Marcel Barbier, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Vero Beach, Fl, Us

Louisville, Kentucky, Us

Nutrient Solutions by Humic Experts

ABC Organics, LLC is committed to supporting the agricultural community by doing scientific-practical research trials of soil and plant nutrition, crop protection, and biostimulants. ABC Organics, LLC performs market research to better understand farmers' real needs over induced needs and based on findings makes business strategies recommendations. ABC Organics, LLC, consults individual customers as well as corporations to develop new products going from R&D and Registration to Sales & Marketing. ABC Organics, LLC offers translation services of agricultural-related documents, books, and scientific articles mainly from English to Spanish, and to Portuguese and vice-versa, and under request to other languages.

Oslo, No

I was contracted to perform market research in Northern California to determine the level of Yara awareness, to analyze the level of relationship of Yara Sales team has with distributors and farmers, and to develop a method to collect information about farmers' planting area by crop in this specific region. After data collection, I developed a process for data cleansing and processing to final guesstimate the biological sales potential for Yara products in that specific region per farm per crop. Around 3000 contact information was collected and processed. Finally, data was transferred to marketing for work on the interfaces to load the data into Yara’s CRM software. During the time of data collection, I established a good relationship with the personnel at the different Departments of Agriculture in the top 10 counties in Northern California.

London, Greater London, Gb

I continuously developed and promoted a “Safety First” as an injury-free company philosophy. My main responsibility was to develop key relationships with potential customers, coordinated research, field trials, and create innovative programs leading Latin America product trials. I also had to provide technical support to Sales Managers and customers about the use of boron in crop nutrition and crop protection. I also presented Rio Tinto's research findings at several international conferences including the Argus Added Value Fertilizer, TFI, and other conferences. I consulted the global agriculture team and presented at different conferences in China. The powerpoint I created for training still being used by every member of Rio Tinto - US Borax global agriculture team.

Carson, Ca, Us

My main responsibility was to ensure the company was recognized as a partner by fulfilling obligations to the community. Other responsibilities I had was to provide technical support to operations to ensure production and business goals were accomplished, assisted the sales and marketing teams to meet sales and profit objectives, oversaw and supervised the design and execution of multivariate studies of current and new products, and interacted closely with universities, laboratories, distributors, key customers, and other producers.

Petach Tikva, Il

While studying and working on my Ph.D. degree, I consulted Stk by designing and coordinating field experiments for Timorex Gold for several research studies in various crops in Latin America. My collaboration with Stk led to the major significance discoveries, such as the discovery of the mode of action of Timorex Gold, the compatibility of Timorex Gold with QoI inhibitor fungicides that have lost efficacy due to resistant development by pathogens, and the soil activity of Timorex Gold on controlling Monosporascus cannonballus, a soil born pathogen that causes vine decline on cucurbits. My work was very important for Timorex Gold obtained the Agrow Award for the Best New Biopesticide in 2013 and for the Best Marketing Campaign in 2015.

Petach Tikva, Il

After left Syngenta, I became a partner with Peter Tirosh (RIP), and registered Stockton in Central America and the Dominican Republic. During the time I was partnering Peter, I managed all company activities from opening offices, hiring personnel, developing and registering products, launching products, up to marketing and sales. During that time, I team up with the company Director of Operations to deploy new equipment for production and packing processes and participated at the executive team meetings to develop the company growth, development, and execution strategy.

Gainesville, Florida, Us

At the end of 2009, my partner and President of Stockton sold half of his shares and invited me to sell back my shares. The offer was good and I applied to Dr. Yuncong Li, Graduate Program at the Soil and Water Department at the University of Florida. I studied the potential of polyhalite mineral as a multi-nutrient fertilizer, and published the dissertation: “The Potential of Polyhalite as Multi-Nutrient Fertilizer for Corn”. During the time I studied the doctorate I also researched and assisted different projects with laboratory, greenhouse and field activities to address nutritional deficiencies and problems related to pests and disease management on vegetables and tropical fruits. During that period of time, I had the opportunity to do an internship at J&C Tropicals and another at B&W Quality Gowers.

