Brock Phillips currently serves as President.  He is originally from Kansas and came to North Carolina in 2005 to attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Upon graduation in 2009, he began working with sheep as the livestock manager on a diversified produce and livestock farm in Hillsborough, NC, raising grass-fed beef and lamb and pasture-raised pork and poultry. Since 2016, Brock has focused on integrating sheep grazing into the vegetative management on utility-scale solar farms. This includes managing a network of livestock producers across North Carolina to utilize their sheep flocks on utility-scale solar farms, including best practices for grazing and advice on production, processing, and marketing from 2016 to 2017 and then joining Carolina Solar Services (CSS) in 2018 as the Director of Livestock Services. In this current role, he develops and implements solar grazing plans within CSS’s portfolio of projects with a flock of 260 Katahdin breeding ewes across hundreds of acres of utility-scale solar projects. He believes that solar grazing offers a new, unique opportunity for sheep producers, particularly in the eastern United States, and is dedicated to ensuring farmers take advantage of the opportunities within the renewable energy industry. He lives in Cedar Grove, NC with his wife, their daughter and son, and two border collies.