Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
May 7, 2025
Inari, the SEEDesign™ company, appointed long-time agriculture industry leader Lisa Nunez Safarian to its board of directors, effective May 1, 2025.
"Lisa has dedicated her career to advancing agriculture and helping farmers achieve better outcomes, with three-plus decades in key commercial, product development and strategy roles at market leaders and beyond," said Inari Board Chair Ignacio Martinez. "Her insights will be invaluable as we further progress in delivering our step-change, high-yielding seed products to customers."
Safarian was most recently president and chief operating officer at Pivot Bio. Prior to that, she held leadership positions at Monsanto and Bayer for more than 30 years, where her responsibilities included strategic growth, commercial transformation, product supply and market development. Most notably, Safarian helped build Monsanto’s $12 billion seeds, traits, licensing, and crop protection businesses as the Vice President of North America before transitioning to President, Crop Science North America for Bayer as part of the company’s acquisition of Monsanto. She is also a board member at RiceTec Inc. and holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.
"Having a front row seat to many of this industry’s big shifts over the past 30-plus years has been a great privilege, and I fully believe Inari is on the forefront of the next one,” Safarian said. “I look forward to working with the team and lending my expertise to help realize the full potential of Inari’s game-changing seed innovations.”
Learn more at Inari.com.
About Inari
Inari, the SEEDesign™ company, develops seeds that address the world’s needs, pushing the boundaries of what is possible for a more sustainable, nature-positive food system. Through a combination of AI-enabled predictive design and a pioneered multiplex gene editing toolbox, the company is unlocking the full potential of seed to bring step-change soybean, corn and wheat products to market. Founded by Flagship Pioneering in 2016, Inari is based in Cambridge, Mass., with additional sites in West Lafayette, Ind., and Ghent, Belgium. Inari is a growing team of more than 300 employees working to solve the critical issues of food security and sustainability. To learn more, visit Inari.com.
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