Dr. Jasper Barnes has been appointed Field and Business Development Manager for SynTech North America (USA/Canada/Mexico). Dr. Barnes comes from Syngenta and will join SynTech on 1 March 2018.
Jasper is an agronomist, and started his career as a field researcher in 1990 at the ICI Northern Regional Technical Center in Champaign, Illinois later moving on to roles in project management, technical marketing. He managed the company’s Eastern Regional Technical Center in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, before taking an international assignment in Basel, Switzerland as Global Head of the R&D Non-Selective Herbicide Team. He later established a team of global R&D project managers and implemented the global process for managing Seeds and the Crop Protection product development portfolio worldwide.
Dr. Barnes can be reached at jbarnes@syntech.ntd.co.uk from 1 March 2018.