JERRY D. CAULDER, Ph.D.

Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer
Mycogen Corporation

As Chairman and CEO, Jerry Caulder has overall responsibility for Mycogen's management and strategic direction.

Mycogen is a diversified agricultural biotechnology company that develops and markets environmentally compatible biopesticides and improved crop varieties to control pests and increase food and fiber production.

Caulder serves on the board of directors and chairs the Food and Agriculture Section of the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO), and is past chairman of the Industrial Biotechnology Association (IBA). He has served on and chaired several committees of the U.S. Office of Technology Assessment, given expert testimony before both houses of Congress, advised a number of foreign governments on agriculture and biotechnology, and has been a consultant or speaker to numerous organizations, including The Brookings Institute, The Keystone Group and the World Economic Forum. He has been profiled in Forbes and USA Today, and frequently is quoted in national print and broadcast media.

Caulder serves on the board of directors of Cilcorp Inc., an energy company, and is a member of the Advisory Council on Small Business and Agriculture of the Federal Reserve Board of San Francisco.

A native of Missouri, Caulder grew up on a cotton farm, and continues to own and operate a family farm there. He earned B.A. and B.S. degrees in botany and zoology from Southeast Missouri State University, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in agronomy and plant physiology from the University of Missouri. He now lives in San Diego, where Mycogen is headquartered.

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