Jacqueline Heard

Jacqueline is the founder and CEO of Enko and a Venture Partner at Anterra Capital. She has a Ph.D. in Biology from Boston College and an MBA from MIT Sloan. Her career in agriculture has centered around the support of innovation in the sector by identifying and commercializing new technology, both as an entrepreneur at start-ups like CiBO Technologies and Mendel Biotechnology, and as a leader of global R&D and investments at Monsanto, Flagship, and Two Blades Foundation. She was instrumental in starting Monsanto Growth Ventures, setting up the corporate venture arm of a world-leading agritech firm. Jacqueline has served as an active Board member for her portfolio companies and forged new open innovation structures for the industry by creating new companies like Nimbus Ceres Discovery and Preceres to develop novel Fungicide and RNA formulation assets using capital-efficient, semi-virtual models.