Former executive director Megan Vollstedt has left the Iowa AgriTech Accelerator to begin as the Agronomy & Technology Editor at Successful Farming, a Meredith Corporation publication. Vollstedt, who began at Successful Farming last week, was the first director at the Iowa AgriTech Accelerator. The accelerator launched the first cohort in 2017 and selects six international agtech startups a year to take part in the summer accelerator and present during the World Food Prize in October. Entrepreneur-in-residence Kerty Levy has been named interim director as the Board of Directors begins the search for a new executive director, said Mike Colwell, executive director of entrepreneurial initiatives at the Greater Des Moines Partnership. Read more at innovationIOWA.