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October 12, 2006
Dr. Alan Baylis, President and CEO, Nuvistix Innovation, 10-13-06
Dr. Alan Baylis is President and CEO of Nuvistix Innovation, with a background in agriculture, specifically farming, crop science research, and agribusiness. Dr. Baylis earned his bachelor's and Ph.D. degrees in crop physiology from the University of Leeds and an M.B.A. from Henley Management College. He managed and worked on a farm for three years before joining the fertilizer division of Imperial Chemical Industries at Jealott's Hill International Research Centre in 1982.
After developing technical services based on a model of winter wheat growth and development, Dr. Baylis moved to the Agrochemicals Division to lead research on plant growth regulators. His major goals were improving yield and quality of rice, maize, and soybeans. In 1992 Dr. Baylis began managing Zeneca's R&D on nonselective herbicides, covering not only field crops, but temperate and tropical fruit, and noncrop weed control. Biotechnology came to play an important role with developments in genetically modified crops resistant to glyphosate herbicide, the world's leading agrochemical.
After working in technical marketing for Syngenta, Dr. Baylis established Nuvistix Innovation in 2004. He has been working closely with the Society of Chemical Industry to develop programs to promote interest in crop plants as sources of fuels, feedstocks, platform chemicals, and bioactive molecules.
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