Martha Schlicher

Martha Schlicher is an Entrepreneur in Residence at BioGenerator. Previously she was Vice President, R&D, Specialty Generics at Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals. She has over 25 years of direct agricultural industry experience from previous roles at Monsanto, leading a not for profit, and leading Technology and Business Development for a London based renewables company. Martha held roles within Monsanto leading Global Stakeholder Engagement and Sustainability, the Environmental and Regulatory Sciences and Regulatory Policy Groups, the Agricultural Biotech Crop Teams, Office of the President, and the US Western Corn Belt Commercial Business. Martha has a B.S. degree in Chemistry from Indiana University, a Ph.D. in Bio-organic Chemistry from the University of Illinois and an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.

Martha serves as an advisor to the current U.S. Secretary of Energy, as a Trustee for the St. Louis Academy of Science, as a member of the United States Department of Energy Biological and Environmental Research Advisory Committee, as a member of the Strategic Technology Council to Nidus Research Partners, and as an industry advisor to the International Center for Advanced Renewable Energy Research at Washington University in St. Louis, the Department of Agricultural Economics at University of Missouri – Columba, and the National Corn Grower Association.