Ryan W. Shepherd, PhD (Chief Executive Officer)
Dr. Ryan Shepherd received a BA in Organismal Biology from Beloit College (Beloit, WI) and a PhD in Plant Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of Kentucky (Lexington, KY). He has 4 years of postdoctoral research experience at the University of California-Berkeley, including 2 years as a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Microbial Biology, and has authored numerous peer-reviewed articles on topics relating to plant surfaces and pathogen control.
George J. Wagner, PhD (Chief Scientific Officer)
Dr. George Wagner has been a professor at the University of Kentucky(Lexington, KY) for over 25 years, where he has intensively studied leaf surface biochemistry and the biosynthetic mechanisms of secreting glandular trichomes and Phylloplane biology. Dr. Wagner has authored almost 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters and dozens of patents and patent applications.
Colin Shepherd, PhD, MBA (Chief Operating Officer)
Dr. Colin Shepherd received a BS in Agricultural Biotechnology from theUniversity of Kentucky (Lexington, KY), a PhD in Genetics from Iowa State University (Ames, IA), and an MBA from Iowa State University(Ames, IA). Dr. Shepherd has published papers on the optimization of transgene expression in plants using novel synthetic promoters. Dr. Shepherd founded AimsBio LLC, a agricultural analytics service provider that provides high-throughput analytics to the ag industry.