Sound Agriculture, Emeryville, Calif., announced the appointment of Adam Litle as CEO on April 16. Litle joins Sound Agriculture from Granular, a farm management software company based in San Francisco, where he played an integral role leading the company from inception to acquisition by DuPont (now Corteva). While at Granular, Litle served as Senior Vice President, Revenue, and member of Corteva’s Global Leadership Team, as well as in a number of sales, marketing, business development, and operations functions.
Before Granular, Litle held general management and corporate development roles at Codexis, a biotech company serving the life science and food industries. He began his career as an investment banker at Barclays Capital, working on M&A and debt/equity financing in the healthcare sector.
Sound Agriculture also announced the appointment of Joel Lipsitch as Vice President of Marketing and Sam Wilson as Director of Agronomy. Lipsitch most recently led global sales and product management for Iteris ClearAg, a digital farming platform for crop analytics based in Santa Ana, Calif. Previously, he held senior roles at John Deere and Bayer Crop Science.
Wilson is an agronomy technical support expert with previous positions at FMC Corporation, Syngenta, ADAMA USA, Verdesian Life Sciences, and Nutrien Ag Solutions. Sound Agriculture said Wilson will work with a variety of crops across the U.S. to develop trial protocols to support product development, and will also provide technical support to customers.
Sound Agriculture was started six years ago by Eric Davidson, PhD, and Travis Bayer, PhD, as a science-based development company for agricultural products. The company’s latest product, Source™, was launched for the 2020 growing season as a biostimulant that is applied in-season to improve nitrogen and phosphorus uptake. Davidson will now transition from his role as CEO to a newly formed leadership role as Chief Administrative Officer.