Our Team
Dr Carol Ibe
Founder & President
Dr Chloé Orland
Non-Executive Director
Lyn Kouadio
Social Scientist & Analyst
Catherine Danmaigona
Plant Breeder & Course Facilitator
Ayomide Olukorede
Coordinator, JR Biotek Mentoring Program
Dr Opeoluwa Oyewole
Coordinator, JR Biotek Mentoring Program
Velma Okaron
Project Coordinator, Uganda
Benjamin Narh-Madey
Project Coordinator, Ghana
Advisory Board
Dr Seung Yon (Sue) Rhee
Principal Investigator & Senior Staff Member, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, USA
Prof Dr Mizeck Chagunda
Head of the Department of Animal Breeding and Husbandry and Managing Director of the Institute of Agricultural Sciences in the Tropics (Hans-Ruthenberg-Institute), University of Hohenheim, Germany
Prof Marian D. Quain
Chief Research Scientist at CSIR-Crops Research Institute and Associate Professor, CSIR College of Science & Tech, Ghana
Dr Paul Adams
Director of Applied Genomics Centre, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Canada
Dr Nicola Patron
Principal Investigator, Plant Molecular and Synthetic Biology, Earlham Institute, UK
Prof John Carr
Head of Virology and Molecular Plant Pathology Group, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK
Dr Sibongile Mafu
Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
Dr Jales Fonseca
Plant Breeder, Genetics & Plant Breeding, Texas A&M University, USA
Dr Cy Tamanaha
R&D Engineer, Industrial Designer, Agricultural Engineer and Board of Director at JR Biotek Foundation, USA
Mainda Kiwelu
Senior Product & Marketing Manager, Enterprise Mentor at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School, UK
Chigozie Ogwuegbu-Stephens
Juris Doctor, Senior Risk Professional & Board of Director at JR Biotek Foundation, USA
Jeff Zucker
C-Suite Leader, Executive-in-Residence, Strategic Advisor, USA