Pamela Marrone

"I've always been driven toward the mission and vision of helping find effective, environmentally friendly pest management products and saving the planet at the same time."

"I wanted to be an entomologist since I was about 8 years old “I saw all the trees getting ruined by these caterpillars. My father used a chemical to kill them on a prized dogwood outside the kitchen window [but] it killed all the good bugs – lady beetles, lacewings, honeybees and so forth."

"That’s the whole story of my career, That's my passion, finding science-based products that work and that offer farmers and other customers a value proposition compared to chemical pesticides."

"A lot of professors from different schools said they didn't want to take women because women would just have children, and that would disrupt the Ph.D. Both at Cornell and at NC State, I had really good professors,“They were very supportive of me."

". “I had to be an entrepreneur because I want to solve problems and have practical applications,"