Edward T. Shonsey who joined the Board in December 2006, serves as the CEO of Diversa Corporation, a publicly traded biotechnology company where he previously served as CFO implementing their Sarbanes-Oxley compliance program. Previously, Mr. Shonsey was President and CEO of Syngenta Seeds/Northrup King (formerly Sandoz Seeds and Novartis Seeds). In prior roles, he held senior executive roles with Global Trading Resources; was Senior Vice President, CFO, Senior Vice President, International Operations, Administration and Human Resources and Business Development for Pioneer Hi-Bred International (now subsidiary of DuPont Corporation); and began his career with Proctor & Gamble as an Operations Manager. Mr. Shonsey holds a BSEE from Marquette University, an MBA from Creighton University, and conducted post graduate work in Finance at Stanford and Biotechnology at The University of Washington. |