David McElroy has been the Vice President of Operations and Business Development for Verdia since its formation in March 2002. In addition, McElroy is an Adjunct Professor with the Department of Plant Breeding at Cornell University.
McElroy formerly served as Vice President of Research and Development for Maxygen's agricultural business. Prior to joining Maxygen, McElroy was Product Development Manager at Dekalb Genetics Corporation, where he managed the development and commercial introduction of transgenic corn products with insect and herbicide resistance.
McElroy was a Fulbright Scholar to Cornell University, where he received his Ph.D. in 1991. He completed an Advanced Management Program at London Business School in 2000 and an Executive Program in Management and Technology at MIT Sloan School of Management in 1999.
When I was interviewing for jobs with some of the big companies, I really wanted to do things like insect resistance and I actually went to a big company and they said to me you don't want to work on insect resistance because even though the product wasn't solved it was perceived as, they even used ...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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