Herman van Mellaert

CropDesign NV develops traits for cereal crops. It delivers agronomic traits for the global commercial seed markets. The firm focuses on enhancing grain yield in crops such as corn and rice, and increasing biomass of energy crops. Its platform, TraitMill, lows evaluating the effect of genes on the performance of plants under different growing conditions, including drought and low nutrient stress. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Zwijnaarde, Blgium.

Part of Bayer AG, Bayer Bioscience NV is a Belgian company that manufactures and markets herbicides and agricultural chemical products. The company is based in Ghent, Belgium. The company was founded by Gerard van Acker.

Fugeia NV developed ingredients, nutrition products and technologies. It has developed a range of cutting edge proprietary ingredients and nutrition technologies. The firm's products included AXOS Ingredient, Prebiotic Bread Technology and AXOS-Enriched Beer Technology. The company was founded in February 2008 by Willem Broekaert and Jan Delcour and was headquartered in Leuven, Belgium.

BioActor BV develops and markets health ingredients for dietary supplements and functional foods. Its products include BONOLIVE, CORDIART and NAXUS. The company was founded by Hans Van Der Saag in 2005 and is headquartered in Maastricht, the Netherlands.

Probiox SA engages in the development and commercialization of solutions based on oxidative stress markers. The firm owns intellectual property related to the analysis and interpretation of oxidative stress parameters. It also provides turnkey solutions to companies for the evaluation of the antioxidant/anti-inflammatory properties of their products. The company's services include intellectual deliveries (literature reviews and scientific records for starting projects, registrations, claims, marketing support and scientific survey), clinical studies (assessment of oxidative stress in the context of existing studies or conducting turnkey studies) and In Vitro studies. Probiox was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Liege, Belgium.