Cliff Bradley, CEO

Bradley, MBAI co-founder and President has 30 years’ experience in applied mycology and bioproduct development.  Former Vice President of Mycotech Corporation, he led biopesticide product development from strain selection to EPA regulatory approval and sales. He managed regulatory compliance and established product distribution in Europe, Latin America and Japan. Bradley is a principal investigator on USDA and NSF SBIR grants, and is an Inventor on 7 patents.  

Bob Kearns, Co-Founder

Kearns is MBAI’s co-founder with three decades experience in bioprocess engineering and scale up.  Former president of Mycotech Corporation, he designed and managed construction of a commercial fungal bioinsecticide plant. Kearns led financing for Mycotech, raising $25 million in venture capital.

Hikmet Budak, CSO

Budak, is Chief Science Officer of MBAI with 20 years academia and industry research at the cutting edge of wheat genetics and genomics to have better understanding a/biotic stress response mechanisms. He has authored over 150 research papers related to wheat genetics and stress response in academic journals. Please visit:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=4IRe3WYAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2556-2478