Vatren Jurin

Mr. Jurin is a strategic, agile, and results-driven agricultural innovation leader.
With a mission to feed the world, he has identified and scaled groundbreaking technology in plant nutrition, adjuvant technology, biostimulants, seed treatment and sustainable crop protectants, and customized quality improvement formulations for both conventional and organic crops, which has led to almost $1B in revenue growth across organizations.
He has comprehensive commercial knowledge of product evaluation, mergers and acquisitions, international regulatory compliance, agronomy, horticulture, fertigation, aquatics, and ornamentals.
Mr. Jurin joined Compass Minerals in 2016 as the Senior Product Manager to further strengthen the firm’s operational, strategic, and tactical execution over the development of products in the specialty plant nutrition space.
In this capacity, he ran the North American Innovation lab where he created disruptive specialty fertilizer products for seed, irrigation, and foliar applications and developed salt products used in ice management, water treatment, and animal/human feed, as well as being tapped to identify disruptive technologies in the Potassium and salt space.
His leadership, technical, and regulatory expertise throughout markets in North America, South America, Europe, China, South East Asia, Australia, and Africa served as the foundation for specialty plant nutrition market strategy.