About Us
Founded in October 2012 in Cambridge, Pangaea Biosciences’ objective is the development of innovative and safer crop protection products from novel academic research.
Currently under development is a portfolio of safer crop protection products based on existing active ingredients in combination with patented technology that overcomes insect, weed and disease resistance.
Ongoing research projects have received extensive funding from UK and EU grant schemes, including:
- UK Technology Strategy Board
- East of England Agritech Strategy fund
- Collaborative European grant funding
- Innovate UK
Pangaea Biosciences licences its patented technologies to lead players in the agricultural sector across the world.
We are seeking distribution partners
We are currently seeking partners to help us distribute Pangaea products globally. If you are interested in becoming a partner or wish to find out more, please get in touch today.
Our Team
Our knowledgeable and culturally diverse management team has a wealth of experience in the European crop protection industry speaking more than 15 languages.
Our lean organisation encompasses a diverse blend of entrepreneurial account managers, vast experience in global purchasing and supply chain management and an expansive European regulatory know-how in the head office and through in-country alliances.
The above allows us to build strong and growing customer relationships throughout Europe.
Nick Gooch
Executive Chairman
Group Founder and Managing Director, with 28 years in agrochemicals. He has held Senior Management roles within Dow & Rohm & Haas before establishing his own business.
Stuart Smith
Non-Executive Chairman
I am joining Pangaea because I believe that their novel and innovative solutions to overcoming resistance to agro-chemicals and thereby provide huge benefits to agriculture across the globe, is an enormous development and I greatly look forward to working with the team to deliver those results.
Andy Prewer
Chief Scientist
MSc in Advanced Organic Chemistry and Inventor of continuous dual-phase synthesis holding multiple international patents. A Founding Scientist at Swedish Biomimetics 3000, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and a Nominee for European Inventor of the Year 2016.
Roger Pinder
Global Business Development Manager
Experienced agribusiness manager focused on the crop protection sector and worked in several multinational companies & regional distributors in Europe & Asia-Pacific.
Claire Baker
COO
20 years of experience in Purchasing and stock control within Agricultural and engineering Sectors whilst also undertaking Senior Administration and system Process responsibilities.
Ashley Peddle
Global Purchasing Manager
Has worked for over 20 years within the Procurement and Supply Chain function. He Brings a broad wealth of knowledge in best practice procurement along with the practical experience of embedding that into standard operating procedures.
David Walker
Non-Executive Director
MBA Chartered MCIPD. Specialisms include leadership, business strategy, sales and marketing.
Why Us
Pangaea Biosciences group of companies have:
- Operated for more than 20 years across Europe.
- An established network of more than 100 wholesalers, resellers and farmers.
- A multi-national sales and technical team with hundreds of years of combined experience in their markets, focusing on the UK, Germany, France, Poland, Czech Republic, Italy, Spain, Portugal and the Baltics.
- Our regulatory department employs four registration/ label specialists coordinating with a network of in-country consultants.
- Pangaea’s early research, financed from its sales income together with winning funding from European grant schemes, has allowed us to commercialise our first product BOOSTER™ in 2021.
The Pangaea group of companies with its long history of distribution in the agricultural, horticultural and amenity sectors will distribute the products in Europe.
In the rest of the world, distribution partners are working with Pangaea on a licensing or distribution basis.
The product roll-out will initially focus on the European, Asian and Australian markets where the regulatory process is easier and the Pangaea team and network have extensive market knowledge of the above regions.
Upon registration approval of the first products, Pangaea will build a range containing other active ingredients with the carbohydrate complex replacing the surfactants.
Pangaea products can be used to overcome a great number of weed and pest resistance.
Tell us what weeds or pest resistance you are facing.
We would be happy to discuss how Pangaea products can help you overcome those resistances.