Pasquinelli Produce Company

Our Team

Management Team

Alexander Muller

Alexander Muller
President

Alexander Müller is the President of Pasquinelli Produce, bringing extensive experience and a strong commitment to the agricultural industry. He started his career in agriculture when he joined his wife’s family’s company, an experience that ignited his passion for supporting family farms. He attended St. Mary’s of California College, majoring in literature, which improved his communication skills and nurtured his love for writing.
After college, Alexander joined AmeriCorps, working in a juvenile hall in upstate New York. This experience shaped his understanding of community service and his responsibility towards young individuals. He later became a language arts teacher in Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area, but his life took a turn when he got engaged and moved to Yuma.
In Yuma, Alexander embraced his family’s farming heritage and played a vital role in developing Pasquinelli’s food safety program. He also became actively involved in industry organizations like the Western Growers Association and the Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement, contributing to industry standards.
Alexander is enthusiastic about the potential of new agricultural technologies for the future of family farms. He hopes to inspire his three sons to carry on the legacy of advocating for the family farm.
Aside from his corporate role, Alexander actively promotes agriculture as a career choice and encourages others to join the industry. He is a dynamic leader, a staunch advocate for agriculture, and a dedicated family man. His journey from academia to Yuma reflects his enduring commitment to hard work, dedication, and love for the land. Under his leadership, Pasquinelli Produce is well-prepared for a prosperous future in the evolving agricultural landscape.

Blaine Morris

Blaine Morris
Vice President- Grower

In the summers, as a kid growing, you would often find Blaine working in the watermelon fields applying stickers, while his dad was managing the harvest crews. From the age of 9 years old Blaine has fond memories of getting up early, riding the bus to the fields and after work his mom would pick him up exhausted and excited at the same time. While in high school he worked in the “Land Lab” better known as the Research Station, growing and caring for trials of various crops. After high school, he worked for a few different seed companies while going to Arizona Western College, later continuing his education at the University of Arizona in Tuscan. While there, he worked at the University’s dairy farm. While in college, Davie Brooks the head grower for Pasquinelli called him in for an interview, was offered a job on the spot and “never looked back.” 2002 would be the year he started his professional career as a grower for the company his dad worked for and that he admired. Blaine married in 2007 and finished his bachelors of Science degree in agriculture in 2011, something he describes as being important for him and his family. Davie Brooks a few years later would retire and had been grooming Blaine to take his place from day one, and in 2013 he turned over the reigns. “I have big shoes to fill,” says Blaine.

When not at work he enjoys his wonderful family, coaching his kids in sports, and getting to enjoy the outdoors with his them. Family time is precious to him. His greatest joys working for the Pasquinelli family is the satisfaction of knowing that the fresh, healthy food he is growing is being enjoyed by people all over the world. He also likes working with his dad and knows at the end of the day, his dad (Calvin Morris) has his back and he can always count on him for support.

Blaine is impressed by the dedication and loyalty of the hundreds of Pasquinelli employees. He admires their dedication and hard work and sees them as an extension of his family. “The company takes good care of the people and they know it, that’s why they stay. We don’t expect anyone to do anything we haven’t done or wouldn’t do.”

Jeff Grober

Jeff Grober
Chief Financial Officer

Anthony Leeper

Anthony Leeper
Shop Manager

Jeff Havins

Jeff Havins
Entomologist/Plant Health Advisor

 

Farm Operations Team

Antonio Bautista

Antonio Bautista
Irrigation Foreman

Miguel Gutierrez

Miguel Gutierrez
Sprinkler Foreman

Edgar Cortez

Edgar Cortez
Tractor Foreman

Armando Arellano

Armando Arellano
Tractor Foreman

Daryl Perricone

Daryl Perricone
Assistant Grower

Atanacio Soto

Atanacio Soto
Irrigation Foreman

Davie Brooks

Davie Brooks
Grower Consultant

Calvin Morris

Calvin Morris
Grower Consultant

 

Food Safety Team

Samuel Padilla

Samuel Padilla
Food Safety Manager

Cameron Leeper

Cameron Leeper
Food Safety Assistant

 

Administration Team

Mandy Reynolds

Mandy Reynolds
Executive Assistant

Ana Luz Bejarano

Ana Luz Bejarano
Human Resources

Anahi Dowden

Anahi Dowden
Plant Application Coordinator

Chris Grober

Chris Grober
Cost/Payroll Accountant

Kaylee Jensen

Kaylee Jensen
Field Mapping-Planting Coordinator