Pamela (Pamu) G. Marrone PhD Founded Marrone Organic Innovations, Inc. in 2006 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer.
Dr. Marrone founded AgraQuest Inc. in 1995 and has been Consultant since April 18, 2006. Dr. Marrone served as President of Agraquest, Inc. from January 1995 to April 2006 and as its Chief Executive Officer from January 1995 to May 2004. Before AgraQuest, Dr. Marrone was Founding President and business unit Head for Entotech, Inc., from 1990 to 1995 in Davis (CA), a successful Biopesticide subsidiary of Denmark-based Novo Nordisk (sold to Abbott in 1995). At Monsanto, from 1983 to 1990, she led the Insect Biology group, which was involved in pioneering projects in transgenic crops, natural products, and microbial pesticides. She is founder and Chair of the Biopesticide Industry Alliance (BPIA), an alliance of 25 Biopesticide companies. Dr. Marrone served as Chair of board of Directors of AgraQuest Inc. from January 1995 to June 2005. She serves as a Director of Codena Inc. She has been a Director of AgraQuest, Inc. since January 1995. Since 1999, She is on the Board of the Sacramento Entrepreneurship Academy and Sutter Health's Sacramento-Sierra Region, Sacramento's largest private employer and is on the Sutter Davis Hospital Foundation Board since 1994. She is a co- founder and Board member of UC Davis CONNECT and DATA (Davis Area Technology Association). With a worldwide reputation, Dr. Marrone serves on important state and federal advisory committees and is in demand as a speaker. She serves on the Board of he Association of Applied IPM Ecologists, the National Foundation for IPM Education and Earth Renew, Inc. She also is on the University of California President's Board of Science and Innovation, UC Davis Graduate School of Management Dean's Advisory Council, and the UC President's Commission on Agriculture and Natural Resources. Her peers elected her as a Fellow of AAAS (American Assoc. for the Advancement of Science).
In May 2006. She was the Sacramento Chamber's 2001 Businesswoman of the Year and Cornell University's College of Agriculture, Life Sciences 2002 Distinguished Alumni Award Recipient and a 2003 recipient of the UC Davis' College of Agriculture and Natural Resources Alumni Award of Distinction. She was named a northern California finalist for Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year award and won "Best in Show" for Marrone Organic Innovations at the Golden Capital Network's Angel and Venture Capital Investment Summit. She has published many articles and book chapters on agricultural biotechnology and Biopesticide topics and has been featured in the Wall Street Journal (front page, Nov 2005), the LA Times, Fortune, USA Today, Success, Genetic Engineering News, Farm Chemicals and others. She has completed over 20 executive-level business courses, including CORO Foundation's intensive "Women in Leadership" program. She has a B.S. in entomology with Honors and Distinction from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in entomology from North Carolina State University.
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