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Arcadia Biosciences (RKDA) Expands Leadership Team with New Heads of Commercial Operations and Product Innovation
-- Arcadia promotes Kevin Hodges to Vice President, Commercial Operations, welcomes Tracy Baker as Vice President, Product Innovation -- DAVIS, Calif., Sept.
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[{"type":"text","content":"-- Arcadia promotes Kevin Hodges to Vice President, Commercial Operations, welcomes Tracy Baker as Vice President, Product Innovation --\n\n\nDAVIS, Calif., Sept. 17, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Arcadia Biosciences, Inc.® (Nasdaq: RKDA), a leader in science-based approaches to enhancing the quality and nutritional value of crops and food ingredients, today announced two new appointments to its leadership team. Kevin Hodges has been promoted to Vice President, Commercial Operations, overseeing the supply chain operations, manufacturing and marketing for Arcadia's existing products in the GoodWheat™, GoodHemp™ and SONOVA® GLA safflower oil product lines, while food and beverage industry veteran Tracy Baker has joined the company as Vice President, Product Innovation, responsible for leading product innovation and commercialization strategies for the company's GoodWheat™ and GoodHemp™ portfolios. \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\"As we work to accelerate the introduction of GoodWheat-based food products to consumers through online and grocery channels, we are adding the right capabilities, experience and leadership vision to ensure our best execution,\" said Matt Plavan, Arcadia's President and CEO. \"Moreover, to ensure we maximize the value capture of our proprietary ingredients, we must carefully navigate the myriad of new consumer food and nutritional supplement opportunities emerging in the direct-to-consumer space for both our GoodWheat and GoodHemp innovations.\"\nHodges has more than 20 years of management experience in the cereal grains industry. Prior to joining Arcadia in January 2020 as the General Manager of GoodWheat, he held senior roles in operations, marketing and IT digital systems for a national cereals seed brand at Bayer and Monsanto. He also served as a global business representative at Barkley Ag, leading the growth of a U.S. seed brand and shaping the expansion of a global cereal food ingredient business unit. Hodges began his career managing identity-preserved grain and seed programs at General Mills. \nPlavan continued, \"Kevin has leveraged his extensive cereal grains experience gained from his time with General Mills and Bayer to forge trusted and proven relationships with our channel partners, enabling him to make recent key advances in product commercialization and positioning him to lead the scale-up of our comme...