More than 25 years of leadership and management experience in agricultural biotech startups and multinational corporations:• Expertise in genetics, molecular biology, genomics, enabling technologies, and plant breeding technologies• Great passion for discovery and enabling technologies• Strong experience leading early development of biotech traits and initiating integration into elite germ plasm• Experience leading large groups engaged in plant transformation, discovery for biochemical pathways, discovery for plant protection, discovery for agronomic traits (drought, yield fertilizer use efficiency), DNA sequencing labs, gene discovery using genetic approaches including association analysis, genetic mapping and positional cloning, and early stages of crop field development for biotech and native traits