AgraQuest Staffs Up for Serenade Launch.Business Editors &Biotechnology Writers DAVIS Davis, city (1990 pop. 46,209), Yolo co., central Calif.; settled in the 1850s, inc. 1917. It is an education center with light industry; machinery, processed foods, and computer equipment are produced. The extensive Univ. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 2, 2000 AgraQuest is pleased to announce the hiring of Scott Riba, Kurt Fondse and Brett Highland, Ph.D. to develop the market for Serenade(R) biofungicide and other products from the R& pipeline. In anticipation of registration and sales of Serenade(R), AgraQuest's new proprietary biological fungicide fungicide (fŭn`jəsīd', fŭng`gə–), any substance used to destroy fungi. Some fungi are extremely damaging to crops (see diseases of plants), and others cause diseases in humans and other animals (see fungal infection). , AgraQuest is hiring staff in key growing regions for crops such as fruits, nuts and vegetables. Mr. Riba and Mr. Fondse both came to AgraQuest from Rhone Poulenc Ag Co. where Riba was Product Business Development/Technical Sales Manager and Fondse was Retail Sales Manager. Dr. Highland joins AgraQuest from Novartis Crop Protection where he was a Field Research Scientist II. Prior to Rhone Poulenc, Riba was a Technical Sales Manager for BASF BASF Bar Association of San Francisco (since 1872; San Francisco, California) BASF Badische Anilin und Soda Fabrik (German chemical products company) BASF Builders Association of South Florida Corporation has a B.S. in Agricultural Plant Science from Cal State University, Fresno and is pursuing an MBA MBA abbr. Master of Business Administration Noun 1. MBA - a master's degree in business Master in Business, Master in Business Administration at Golden Gate University in Monterey, CA. Riba will assume the position of Regional Sales Manager, Coastal California located in Salinas Salinas, city, United States Salinas (səlē`nəs), city (1990 pop. 108,777), seat of Monterey co., W Calif.; inc. 1874. It is the shipping and processing center of a fertile valley famous for its grain and lettuce. , CA. Before Rhone Poulenc, Fondse worked for Source 1, Western Farm Service after getting his B.S. degree in Agricultural Economics from Cal State University, Fresno. Fondse will assume the position of Regional Sales Manager Northern California located in Fresno, CA. Prior to Novartis, Dr. Highland was a Field Biologist at Merck AGVET. Earlier positions included Post Doctoral Researcher at Texas A &M, Ph.D. Research Assistant at Virginia Polytechnical Institute (VPI VPI Voice Print International (Camarillo, CA) VPI Virtual Path Identifier (used in Asynchronous Transfer Mode) VPI Virginia Polytechnic Institute (aka Virginia Tech) ); and a Texas Agricultural Extension Service Agent. Dr. Highland received his Ph.D. in Entomology entomology, study of insects, an arthropod class that comprises about 900,000 known species, representing about three fourths of all the classified animal species. from VPI, M.S. in Entomology from VPI, M.S. in Plant Protection and B.S. in Entomology at University of Georgia Organization The President of the University of Georgia (as of 2007, Michael F. Adams) is the head administrator and is appointed and overseen by the Georgia Board of Regents. . Dr. Highland will assume the position of Product Development Specialist, Southeast United States located in Nokomis, FL. &uot;We are pleased AgraQuest continues to attract the best industry talent,&uot; said Kurt Schwartau, AgraQuest V.P. AgraQuest discovers, develops, and markets effective, environmentally friendly, and safe natural products for farm, home and public health pest management. Influential growers and agribusinesses and internationally recognized venture capital organizations back AgraQuest. Besides its biofungicide Serenade(R), AgraQuest has a full pipeline of other bioinsecticide, bionematicide and biofungicide product candidates for agriculture. |
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