The Dutch seed company chose Anjou to establish a research activity

Olivier Auguin

Coordinator of the Committee on interprofessional specialized plant (CIVS), a graduate of the Ecole de commerce in Angers, also holds a master's degree in management of territorial development, is the host of the pole of competitiveness, as head of project employee in the Committee of economic expansion of the Maine-et-Loire. It is now to coordinate and organize the actions of the interprofessional Committee of specialized plant. This framework of thirty-seven years began his career in the Datar, before work on the Committee of economic expansion of the expensive and then to the economic development of the Berry, particularly in the Sodie.

Jean-Pierre Bernheim

This mining engineer, aged fifty-eight years, is an alloy of the pole as the leader of Vaslin-Bucher, a subsidiary of the Swiss Bucher Industries, considered the world leader of presses and other equipment for processing of grapes and winemaking. This know-how puts at the heart of the wine sector, part of the plant. Backed by extensive experience in R & D, this native of Neuilly, father of five children, is always involved in local economic life. He chaired the pole of research and innovation, Angers and seat on the Board of Directors of Angers agglomeration development. At the national level, it chairs the Sygma, the General Union of manufacturers of tractors and agricultural machinery.

Jean-Pierre Challet

Fourth generation at the head of the family company established in 1892, Challet-Hérault, specialist plant reproduction and leading French pot chrysanthemum, Jean-Pierre Challet embarked on varietal selection and creation as early as 1984. If he chose to join the angevin pole, it is for further research, cross ways and experiences and to contribute to the training of future employees of horticulture. The leader, involved in the thematic health quality and varietal creation, table on schools and laboratories, better equipped his company to multiply tests in vivo and analyze the results.

Christian Hecker

After twenty years past in the direction of seed companies and horticulture, Christian Hecker founded Iftech in 2004. This small company of four represents the ideal example of technology transfer pole proponents would like to see multiply. The company indeed values the result of research developed by the Horticultural Institute (INH) in the production of larvae of Lacewing, a predatory insect, to rid gardens and parks of aphids, mites, mealy bugs... It has also launched Mycor, a second product using the mycorrhizal fungi to improve growth and the resistance of plants.

Patrice Laurendeau

It is within the representative of the vine and wine, that this large sector of 1,000 companies is still on the margins of collective projects. The Anjou and Saumur wine Federation which he presides over the past two years is yet committed to make short-term projects instead of vine in the preservation of the countryside or on the techniques and winemaking tools. The working group that he associated with organizations whose Inao, the ITV, Inra, or the the pressoir Vaslin-Bucher, world number one industrial. He was teacher in the field of the oenology and viticulture operate with a partner in the vineyard "Field of Terrebrune", in Notre-Dame of Alençon.

Hervé de Saint-Pierre

Hervé de Saint-Pierre, forty years, directs Enza Zaden France since its implementation in Allonnes in 1999. This commercial training made the beginning of his career at Nunhems, another seed, then at Fiberweb before driving the development of Enza Zaden in France. The Dutch seed company chose Anjou to establish a research activity. Although that was involved in a research project, he said however doubtful on the possibility of developing with competitors in research projects further while this type of cooperation is long in the Netherlands.