Durham, North Carolina, USA
January 15, 2020
Bringing experience from some of the top names in California crop protection, Noel Cornejo has been hired as a Central Valley sales representative by Vestaron Corporation to support its peptide-based bioinsecticides.
Cornejo was Territory Sales Manager for Marrone Bio Innovations and prior to that was a pest control advisor for both Wilbur-Ellis Co. and Helena Chemical Co.
“Vestaron is excited about putting Noel’s experience in biological solutions to the significant fruit and vegetable markets in the Central Valley,” said Ben Cicora, SVP sales and marketing. “His biological background fits perfectly with Vestaron’s Spear® bioinsecticide products.”
Cornejo has been able to utilize his experience as an agronomist to help his customers build strong programs tailored to each individuals’ needs.
About Vestaron Corporation
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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