Kamal El Mernissi joined Biotalys in October 2024 as Chief Business Development Officer. He leads the company’s efforts to secure partnerships with major agricultural players that can benefit from the AGROBODY Foundry™ technology platform to develop biocontrols with new modes of action.
His career spans more than 15 years in agriculture and a broad variety of leadership positions in marketing and sales. Most recently he served as the Vice President, Sales and Marketing North America at biocontrol solutions leader Marrone Bio Innovations (currently Pro Farm Group). Prior to his role at Marrone, Mr. El Mernissi held various commercial leadership roles at Syngenta, where he was Portfolio Manager North America and LATAM, Commercial Unit head and Director of Sales for Morocco, and Asset Manager EMEA responsible for the launch a major active ingredient. Prior to that, he took up various roles in sales and marketing in leading companies such as DELL and SIKA.
Kamal El Mernissi obtained his Engineering Diploma in Agriculture from the Hassan II Agronomic and Veterinary Institute (Morocco) and his MBA at the University of California, Berkeley (United States).