Hilary Mayton is the Crop Protection Lead at Zymtronix and will continue with the development of ZymPure and ZymGuard seed treatments as well as new sustainable plant protection products. She obtained her PhD in Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology from Cornell University. She has over twenty years of research experience working in several laboratories at Cornell for 11 years and 5 years working on a bioenergy project in the Plant Breeding and Genetics department. She has spent the past four years working in the Seed Science and Technology Laboratory located at Cornell AgriTech.