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Top Biotech Leaders to Judge Consider Corn Challenge V

The National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) is pleased to announce that industrial biotech luminaries Drs. Doug Cameron and Chris Guske will be judges for Consider Corn Challenge V. Cameron and Guske have been instrumental in discovery, development, scale-up, financing and on-going management of numerous biotech technologies.  Their participation as judges brings decades of expertise in identifying and commercializing successful products to the Consider Corn Challenge V winner selection process.

Doug Cameron’s career has spanned all aspects of industrial biotech.  He started his career as a Professor at the University of Wisconsin, prior to joining Cargill to build their biotechnology group. From Cargill, he transitioned to investing in biotech, leading investments in this space at Khosla Ventures and Piper Jaffray.

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