Selective Facts About Dr. Surles:

• Strong academic scientific background in entomology, biology, natural history, ecology, chemistry and biological control with extensive post graduate business and marketing/management experience/education
  
  
• Highly diversified technical background that supports broad business management perspective
  
  
• Creative, analytical problem solver
  
  
• Outgoing team player with participative style and proven ability to extract and promote excellence from associates
  
  
• Strategic marketing analyst for innumerable  U.S./Canadian markets who provided economic guidance to support  multimillion-dollar, results-oriented research and development efforts
  
  
• Possesses a strong orientation toward quality customer service and productivity while maintaining an ecological concern for and prudent use of natural and economic resources
  
  
• Worked in nearly every pesticide market in the United States and Canada while supporting related global programs
  
  
• Internationally connected in pesticide/ plant-input  markets and can immediately provide strategic insight into most new market concepts
  
  
• If a project involves agricultural, specialty/agronomic products Dr. Surles will have relevant experience
  
  
• Honored in 2009 as College Outstanding Alumnus by the Virginia Tech College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
  
  
• Extensive industrial history for providing WINNING SOLUTIONS for broad array of pesticide and strategic issues