Xun Wang PH.D
President and CEO
Dr. Xun Wang, President and CEO of Triton, is a leading biotechnology executive in the algae industry and a thought leader in the future food market space. Before joining Triton, he was the head of bioscience technologies at Reliance Industries Ltd (a global Fortune 100 company), and the CTO at Sapphire Energy Inc. Dr. Wang has been a board member of Algae Biomass Organization since 2016.
Prior to that, Dr. Wang had a successful 20-year career in several prominent agriculture companies. Dr. Wang was the President of Syngenta China, the Biotech Research and Technology Head of Syngenta in North Carolina RTP, the Founder and a Director of Novartis Agricultural Discovery Institute in San Diego, and Research Manager of Corn Genomics in Pioneer Hi-Bred International, in Johnston Iowa. Dr. Wang is an author or co-author of over 50 patents, and has published over 20 international peer-reviewed research articles.
Dr. Wang earned a Ph.D. in Biochemistry & Biophysics from Iowa State University, and a BS in Chemistry and a MS in Biochemistry from Jilin University, China.
““Having worked for much of my career in large traditional agriculture companies, it is beyond exciting for me to now be heading up a cutting-edge future foods company that is bringing to the market a brand new “crop” of healthy and nutritious food. For an ag scientist like me, being actively engaged in providing new solutions to the very serious challenges of increasing global demand for food and protein is literally a dream come true!””