What We Stand For
It’s time for us to demand more from our plants and less from our planet.
At Verdesian Life Sciences, we enable a more sustainable, profitable future for farmers through nutrient use efficiency. We firmly believe that sustainability and profitability are not mutually exclusive, and our NUE technologies are designed to protect the environment while helping farmers outdo what they’ve always done.
Everything we do at Verdesian has the best, long-term interest of the industry and the grower in mind. Our portfolio of products and technologies enhance nutrient uptake, reduce nutrient losses to the environment and improve yield potential.
We are committed to helping farmers maintain and improve water quality and soil health and are adamant in our belief that we can do this together. Sustainability is a global movement, but big changes start with small actions. One practice, one tool or one new agronomic opportunity can improve nutrient efficiency, increase yield and dial up profits.
We Are The Nutrient Use Efficiency People
Established in 2012, Verdesian Life Sciences offers the industry and growers the biological, nutritional, seed treatment and inoculant technologies that maximize performance on high-value row crops and specialty crops, as well as turf and ornamental plants.
With a diverse product portfolio of over 300 patent properties, our solutions are designed to enhance crop uptake, reduce nutrient losses to the environment, and improve yields for all growers. We are committed to the research and development of nutrient use efficiency technologies that make farming more efficient, more sustainable, and more profitable.
Our technologies are supported by exclusive licenses and research partnerships with leading global research institutions and universities, including Los Alamos National Laboratory, University of California Riverside, University of Chicago, and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
As a 4R Nutrient Stewardship Partner, we are committed to researching and developing environmentally sustainable products.
Investing in both science and people, we develop and retain the best and brightest talent in the industry to bring our technologies to the market.
Headquartered in Cary, North Carolina, we have production and manufacturing facilities strategically located in Pasco, Washington; Kentland, Indiana; Cape Girardeau, Missouri; and North Lima, Ohio. In addition, we have toll production sites in the UK and Spain.
Meet The Team
Egemen Bengu
Region Lead Europe, Middle East & Africa
Having joined Verdesian in March 2022 and based in Izmir ,Turkey; Egemen Bengu is a Business Development Manager for Europe and Africa, providing sales and development strategy to partners in Turkey and surrounding geography. The key focus is to identify new markets, new partnerships, new ways to reach existing markets, and new product offerings to better meet the needs of existing markets through solid partnerships.
Egemen has 20 years of professional experience within the agriculture sector. Before joining Verdesian he worked for different global companies from chemicals and biostimulants like DuPont and UPL. Before Verdesian, he was Biostimulant Marketing and Ag-Tech Development Manager[...] for South Europe countries with UPL. He has experience in sales, marketing, new product development, and launching using 6 sigma skills and methodology. He has a bachelor’s degree in agriculture in Crop Protection.
Martin Brown
Business Support Manager, Europe & Africa
Having joined Verdesian in November 2015 and based in the UK, Martin was Managing Director for Verdesian Europe and Africa until the end of May 2021, providing sales, development and regulatory strategy to distributing partners across these markets. A key focus for the Europe team is seeking potential distribution partners and building new channels to market to exploit Verdesian technologies and product portfolio.
Martin has over 40 years’ experience in the agricultural sector having pre-Verdesian been CEO and board member of a highly innovate Venture Capital funded R&D biotech company Exosect Ltd based in the UK, focusing on out-licensing of electrostatic technology for delivery of pestici[...]des and biologicals, operating on a Global basis. Previously, Martin spent 2 years operating out of Cyprus as business director for a major agricultural distribution company creating and establishing new distribution outlets in Balkans and Eastern Europe. In addition, he worked for over 20 years in senior business roles with ICI, Zeneca Agrochemicals and Syngenta across Europe, Middle East, Africa and Indian subcontinent and during that time was also chairman of Zeneca Turkey and for 4 years was based in Kenya developing ICI's agricultural business across East and Southern Africa.
Martin, up until end of May 2021 was a director on the Board of the European Biostimulant Industry Council (EBIC).
Trevor Smith
Commercial Manager UK
Having joined one of the legacy companies in 2010 which then became part of the Verdesian company in 2015, Trevor has worked across the whole of Europe for Verdesian, since 2017 he has concentrated on the UK providing sales, account management and customer support.
Trevor has nearly forty years of experience within the agricultural sector, he commenced his career working with Ciba-Geigy in the technical, sales and marketing arenas. He has worked for several multi-nationals and national companies in sales and providing technical support for agrochemicals, adjuvants, nutrition, biostimulants and biologicals. He is at his happiest meeting agronomists, growers and the public - talking about the[...] Weather and Agriculture.
Maria Estárlich
Development Specialist
Since joining Verdesian in September 2024 and based in Valencia, Spain, my position is Development Specialist for Europe, Middle East and Africa.
As a Development Specialist at Verdesian, I am responsible for ensuring that our products are compliant with the legislation, managing trials and collaborating with internal and external teams. My work includes generating and communicating research data, as well as developing strategies for regulatory and new product launches. I am committed to building strong relationships with consultants and operators, ensuring quality and compliance at every stage of the process. I provide technical agronomic support as well as support on our technologies to e[...]nsure our clients' success through more efficient and sustainable agriculture.
I have over ten years of experience in the agricultural sector where I have worked on projects related to genetics and plant breeding, bio stimulation and plant nutrition. I had the opportunity to collaborate with companies such as Bayer Crop Sciences or BASF in the development of new horticultural varieties. Also, in plant bio stimulation companies always serve as a bridge between research and commercial teams. I have worked a lot with growers supporting them in technical advice in all kinds of crops around the world.
I studied agricultural engineering and did an interuniversity master’s in plant breeding and genetics at the Polytechnic University of Valencia.