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