served two terms on the United States President’s Advisory Council on Doing Business in Africa, where he chaired the subcommittee for Agribusiness and Food-Water policy. 

Jason received his BS in Industrial Engineering from North Carolina State University and his MBA from the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University.