Cibus, Inc. announced that its Board of Directors has elected Jim Collins, former CEO of Corteva, to the Board. From 2019 to 2021, Mr. Collins was CEO and a member of the Board of Corteva Agriscience, a Fortune 200 agricultural and seed company with 22,000 employees around the globe. During that time, he spearheaded many initiatives to enhance sustainability, focusing on helping farmers lead with new practices and innovations.

Before that, he served in various leadership positions in the agriculture business at Corteva?s predecessors, DowDuPont and DuPont. Mr. Collins serves on the Board of Archer Daniels Midland Company as Chair of the Board of Directors of Vestaron Corporation, and as an advisor to the University of Delaware?s College of Agriculture and Natural Resources. He previously served on the Board of CropLife International, the advisory board for the University of Delaware?s Alfred Lerner College of Business & Economics, and the Board of Trustees of the Hagley Museum and Library.

He was also a member of the US-China Business Council and the Business Roundtable, where he served on the Special Committee on Equity and Racial Justice and the Climate Policy and Trade Committees. Mr. Collins was also a University of Tennessee Lone Oaks Farm Advisory Council member and served on the Board of Trustees of Longwood Botanical Gardens. Mr. Collins holds a bachelor?s degree in chemical engineering from Christian Brothers University in Tennessee and an MBA from the University of Delaware.