Leadership

Farouk Chaouni

Executive Chairman

• Chairman: Agrifos Group
• Board Member: Zalar Holding, Zalar Farms and PhytoProd
• Commercials Director, OCP
• HEC Paris (MBA)

Timothy Cotton

Chief Executive Officer

• Vice Chairman, Agrifos Group
• Board Member: Zalar Holding, Zalar Farms, Virterras and Intact Solutions
• Member of PAPSAC at Harvard
• COO and CFO, Agrifos Fertilizer
• Yale University (BA)

Andrew Lewis

President

• Vice Admiral (retired) US Navy
Commander, U.S. 2nd Fleet and NATO Joint Force Command Norfolk
• Deputy Chief of Naval Operations
• Commander, Carrier Strike Group 12, Task Force 50 and Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center
• US Naval Academy and Univ Alabama

Evgeny Fedoseev

Chief Operating Officer

• COO, Fertilizer Division EuroChem
• CEO, NovAzot EuroChem
• Board Member, Migao JV
• Kingston University, London (EMBA)
• Polytechnic University, Russia (PhD in Chem Eng)

Jim Samuelson

Chief Technology Officer

• Director of Engineering, Simplot
• Process Engineer, IMCF
• Shift Supervisor, Cargill
• Military Service, US Army
* USF (B.S. Chem Eng)

Mark Vignovic

Chief Sustainability Officer

• VP of Operations, Jamegy
• Mgr of Environment, Safety & Security, ISG Weirton
• Director of Environmental Control, Weirton Steel
• Pennsylvania State Univ (BS, Env. Eng)

Scott Ritchey

Chief Financial Officer

• Principal, MCMM Services LLC
• CPA
• Clean-tech and renewable energy sector
• Early stage and high-growth companies
• UCF College of Business

Lera Grandio

Director of Business Development

• VP, Agrifos
• CFO & Board Secretary, Baobab Mining
• VP, Alantra InvestmentBank
• R&D Process Dev Eng, P&G
• USC, Spain (Chem Eng), IE (EMBA)

Charlie Ramos

Senior Staff Engineer

• Director of Engineering, AgCert International
• Director of Operations, Proterro Inc.
• Managing Director, BioGreen Eng
• USF (BS Chem)

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Farouk Chaouni
Executive Chairman

Ronald Cambre
Former CEO of Newmont Mining Corporation

Samuel Cole
Principal at Stonecutter Ventures

Pedro Ribeiro Santos
Partner at Armilar Venture Partners

Robert Kunzweiler
Principal at Stonecutter

Timothy Cotton
Chief Executive Officer

Tip Fowler
VP of Business Development

Mitchel Laskey
Managing Partner at DeepWork Capital

Scott Zucker
Principal at Stonecutter