Dr. Pamela Marrone, CEO and founder of Marrone Bio Innovations (MBI), started the company in 2006 to discover and develop effective and environmentally responsible, biologically-based products for pest management and plant health. In August 2013, she led the company IPO on the NASDAQ stock exchange. Prior to establishing MBI, Dr. Marrone founded AgraQuest (1995-2006) where she served as its CEO, Chairman and President. Before AgraQuest, she was founding president of Entotech, Inc. (1990-1995), a biopesticide subsidiary of Novo Nordisk. Pam started her career in biopesticides by leading the Insect Biology group at Monsanto (1983-1990), which was involved in pioneering projects based on natural products and plant biotechnology. Pamela Marrone holds a B.S. in entomology from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in entomology from North Carolina State University.
So there's a conversation going on around food. And how are we going to produce more food on less land and do it more sustainably? And it can be a very contentious conversation, or a debate, about whether it's going to be organic that's going to save the world or it's going to be GMOs.
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