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Frank Flider
Vice President, Business Development, Nutrition
Mr. Flider has more than 30 years of marketing, operations, and research experience in biotechnology, food ingredients, specialty chemicals, industrial oils and edible oils.
Prior to joining Arcadia Biosciences, Mr. Flider was a partner in the Rockridge Group, a management consulting firm focused on the agricultural biotechnology and oilseeds industries. While with Rockridge, he focused on the development of marketing and commercialization strategies for specialty chemicals and products from biotechnology and oilseeds processing. He also assisted clients in planning and successfully negotiating a number of acquisitions, mergers, joint ventures and strategic alliances.
Before joining the Rockridge Group, Mr. Flider spent nearly 10 years with Calgene Chemical, a wholly owned subsidiary of Calgene, Inc., and a manufacturer of surfactants, oleochemicals and biodegradable lubricants. Under his leadership, Calgene became one of the world's leading marketers of industrial or high erucic acid rapeseed oil and canola oil for non-food uses. As part of the Calgene Oils Management Team, he had responsibility for the establishment of the strategic direction for the company's genetically modified oils, which included laurate canola, low saturate canola, high erucic rapeseed, medium chain canola and long chain wax esters from canola. He developed and implemented an aggressive growth strategy that led to several acquisitions.
Prior to joining Calgene, Mr. Flider served as executive director for the Jojoba Marketing Cooperative, where he was responsible for sales, marketing, operations, and administration. He was also a product manager and general manager for Riceland Foods' Soy Specialties Division, and a research chemist for A.E. Staley and Central Soya.
Mr. Flider holds a B.S. in Chemistry (with honors) from Elmhurst College and a certificate of business administration from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is active in the American Oils Chemists' Society and is a senior associate editor for the Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Society (JAOCS). He is also a member of the Institute of Food Technologists and the Association for the Advancement of Industrial Crops. He is the author of numerous technical papers and commercial articles and holds two U.S. patents.
Reducing Nitrogen
Usage
Arcadia Biosciences has conducted field trials in five growing seasons. In each field trial, Nitrogen Use Efficiency (NUE) canola demonstrated that it can achieve high yields using significantly less nitrogen fertilizer than conventional varieties. In the chart above, note that NUE canola yielded 2800 lb/ac using two-thirds less nitrogen fertilizer than the conventional variety needed to generate the same yield.