Durham, North Carolina, USA
December 4, 2019
Eric Hammons joins Vestaron as Southeast Manager to manage sales efforts and distribution relationships throughout Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas. Eric brings more than 20 years of experience in crop protection, crop nutrients, vegetable seed and livestock production.
“Eric fills a key role for our product sales in an important fruit and vegetable region for our company’s Spear® bioinsecticides,” said Ben Cicora, SVP Sales and Marketing, Vestaron. “He is a proven performer in growing sales and launching new products and we look forward to his immediate contributions.”
In addition to his agricultural experience, Eric served in the U.S. Navy as a Sonar Technician/Search and Rescue Swimmer during the Desert Shield and Desert Storm campaigns.
Eric earned a Masters of Science degree in Innovation Management from the University of Tampa, and a Bachelors of Science degree in Agriculture from the University of Georgia.
About Vestaron
Vestaron is a company dedicated to improving the safety, efficacy and sustainability of crop protection through migration from synthetic pesticides to peptide-based biopesticides. Vestaron is initially focused on a class of peptides that kill insect pests efficiently, but are safe for humans, beneficial insects and the environment. As part of this, the company has developed a proprietary platform for peptide optimization, fermentation-based peptide production and in planta expression that will allow it to develop a wide variety of biologic crop protection and trait solutions. Vestaron is the winner of the inaugural 2015 Bernard Blum Award for novel biocontrol solutions.
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