Bangya Ma, PhD

-Founder, CEO, CSO

-25 years of biopesticide industry experiences both China and US at product discovery, development, registration and marketing

-Leaders in Cross-functional and Cross-cultural projects and negotiations

– PhD in Plant Pathology, Penn State University

Toni Bucci, PhD

-Commercial Lead

-Former COO AgBiome, Inc.

-20+ years BASF

– Chair, AgTech Council, NC Biotech Center

– Recipient WIA Demeter Award, excellence in agribusiness

– Established business leader

Tianyou Wu, MBA

-Co-Founder

-Strategic planning between finance, operation,  procurement, sales and IPO

-Extensive management consulting experiences working with senior executive stakeholders to deliver projects on time and on budget 

-MBA, Tsinghua

Judy Zhu, CPA

-Financial Director

-Financial controller & CPA

-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

Michael Bledsoe, PhD

-40+ years of pesticide regulatory expertise

-25 years USDA IR-4 as Manager Biopesticide, Organic and International Capacity Building Programs

-Has facilitated successful registrations of numerous biopesticides

-An expert on international MRL harmonization

Michael Bledsoe, PhD

-VP, Food Safety & Regulatory Affairs with Village Farms

-45+ years in Agriculture

-Founding member BPIA

-Has facilitated registration for all Crop Protectants for greenhouse vegetable industry via IR-4 program

-USDA panel review for NIFA grant selection 2019, 2021-2023

Rachel Lee, MBA

-25+ years strategy consulting experience with life science industry

-Managing partner at Hillside Consulting LLC

-Former Partner and Managing Director at Boston Consulting Group

-Former China President at Shire Plc (now Takeda)

-MBA Wharton Business School 

Armando Monterosso

-R&D Director at Brooks Tropicals

-47 years R&D in agriculture

-Specializes at 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