Martha Schlicher

Dr. Martha Schlicher currently serves an Entrepreneur in Resident at BioGenerator, a part of BioSTL focused on investments in the Agri Food Tech space as well as the CEO of two early stage agricultural startups: Impetus Agricultural Co and Plastomics, Inc.. Dr. Schlicher has more than 30 years of global experience leading the identification, development, commercialization, strategy, marketing and sales of new life sciences technologies and in the turnaround of organizations seeking new growth trajectories.

She most recently served as the CTO of Mallinckrodt Specialty Generics where she had responsibility for research and development, clinical pharmacology and development, program and portfolio strategy and management and regulatory sciences for the development and support of new generic drug products and new development platforms. Prior

Previously, Dr. Schlicher served as the vice president of corporate social responsibility, sustainability and stakeholder engagement at Monsanto. Additional leadership roles at Monsanto included new product crop strategy and development, environmental and regulatory science and policy, sales and marketing and Office of the President. She has additionally held roles leading business development at Divergence, an Ag tech start up sold to Monsanto, and GTL Resources, a renewable energy company sold to CHS.

Dr. Schlicher currently serves on the board at Greenlight Biosciences, the St. Louis College of Pharmacy and the Scientific Advisory Board for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories. She previously served on the board of GTL, publicly traded on the London AIM, the board of privately held, Illinois River Bioenergy, the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board to Secretary Moniz, as a Trustee for the St. Louis Academy of Science, and as a member of the United States Department of Energy Biological and Environmental Research Advisory Committee, and as an industry advisor to the International Center for Advanced Renewable Energy Research at Washington University in St. Louis, and the Department of Agricultural Economics at University of Missouri – Columbia.

Dr. Schlicher holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Indiana University, a doctor of philosophy degree in organic chemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and an MBA from Northwestern University.