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Learn from a Local: Gaston Salinas, CEO of Botanical Solution
April 4 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
About Our Speaker: Gaston Salinas
Gaston Salinas, Co-founder and CEO at Botanical Solution, Inc, is an Industrial Engineer who has built his professional career around science-based ventures and corporate innovation. After initially starting his career in Santiago Chile, Gaston came to the U.S. in 2019 to establish Botanical Solution Inc. and conduct business development for the firm’s botanical ingredients. Gaston’s knowledge and practice acquired after ten years in professional consulting has allowed him to translate a promising research project from university into an international business with growing revenues and a solid value proposition for multi-billion-dollar industries.
About Botanical Solution
Botanical Solution, Inc., a Delaware corporation, has a proprietary R&D platform for truly sustainable and improved production of consistent and high-quality Advanced Botanical Materials (ABM). The company’s ABM-01 is the first Advanced Botanical Material produced by the company, based on a tissue-cultured plant called Quillaja saponaria. ABM-01 is the active ingredient used in two gold standard products, BSI’s biofungicide Quillibrium® for plant health, and the adjuvant QS-21, currently used in two blockbuster FDA-approved human vaccines. Originally founded in Santiago, Chile, Botanical Solution continues to conduct development and large-scale material production in Chile, but has subsequently established business development and R&D functions in our Sacramento region. To learn more visit www.botanical-solution.com.
About The Series: Learn From a Local
Learn from a Local is an on-going speaker series hosted by AgStart, a non-profit organization supporting entrepreneurs advancing innovation in agriculture, food, and health. Typically on the 1st Thursday evening of every month, AgStart hosts a local speaker from the agriculture, food, and health world to speak on a topic relevant to our entrepreneurial ecosystem. Our goal is to offer a space to connect with local individuals and learn from leaders in our local AgriFoodTech sector on topics relevant to our AgStart community. Events take place in our AgStart Event Center: 1100 Main St., Suite 170, Woodland, CA 95695. An approximate event agenda is detailed below.
Learn more at www.agstart.org