Thomas Laurita, MPPM/PhD, President and CEO: Entrepreneur with multiple successes growing technology, manufacturing, and financial companies from start-up to exit; 20+ years consulting experience for major agricultural multinationals; former USSR Country Manager for Monsanto.

Stephan Kahn MBA, Senior VP and CFO: Harvard MBA and with 17 years experience as Managing Director at Advent International (Private Equity/VC), 10 years High Tech management (CAD/CAM)

Marc Vanacht MBA/Master of Law, VP for Business Development and Strategy: Multicultural, Belgian citizen fluent in 5 languages with 20 years managerial experience in Monsanto; 15+ years as an strategic consultant, and an internationally recognized expert and advocate on technology innovation and precision agriculture.

Marcus Jones PhD, VP for Product Development: until July 2012 a top PD manager, most recently at Monsanto (5 years) and Syngenta (10 years) with PhD in Crop and Soil Science from Michigan State. Deep experience in multiple cropping systems, product evaluation, seed technology, biotic/abiotic yield and stress testing, agronomy, experimental trial design.

Mike Bielski JD/MS, VP for Intellectual Property and Corporate Counsel: lawyer specialized in IP and patent strategy focused on biotech startups; molecular biology and neuroscience background.

Bernard Auxenfans MS, Agricultural engineer, former COO of Monsanto Agriculture Worldwide; former President and Chairman of Monsanto Europe; a French citizen and acknowledged expert on the commercialization of agricultural inputs.

Dilip Shah PhD, world-level geneticist, Monsanto Fellow, inventor on 13 relevant patents including original glyphosate resistance patents. 18 years as Monsanto scientist, from 2001-present Principal Investigator at Danforth Plant Sciences center.

Gregg Bogosian PhD, winner of the prestigious Queeny Award at Monsanto. 26 years at Monsanto as senior research scientist focused on microbial biology and production. Expert Patent Witness.

Mark Holland PhD, discoverer and patent author of the agricultural uses of PPFMs, Professor and former Chair of the Biology Department at Salisbury University (part of the University of Maryland system).