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Norfolk Plant Sciences & Norfolk Healthy Produce

Norfolk Plant Sciences:

A Source of Innovation

 

NPS is a spin-out from the John Innes Centre and The Sainsbury Laboratory, which together form one of the world's leading plant science research institutes. 

 

The company was established by Profs Cathie Martin and Jonathan Jones to enable their ground-breaking plant research to make a positive impact in people’s lives.

Norfolk Healthy Produce:

Bringing Innovation to Market

 

Norfolk Healthy Produce is a subsidiary of Norfolk Plant Sciences.  We develop and market products that meet consumer and partner needs, using the cutting-edge and safe innovations developed by NPS.

 

Backed by an experienced group of investors and advisors, led by Stephen Thomson and Eric Ward, NHP is developing a portfolio of health-benefitting traits into tasty and appealing new fruits & vegetables.  Norfolk's first product line is the dark purple antioxidant tomato, which is being developed into several consumer appealing products.

CEO Nathan Pumplin, an entrepreneur with biotechnology commercialization and research backgrounds, leads Norfolk Healthy Produce.  CTO Jessica Louie contributes her ability to converge technology and strategy to effect transformational change.

​Norfolk Healthy Produce:

Bringing Products to Market

We develop and market products that meet consumer and partner needs, using the cutting-edge and safe innovations developed by NPS. We are building an organization with core competencies in product innovation. CEO Nathan Pumplin, an entrepreneur with biotechnology commercialization and research background, leads Norfolk Healthy Produce. CTO Jessica Louie contributes her ability to converge technology and strategy to effect transformational change.

The Executive Team 

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Dr. Nathan Pumplin

CEO
Leadership in innovation and biotech

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Jessica Louie

CTO

Change agent in biotech and synthetic biology

Our Team

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Operations

Lucas Haskins

Ian Baker

Oscar Ayala

Bobby Michel

Jared Reynbery

Seedlings
Interns

Nikolina Bilkic

Remmi Shaw

More coming soon

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Advisors

Wayne Merkelson

David Saravitz

Mike Crowley

Lisa Zannoni

Dave Lawrence

Harry Klee

The Founding Team 

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Prof. Cathie Martin

Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) Fellow of the Royal Society Rank Prize for Nutrition in 2021

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Prof. Jonathan Jones

Fellow of the Royal
Society US National Academy of Sciences

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Stephen Thomson

Experienced board member, non-executive director and investor

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Dr. Eric Ward

Co-CEO AgBiome raised >$250M, former President of Syngenta & Novartis Ag Biotech

Norfolk Healthy Produce is located in Davis, CA and Boston, MA, USA

Norfolk Plant Sciences is located in Norwich, UK

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