Juan Arhancet

Dr. Juan Arhancet is CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors of nanoSUR, LLC. Before founding nanoSUR, Dr. Arhancet served first as Chief Executive Officer and later as Chief Scientific Officer of Apse Inc. (2010 -2016), now doing business as RNAgri. Dr. Arhancet founded Apse Inc, which developed a fermentation process for the large scale, cost efficient production of RNA for agriculture applications. Prior to founding Apse he was Assoc. Fellow at Monsanto, St. Louis, for 12 years, where he developed and launched technology for the production of Glyphosate. Before joining Monsanto, Dr. Arhancet was Research Engineer at Shell Chemical’s R&D, Houston, TX, for 8 years.

Dr. Arhancet received a Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry from Universidad de la República, Uruguay, a Master’s Degree in Biology from Washington University in St. Louis, and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute. He holds more than 35 granted U.S. patents, and 9 publications.