River One International Marketing, LLC

James E. Huff has been a professional executive in the Florida citrus industry for over 30 years. During this time he has been a leader in the marketing of fresh citrus in the global market place. This has involved every element of selling internationally. From opening new markets, finding import partners and developing long term relationships. Also, in developing marketing plans for retailers and in working with both foreign and the USA government to help financially support thedevelopment of the international markets for USA citrus products. In addition Mr. Huff has been a leader in the industry in working on industry issues internationally as well as in Washington and Florida.

Mr. Huff’s career accomplishments are rich and varied. His career started as Executive Director of the Indian River Citrus League, a trade association of citrus growers.
After a short stint in his family citrus business, Mr. Huff entered the international marketing arena. He started as a marketing executive with Graves Brothers Company. After 20 years Mr. Huff was invited to become President of River One International Marketing LLC..

Idustry involvement by Mr. Huff, includes 2 appointed terms to the Florida Citrus Commission. His duties included, Chairman of the Advertising Committee, Chariman of the Scientic Research Committee, Chairman of the Audit Committee as well as Vice Chairman of the Citrus Commission.

Connie Graley began her career in the citrus industry in 1981. For 22 of those years she has worked for River One International and Quality Fruit Packers. She has been involved with every aspect of the packing house and is branching out and moving more directly into sales operations.

Her immediate duties for River One include working with the Packing House in direct connection with Domestic, Export, and Fundraising sales as the Pack/Ship Coordinator. She assists the General Manager in arranging for the fruit to be packed and made available for sale, making sure that all orders are filled correctly and efficiently. Connie also handles the scheduling of containers to ports, coordinating loading-shipping export and domestic fresh fruit, material ordering and handling and many other duties ranging from computer order-entry to overseeing loading and manifesting.

Coordination of Fundraising sales has become one of Connie’s primary interests and while this activity takes place in a relative short time frame, she finds work to be challenging and rewarding.

Howard Kramer started out as a young teenager with a variety/hardware store aspiring to the position of assistant manager, buyer and corporate officer of the family-owned company. He remained with the store for 27 years.

Having completed courses in accounting and economics with International Accounting Society, and continuing credits at Edison Community College and St. Petersburg Junior College, he decided to pursue a career in accounting.

He was immediately hired as a staff accountant by a large, multifaceted Agri business dealing in farming, packing, and sales of fresh fruits and vegetables.

There, he progressed to payroll manager, accounts payable supervisor, general accounting manager, and lastly to accounts payable manager where he trained, supervised, and coordinated procedures nationwide for a large volume of payables.

He was with this corporation for 18 years, leaving with mutual regret when he moved to Vero Beach.

After a chosen 15-month hiatus, he joined the team of River One as accounting director; some of his varied responsibilities include accounts payable, accounts receivable, and general ledger.