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Thursday, July 02 2020 - 07:28
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AgBiTech Appoints Adriano Vilas Boas as New CEO
DALLAS, July 2, 2020 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --

AgBiTech Pty Ltd ("AgBiTech" or the "Company"), a Paine Schwartz Partners, LLC 
portfolio company and a global leader in biological pest control, today 
announced that Adriano Vilas Boas has been appointed Chief Executive Officer, 
effective July 1st, 2020. Mr. Vilas Boas succeeds Peter Berweger, a Director of 
Paine Schwartz Partners, who will remain actively engaged with AgBiTech as 
Chairman of the Board.

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Mr. Berweger said, "It has been a great honor to act as CEO of AgBiTech over 
the past two years, to lead the Company during an intensive period of buildup 
and high growth. I have had the chance to work with Adriano extensively in his 
capacity as General Manager of AgBiTech Brazil where he built a high impact 
organization, and I am excited for him to serve as our next CEO. He is a 
seasoned global leader and brings deep commercial and operational experience in 
the crop input sector. I am delighted about staying deeply involved as Chairman 
focusing on the strategic direction of the Company. I have great confidence in 
our management team and the opportunity ahead for AgBiTech's pest control 
solutions to become foundational tools for growers around the world."

"AgBiTech is a unique innovator in biological pest control and I am excited to 
take on the role of Chief Executive Officer," said Mr. Vilas Boas. "AgBiTech 
has an unraveled portfolio of biological lep control products, highly valuable 
for large scale and small growers in a large number of crops and pests around 
the globe. With the Company's recent successes with new registrations, the 
established operations in our core markets, our scientific capabilities and the 
manufacturing competence center in Dallas, I am excited about leading the next 
phase of growth and expansion.  I look forward to working closely with Peter 
and the rest of the AgBiTech team as we realize our vision to solve some of the 
most challenging pest control problems farmers are facing."

About Adriano Vilas Boas
Adriano Vilas Boas has over 20 years of experience in marketing, strategy & 
planning and commercial management. He has been with AgBiTech since 2018 after 
10 years in leading commercial roles in the crop protection industry. He holds 
an MBA, BS in software engineering and has completed executive graduate 
programs in agriculture leadership.

About AgBiTech
AgBiTech is a global leader in agriculture technology that helps create healthy 
food systems to sustain our families and our planet for the 21st century. The 
Company is a rapidly growing and transformative crop protection company 
focusing on science based biological insect protection against lepidopteran 
pests. The products are harnessing natural insect pathogens to control major 
pests and can be as effective as chemicals standalone or be used in combination 
with chemicals for highly effective integrated pest management (IPM). Farmers 
around the world in broad acre field and specialty crops are benefitting from 
reliable, sustainable and cost-effective tools to prevent crop loss, and the 
products are highly valuable within regenerative agricultural systems. AgBiTech 
was founded in Australia in 2002 and its operational headquarters were 
established in 2017 in Dallas Fort Worth, USA, with additional presence in 
Brazil, Africa and South Asia. For further information, visit www.agbitech.com. 

About Paine Schwartz Partners 
A global leader in sustainable food chain investing, Paine Schwartz Partners is 
a private equity firm focused exclusively on investment opportunities in the 
fast-growing, dynamic global food and agribusiness sectors. The firm's 
investment, operations and finance professionals invest throughout cycles 
across the food and agribusiness value chain, and bring a collaborative and 
active management approach to portfolio companies. For further information, 
please see www.paineschwartz.com. 

Source - AgBiTech

CONTACT: Gitta Hansen, AgBiTech CFO and US COO, ghansen@agbitech.com