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Norfolk Healthy Produce

NHP Core Team Sept 30, 2024

Our mission is to deliver nutritious, beautiful Purple Tomatoes™ to customers who embrace biotechnology for good and value our commitment to positive impact.

The NHP Team

Dr. Nathan Pumplin

CEO
Entrepreneur and Plant Biologist

Operations
Oscar Ayala
Ian Baker
Mike Crowley
Jessica Garver
Saarah Kuzay
Bobby Michel
Gerty Cori Ward
Advisors
Harry Klee
Dave Lawrence
Wayne Merkelson
David Saravitz
Lisa Zannoni

Norfolk Healthy Produce:Bringing Innovation to Market

Norfolk Healthy Produce is the US-based commercial company, dedicated to developing and marketing products that meet consumer and partner needs, using the cutting-edge and safe innovations developed by NPS.

Backed by an experienced group of investors and advisors, led by Stephen Thomson and Eric Ward, Norfolk Healthy Produce is bringing to market a portfolio of health-benefitting traits in tasty and appealing fruits & vegetables.
Norfolk's first product line is the dark purple antioxidant tomato, which is being developed into several consumer appealing products.

CEO Nathan Pumplin, an entrepreneur with biotechnology commercialization and research backgrounds, leads Norfolk Healthy Produce.

Norfolk Plant Sciences:A Source of Innovation

Norfolk Plant Sciences is a company based at The John Innes Centre and The Sainsbury Laboratory, which together form one of the world's leading plant science research institutes.

The company was established by world-renowned Professors Cathie Martin and Jonathan Jones to enable their ground-breaking plant research to make a positive impact in people’s lives.

The Founding Team

Prof. Cathie Martin
Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE), Fellow of the Royal Society, Rank Prize for Nutrition
Prof. Jonathan Jones
Fellow of the Royal Society and US National Academy of Sciences
Stephen Thomson
Experienced board member, non-executive director and investor
Dr. Eric Ward
Co-CEO AgBiome raised >$250M, former President of Syngenta & Novartis Ag Biotech