Board of Directors
BTI maintains a Board of Directors of no less than 12 and no more than 25, with four to five members having been nominated by the President of Cornell from within the university family, as mandated by the BTI Bylaws and the affiliation agreement with Cornell University.
Roberto Cañizares, M.B.A.
Retired – President, MSA International
MSA Safety Inc.
Gibsonia, PA
Paul Chomet, Ph.D.
Chomet Consulting LLC
Groton, CT
Peter Cornelius, Ph.D.
Managing Director
AlpInvest Partners/The Carlyle Group
New York, NY
Benjamin Houlton, Ph.D.
Ronald P. Lynch Dean, Office of the Dean
Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Professor, Department of Global Development
Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Ithaca, NY
Stacy Kimmel, Ph.D
FoodVisors LLC
Founder & CEO
Bethlehem, PA
Bridget Krieger
Senior Principal
Lewis-Burke Associates LLC
Washington DC
Eric Lyons
Associate Professor – The School of Plant Sciences, iPlant Collaborative
NSF Rotating Program Director
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ
Katherine McComas, Ph.D.
Vice Provost for Engagement and Land-Grant Affairs, Office of the Provost
Professor, Department of Communication
Cornell University
Mark W. Nelson, Ph.D.
S.C. Johnson Family Professor of Management
Professor of Accounting
Samuel Curtis Johnson School of Management
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
Melinda R. Oakes
Executive Director
Triad Foundation, Inc.
Ithaca, NY
Silvia Restrepo
Boyce Thompson Institute
Ithaca, NY
Sally Rockey, Ph.D
Chief Executive Officer
Rockey Consulting
Washington, DC
Jocelyn Rose, Ph.D.
Director, School of Integrative Plant Science
Barbara McClintock Professor, Plant Biology
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Oliver W. Schulze, M.B.A.
Partner
Curo Pet Care
San Francisco, CA
Margaret Smith, Ph.D.
Associate Dean and Director, Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
Professor, Plant Breeding and Genetics
Professor, Department of Global Development
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Anne Sylvester, Ph.D.
Director of Research
Marine Biological Laboratory
The University of Chicago
Woods Hole, MA
Joe Tohme, Ph.D.
Alliance for Bioversity International and CIAT
Cali, Colombia