Richard W. Hamilton
Committee member
Agri and Aquaculture
Yield10 Bioscience, Inc
Canada
Biography
Richard W. Hamilton, Ph.D. became a Director of the company in March 2017. From 2002 to 2016, Dr. Hamilton served as Chief Executive Officer and as a member of the board of directors at Ceres, Inc., an agricultural biotechnology company that developed and marketed seeds and traits to produce crops for animal feed, sugar and other markets. From 1998 to 2002, he served as Chief Financial Officer of Ceres. In 2016, Ceres was acquired by Land O'Lakes. In addition to his leadership role at Ceres, Dr. Hamilton has sat on the Keck Graduate Institute Advisory Council and he was a founding member of the Council for Sustainable Biomass Production
Research Interest
Agriculture, food science, food technology, crop science
