Rick Melnick

AgraQuest, Inc. develops pesticides and provides best management services. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Research Triangle Park, NC.

Imerys USA, Inc. manufactures and supplies building materials and industrial minerals. The company is headquartered in Roswell, GA.

Part of RTX Corp., BFGoodrich Aerospace is a company that makes a broad range of aerospace systems and component parts and provides maintenance. The company is based in Richfield, OH.

Cornell University is an educational institution that offers undergraduate and post graduate programs. It was founded in 1865 and is based in Ithaca, NY.

Syngenta Corp. manufactures agricultural chemicals and distributes field, garden, and flower seeds. It produces herbicides, fungicides, insecticides, and crop protection products for pest control and vegetation management. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Wilmington, DE.

Sutter Health engages in the provision of healthcare services. It offers allergy care, asthma care, gastroenterology, imaging, liver care, occupational health, pediatric, bioethics, dermatology, emergency, back and spine, heart and vascular, cancer, and fertility services. The company was founded in January 1996 and is headquartered in Sacramento, CA.

National Academy of Sciences operates as a private, nongovernmental institution that advises on issues related to science and technology. It provides independent, objective analysis and advice and conducts other activities to solve complex problems and inform public policy decisions. The firm also encourages education and research, recognize outstanding contributions to knowledge, and increase public understanding in matters of science. The company was founded on March 3, 1863 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

The Association for Women in Science is an organization that supports and recognizes women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The non-profit company is based in Washington. The organization provides a central repository for articles, blogs, press releases, webinars, videos, and newsletters, as well as curated content for women in STEM. The organization also educates about Title IX protections and how to report violations. The AWIS Wall of WISdom provides inspiration and advice from other women in science and STEM. Meredith R. Gibson has been the CEO of the American company since 2022.

Bayer CropScience LP provides crop protection products. The company was founded on December 3, 1999 and is headquartered in Research Triangle Park, NC.

The Organic Farming Research Foundation (OFRF) is a non-profit organization founded in 1990 with the goal of advancing organic farming. OFRF is based in Santa Cruz, CA. The non-profit company works towards fostering the improvement and widespread adoption of organic farming systems through research, education, and federal policies. OFRF presents the 2022 National Organic Research Agenda (NORA), a report informed by surveys and focus groups conducted in 2020 with over 1,100 certified organic and 71 transitioning-organic farmers and ranchers across the United States. The report provides input and perspectives on their current organic production systems.

StemExpress LLC supplies human specimens to biomedical researchers. It offers bone marrow, peripheral blood, umbilical cord blood, fetal liver ad maternal blood. The firm's services include Immunophenotyping, Phenotyping for cell culture and tissue transplant verification, DNA quantitation and viability and Intracellular signaling and protein and enzyme activity. The company was founded by Catherine Dyer in 2010 and is headquartered in Folsom, CA.

Pheronym, Inc. engages in testing of biological pest controls. The company was founded by Fatma Kaplan and Karl Cameron Schiller in March 2017 and is headquartered in Davis, CA.

Elicit Plant SAS is a French agri-biotech company that aims to become a leader in the ecological transition for agriculture and address the challenges posed by climate change on large-scale crops. The company is based in Moulins-sur-Tardoire, France. The company's proprietary technology, based on the exogenous application of phytosterols, enhances plant stress resistance by eliciting their natural defenses. Extensive field trials across three continents have proven that the biosolutions from the eliterra® platform are the only ones providing farmers with a regular and sufficient return on investment for use in large-scale crops, yielding an average increase in productivity of 12%%. The company was founded in 2017 by Jean-François Dechant, who has been the CEO since 2017.