To achieve this expanded worldwide business, a new SynTech Global Organization has been put in place with a number of elements:

• Global Account Managers, for Seeds/Traits, GLP, Ecotoxicology/Public Health, Herbicides/PGRs, Fungicides, Insecticides and Nematicides;
• Directors of Global Operations and Sales & Marketing, who will take on the duties previously held by the Regional Directors;
• Directors of Finance, HR, Communications and Legal Counsel.

The Regional Organization will be strengthened to include: Regional Regulatory Managers, Accountants and, where needed, Regional Program Coordinators and Project Leaders.

The following appointments have already been made:

Directors: Sales and Marketing (Dr. Khosro Khodayari) and Communications (Dr. Colin Ruscoe)

Global Account Managers: Daniel Mourad – GLP; Eric Ythier – Ecotoxicology/Public Health; Dr. Luke Farno – Seeds/Traits; Dr. David Marsden – Entomology; Dr. Chuck Doty Weeds/PGRs; Dr. Lee Simmons – Nematology.

Regional Regulatory Managers: Ms. Isabelle Rety – EU; Ms. Magdalena Zingoni – Americas; Hans Dieter Osten – Asia.

Regional Program Coordinators (EU): Michael South – GEP and Dr. Isabelle Pronier – GLP.

“Further appointments, including the positions of Directors of Global Operations, Finance and HR, and Plant Pathology Account Manager will be made by the end of March 2012,” says Dr. Khodayari. “The new organization will then be fully operational to drive an expanded worldwide business in 2012”.

Further information on the SynTech organization and contact details can be found at www.syntechresearch.com/who-we-are/management-structure and at www.syntechresearch.com/contact-us

Dr. Farno obtained his Ph.D. from Oklahoma State University (OSU) in Plant Breeding and went on to  complete a Postdoctorate at Mississippi State University. He has worked at Garst Seeds and Beck’s Hybrid as a plant breeder for Corn and Soybean at OSU. He has been responsible for GMO field trials compliance in North and South America for the past 5 years.  

SynTech Research has established a new satellite facility in Maricopa, Arizona. The site will be used for seed/traits, GLP, and bioefficacy field testing. The location gives SynTech GLP capability in US region 9 and is now able to conduct field testing in regions 1, 2, 5, 9 and 10. The site further strengthens the company’s seeds/traits testing capability, as part of a worldwide expansion into this sector.

Directors and Managers from SynTech Research Europe and Asia Pacific met a range of clients at the Company’s stand at CropWorld 2011– at the Excel Centre, London 31 October  to 2 November.

In attendance were Paul French, Director Asia-Pacific, Colin Ruscoe, Director Europe and Africa, Michael South, GEP Programme Manager Europe and Africa, Isabelle Pronier – GLP Programme Manager Europe, Paolo Viglione – Project Manager, SynTech Europe, and Roberto Dagasso – Regulatory Consultant , SynTech Italy. SynTech used the opportunity for meetings with companies to discuss opportunities and results from its worldwide GLP, ecotoxicology, bioefficacy, public health and regulatory services and facilities.

In  a separate initiative, Bancaja-UPV has awarded one of its valuable annual prizes (for details click here) to Victor Cortés of SynTech Research Spain,  for his laboratory project on the effect of a range of insecticides on beneficial arthropods.