Board of Directors
Michael Collinson
Chairman
Michael served as the President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of BVT from 2012 to August 2016 and continues as the Chairman of the Board. He was responsible for encouraging BVT’s growth from an R&D initiative to a commercial opportunity. He has over five years of experience working with the Advisory Board and agricultural experts to realize grower demand and BVT potential. Michael has more than 35 years of international manufacturing, marketing and sales management experience in North America, Asia and Europe. He was previously an executive at Teknion in business development during an intense period of revenue growth from $40 million to $1 billion, and ultimately through to their becoming a public company. Michael is the previous owner-operator of a 320 person manufacturing company that sold internationally.
Ashish Malik
Director
Ashish Malik is Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of BVT. He was previously the VP of Global Marketing for Biologics at Bayer CropScience. He was responsible for managing the portfolio of biological assets for the company and advancing the strategy to develop integrated crop solutions that include biological products together with traditional chemical products, seeds, traits, seed treatments and services. Ashish joined Bayer CropScience through the company’s acquisition of AgraQuest in 2012. At AgraQuest, he was Senior Vice President of Global Marketing and a member of the company’s Executive Team. Other previous roles have included Head of Commercial Operations for the Home Care Division at Syngenta, Business Unit Director at Imerys and Marketing Manager at BFGoodrich. Ashish serves on the Board of the Biopesticides Industry Alliance, holds an MBA with concentrations in Finance and Marketing from Carnegie Mellon University – Tepper School of Business and a bachelor’s degree in Engineering from Swarthmore College.
Gustavo C. Gonzalez
Director
With a robust background rooted in international agribusiness, Gustavo brings to BVT an extensive network of industry connections cultivated over years of service in notable global regions, including Argentina, Brazil, the USA, and Switzerland. His professional journey is marked by his tenure in critical roles within the seed and crop protection sectors, most recently serving as Vice President of Commercial Business Development at AgBiome. His prior experiences at BASF, Bayer Crop Science, and Syngenta have endowed him with valuable insights and a proven track record in new business development, commercial strategy, and market expansion for the agricultural supply chain. He holds a Bachelor of International Business Administration from Boise State University, along with executive program credentials from globally recognized institutions such as INSEAD, Northwestern, Purdue and ESADE universities.
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