MBI names James Iademarco as President/COO

The US Biopesticide company Marrone Bio Innovations, Inc. (MBI), recently announced that James Iademarco has joined the company as its President and Chief Operating Officer.

Mr. Iademarco will have responsibility for directing operations of the company, including sales, marketing, manufacturing and corporate infrastructure, with a particular focus on driving sustainable revenue growth.

Most recently, Mr. Iademarco founded and ran Strategic Avalanche, a global consulting firm focused on the agriculture, biotechnology, renewable chemicals and material sectors. Strategic Avalanche enabled sustainable growth and value creation for a range of companies and was tasked to assess operations, refine business models, identify partnerships, structure go-to-market initiatives and raise strategic capital.

Prior to founding Avalanche, Mr. Iademarco was Vice President of Integration for Biomedical Materials and Vice President, Biobased Chemicals and Materials for Royal DSM in Europe. Prior to DSM, he was General Manager, Biomaterials, New Business Ventures, for Bayer Crop Science, where he led strategic investments spanning agricultural biotechnology, nutrition and biofuels and led teams to create a new biomaterials platform and to leverage existing agriculture trait technologies.

Before Bayer, he was Director of Business Development for Diversa and he held several positions of increasing responsibility at Monsanto Company and Solutia. He started his career at Monsanto in crop protection sales and marketing.