AgBiTech Brasil makes changes to the company's board of directors

Present among the largest global manufacturers of natural insecticides, with a biological matrix, for controlling caterpillars in agriculture, AgBiTech promoted executive Murilo Moreira, until recently marketing director, to the position of business director. The marketing department is now occupied by professional Pedro Marcellino, who had been working as a strategic marketing consultant for large agribusiness companies and startups.

Murilo Moreira has over fifteen years of experience in marketing and technical development positions. Prior to AgBiTech, he served as a consultant and was also a foreign associate scientist at the University of Delaware (USA). With a master's degree in crop protection from Esalq/USP, Moreira has been on the board of AgBiTech Brasil for a year and a half.

Pedro Marcellino has a degree in production engineering. The executive has more than ten years of experience in the areas of marketing and sales, having held strategic leadership positions in some of the largest agricultural companies operating in Brazil, especially in the pesticide and seed markets.

Growth 

Controlled by the North American investment fund Paine Schwartz Partners, AgBiTech was born in Australia in 2000 and is now headquartered in Dallas (Texas), in the USA. The company has the largest manufacturing unit in the world to produce baculovirus, the biological active ingredients of a wide line of bioinsecticides aimed at managing caterpillars in agriculture.

In just five years of activities in Brazil, AgBiTech has become the leading company in the bioinsecticides market for cotton, corn and soybean crops. In cotton, the company accounts for 78% of sales, while in soybeans and corn its share is 37% and 31%, respectively. The data is from the Spark Intelligence Strategic consultancy, relating to the 2020-21 harvest.