Bangya Ma, PhD
-Founder, CEO
-25 years of biopesticide industry leaderships at product discovery, development, registration and marketing
-Excels at identifying unmet market needs, leading groundbreaking research, and translating findings into game-changing products
-Veteran in Cross-functional and Cross-cultural projects and negotiations
-Extensive management consulting experiences working with senior executive stakeholders to deliver projects on time and on budget
-MBA, Tsinghua CLC(Commodity Liaison Committee) member
-20 years progressive Corporate Accounting experience with full cycle General Ledger, Budgeting, Reporting and ERP
-8 years in supervisory capacity and 2 years Big 4 auditing plus SOX/SOC 1
-Master in Accounting, Clemson University
Advisory Board
Jiarui Li, PhD, MBA
-CEO of Innatrix
-Former roles at Bayer CropSciences and Simplot
-Raised $4M+ in funding for agtech innovation
-Pulished 30+ papers and holds 2 patents
-Active mentor and advisor in the agtech community
Armando Monterosso
-R&D Director at Brooks Tropicals
-47 years R&D in agriculture
-Specializes in tropical fruit production, research, research, quality assurance, port operations and logistics.
-FRAC(Fungicide Resistance Action Committee) member
-USDA IR-4 CLC(Commodity Liaison Committee) member
Key Influencer
Mike Beldsoe, PhD
-45+ years in Agriculture
-Founding member BPIA
-Facilitated registration for all Crop Protectants for greenhouse vegetable industry via IR-4 program
-USDA panel review for NIFA grant selection 2019, 2021-2023
Internships
Vera Chen, PhD, MBA
– MBA in Finance and Strategy from Emory Goizueta Business School, with experience in conducting market research and developing go-to-market strategies for biotech startups
– Faculty at Emory University School of Medicine with 10+ years of research in autoimmune diseases.