Federico Tripodi

Mr Tripodi has close to three-decades of involvement in the agri-food sector with his experience spanning general management, research and development, corporate strategy and the commercialization of novel plant biotechnologies targeted for consumers and farmers. Federico is the Founder and CEO of Blacktop Holdings, a boutique venture lab that offers strategic and operating partnership services to rapidly growing Ag Tech, Food and Agribusiness companies, their investors and research institutions. From 2016 to 2018, Federico served as the CEO of Calyxt Inc., a company that develops healthier food ingredients by applying a new breeding technology. Prior to Calyxt, Federico worked at Monsanto Company for nearly two decades where his focus was developing health, sustainability and renewable energy crop products in the United States and Latin America. Federico is based in the United States. He holds other directorships as Chairman at the Agricultural Utilization Research Institute (AURI). He is Member of the people, safety, innovation committee.