Gainesville, Florida, Us

At B&W Quality Growers I helped them to study the nutrition and pests on watercress. I determined how leafhoppers affect watercress by transmitting a disease caused by phytoplasmas and recommended a course of action. I also improved their fertilization and irrigation systems by providing methods for solving problems of clogged fertilizer in the injection lines. Finally, I enhanced the calculation of water pumps needed to properly run water flow at Florida and Tennessee farms.

Gainesville, Florida, Us

During this internship, I diagnosed sweet potato, mango, and avocado production systems and based on my findings developed a production plan for these crops including crop management, nutrition, and protection. Finally, I also developed a strategy to address urgent harvesting and packing issues during nights, weekends, and/or holidays.

Basel, Basel, Ch

I was transferred from Brazil to Mexico to focus on the development and implementation of the sales multi-channel and E-business strategies for the country linked to the global ERP and CRM systems. My main activities focused on the development and negotiation of contracts with suppliers of raw material, transportation, and packing as well as with market research agencies. I also lead the supply chain team from procurement of technical grade materials to distribution of finished products and managed the demand forecasting process to ensure uninterrupted supply to production facilities.

Basel, Basel, Ch

At this position, I developed and implemented the direct sales strategy under the CRM strategy for Latin America. I managed all CRM relationships database from raw material suppliers to farmers as end users, and developed the Latin America CRM team, ensuring all members had annually performance reviews, goal setting, and skill set improvement reviews. During the early 2000s, there was an epidemic of soybean rust in Brazil, the CRM strategy that I was leading helped to understand how this fungus was spreading throughout the country. As a result of this strategy (OTO), a pre-alert system was designed and implemented helping farmers to prevent the attack of the disease. Syngenta sales in Brazil increased dramatically that year.

Basel, Basel, Ch

As Product Manager, I conducted competitive and price analysis for the fungicides product line and determined the product line SWOT analysis. Then, I developed a 5-year product and financial strategies and action plans based on market share and trends research, and response to product line SWOT analysis according to competitive product and price research. Part of my responsibilities was also toprovide support information to the sales team for use in competitive fungicides training.

Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, De

As E-Business Manager, I designed and implemented the e-Business strategy for Bayer CropScience Mexico. Managed all e-business analytics, setting and reporting KPI benchmarks and metrics, and developed online promotional and product content enhancement.

Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, De

I was responsible for Bayer products quality systems, product-related hazard communication, and management (Safety Data Sheets and Labels), and pesticides registrations. I also coordinated the crop protection products registration and media relationship. Reviewed and advised on marketing claims and intellectual property, such as trademarks, and elaborated educational training material about the process that takes the development of a pesticide going from molecular screening up to field trials. This material was used by Bayer and the Crop Protection industry to train pesticide registration government officers, and until day part of this material still in use.

St. Louis, Missouri, Us

I was responsible for all sales related functions within Guatemala banana, coffee, and corn area. I developed long term and good relationships with department heads for Bayer, the largest crop protection retailers in the country. I worked with over 20 locations, visiting assigned locations regularly as Monsanto products territory expert educating and training Bayer sales team. Launched and developed RIVAL™, a granulated glyphosate formulation; and RANGER™ especial formulation of glyphosate to use in banana plantations. Served as the representative of Monsanto before the Guatemalan Association of Pesticides Importers (Agrequima) and Croplife.

Étoy, Vaud, Ch

I was responsible to meet and/or surpass KPI’s as set by the company for banana growth, production targets and adherence to the budget. Coordinated farm crew management, installations and equipment maintenance, fertilizing, irrigation, spraying, ground maintenance, pest management, harvest, and packing. Finally, I had also to review and approve all administrative paperwork for the farm crews in regards to payroll, training's, evaluations, promotions, and terminations.

Ph.D., Soil & Water Science With Minor In Plant Health Management

Master Of Science, Crop Protection In The International Commerce

Bachelor Of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Agronomy And Crop Science

Associate'S Degree, Agriculture And Phithotechnist Specialized In Horticulture