Pamela Marrone
Pamela Marrone
Pamela Marrone is a serial entrepreneur in agriculture biotechnology and biological pesticides. She is one of 22 women who founded and led companies to be listed on public stock exchanges She held more than 500 patents. She also serves on a number of company boards and is on several advisory councils.
"I wanted to be an entomologist since I was about 8 years old “I saw all the trees getting ruined by these caterpillars. My father used a chemical to kill them on a prized dogwood outside the kitchen window [but] it killed all the good bugs – lady beetles, lacewings, honeybees and so forth."
"Ive always been driven toward the mission and vision of helping find effective, environmentally friendly pest management products and saving the planet at the same time."
"That’s the whole story of my career, Thats my passion, finding science-based products that work and that offer farmers and other customers a value proposition compared to chemical pesticides."
". “I had to be an entrepreneur because I want to solve problems and have practical applications,"
"A lot of professors from different schools said they didnt want to take women because women would just have children, and that would disrupt the Ph.D. Both at Cornell and at NC State, I had really good professors,“They were very supportive of me."
