Zach Hughes leads development, operations, and digital customer product teams at CHS Inc., an Inver Grove Heights-based energy, grains, and foods company and the largest farmer-owned cooperative in the U.S. In 2023, Hughes oversaw the launch of CHS’ Single View of the Customer platform, which organizes millions of data points from primary enterprise resource planning sources and couples that with third-party data on more than 3 million growers. With the new comprehensive data set, Hughes and his team developed a custom dashboard that allows the sales team and leaders to visualize the specific needs of existing customers while identifying previously unknown opportunities. Hughes is an active speaker at technology events and runs a weekly blog and a podcast, Zach on Leadership.