Marrone Bio Innovations’ SVP and Chief Sustainability Officer Elected to the Biopesticide Industry Alliance Board
September 29 2016 - 7:00AM
Marrone Bio Innovations, Inc. (NASDAQ:MBII) (MBI), a leading
provider of effective and environmentally responsible pest
management and plant health products, announced today that the
Company’s Senior Vice President of Regulatory and Government
Affairs and Chief Sustainability Officer, Keith Pitts, was elected
to a three year term on the Board of Directors of the trade group
the Biopesticide Industry Alliance (BPIA).
At MBI, Keith leads the Regulatory and Government Affairs
function, which also includes Quality Control and Assurance. Keith
has been instrumental in MBI’s success of getting multiple unique,
new Biopesticide Active Ingredients through the EPA process. He
also helped pioneer the acceptance of the first of its kind
bioinsecticide, Grandevo, into the EU Green Deal Initiative being
led by the government of the Netherlands.
Keith has served in numerous senior legislative, administrative,
regulatory and public policy roles for more than three decades, and
has been actively involved in shaping domestic and international
policies regarding pesticides, organic agriculture, agricultural
biotechnology, invasive species, climate change, specialty crops
and food safety. In the early 1990s, as a subcommittee staff
director for the US House of Representatives Committee on
Agriculture, Keith, seeking to promote the commercialization of
reduced-risk pesticides, led a multi-stakeholder initiative to
create a regulatory framework specifically for biopesticides.
He joined MBI in 2008, after working at the U.S. Department of
Agriculture as a special assistant to Secretary Dan Glickman and to
Deputy Secretary Richard Rominger, who also serves on MBI’s Board
of Directors.
BPIA’s mission is to increase the awareness of biopesticides as
effective products, realize further improvements to the regulatory
process around the world, and provide valuable networking
opportunities for our members. The Biopesticide Industry
Alliance (http://www.bpia.org), now with over 100 members, was
formed in the year 2000 after Pam Marrone (MBI’s CEO and Founder),
while leading AgraQuest, sent a letter to industry colleagues
inviting them to help form a trade group to enhance the perception
and to increase adoption of biopesticides, and to improve
consistency and transparency of the regulatory process. Many of
those founding BPIA members are still active, such as Valent
Biosciences, Certis USA and Bioworks; others (AgraQuest and Becker
Underwood) have been acquired by larger companies who are now BPIA
members. Jeff Blackwood of BASF was also elected to the BPIA Board
at the fall meeting.
About Marrone Bio Innovations
Smart. Natural. Solutions.Marrone Bio
Innovations, Inc. (NASDAQ:MBII) strives to lead the movement to a
more sustainable world through the discovery, development and
promotion of biological products for pest management and plant
health. Our effective and environmentally responsible
solutions help customers operate more sustainably while controlling
pests, improving plant health, and increasing crop yields. We have
four products for agriculture on the market (Regalia®, Grandevo®,
Venerate® and Majestene®), and also distribute Bio-tam 2.0® for
Isagro USA in the western U.S. MBI also markets Zequanox® for
invasive mussels for water markets. We also have a proprietary
discovery process, a rapid development platform, and a robust
pipeline of pest management and plant health product candidates. At
Marrone Bio Innovations we are dedicated to pioneering better
biopesticides that support a better tomorrow for users around the
globe. For more information, please visit
www.marronebio.com.
Marrone Bio Innovations Contacts:
Nancy M. Hood, VP Marketing
(530) 302-8290
nhood@marronebio.com
MBI Investor Contact:
James Palczynski, ICR
Telephone: +1 (203) 682-8229
Email: James.Palczynski@icrinc.com
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