OUR TEAM:
Our seasoned management team brings a track-record of excellence in execution, and successfully bringing disruptive technologies to market.
Hortense
Dodo PhD, Co-Founder
and President, has worked as a professor of Food Biotechnology for over 20 years.
She has successfully established a competitive research and teaching program in
molecular biology and biotechnology, earned over $20 million in research grants
and co-authored over 200 publications and scientific presentations.
Koffi
Konan PhD,
Co-Founder and CSO, brings over 20 years of R&D experience with deep
expertise in peanut tissue culture and transfor-mation, immunology, molecular
biology, and genetic engineering. He worked previously at the Scripps Research
Institute and the Danforth
Plant Science Center.
John Salmeron PhD, Director of R&D, has over
25 years of expertise in strategic design and implementation, genetic
engineering, project management, and business development, having formerly
worked with agribusinesses such as Syngenta, Intrexon and Precision
BioSciences.
Susanne Kjemtrup PhD, Director of Operations,
complements our management team, bringing relevant interdisciplinary excellence
as
a technical consultant with more than 20 years of experience in the
agricultural biotechnology sector, having worked for Monsanto.