Michael served as the President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of BVT from 2012 to August 2016 and continues as the Chairman of the Board. He was responsible for encouraging BVT’s growth from an R&D initiative to a commercial opportunity. He has over five years of experience working with the Advisory Board and agricultural experts to realize grower demand and BVT potential. Michael has more than 35 years of international manufacturing, marketing and sales management experience in North America, Asia and Europe. He was previously an executive at Teknion in business development during an intense period of revenue growth from $40 million to $1 billion, and ultimately through to their becoming a public company. Michael is the previous owner-operator of a 320 person manufacturing company that sold internationally.