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

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

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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

President, Professor
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.

Crops for Nutrition and Health Research Director
Alliance for Bioversity International and CIAT
Cali, Colombia

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