Specialty crop input company Inocucor, Denver, reports that Natalie Shuman has been named director of marketing. She will be responsible for brand management, communications, product management, trade marketing, and product lifecycle management for Inocucor’s microbial and plant nutrient technologies. During her nine-year career at Sun World International, a global producer and marketer of proprietary seedless table grapes, she directed business-to-business marketing, consumer marketing, and communications programs internationally.
Shuman holds a B.A. in Mass Communication Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Inocucor, which currently employs about 40 people in Montreal and the U.S., anticipates adding another 25-30 high-level scientific and managerial professionals over the next year. In May, Inocucor will occupy its new 30,000-square-foot U.S. headquarters and commercialization office, currently under construction in Centennial, Colo. Its Montreal-based, R&D-focused Technical Center of Excellence is currently being enlarged from 10,000 to 20,000 square feet to house expanded product development and manufacturing operations.