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Phil S. Kerr, PhD

Chief Technology Officer
Houdek / Prairie AquaTech, LLC
Dardenne Prairie, Missouri, United States

Dr. Phil Kerr is the Chief Technology Officer of Houdek. Houdek discovers, develops, and commercializes value-added nutrition solutions for global aquaculture and companion animals. These solutions include those produced using unique supply chains within the Northern Plains that deploy identity-preserved, high-protein soybeans produced using leading methods for oilseed production for crop sustainability. Prior to joining Houdek (formerly known as Prairie AquaTech) in July 2019, Phil was Sr. Director of Grain and Food Science Research and Development of Indigo Agriculture where he led multiple initiatives to assess the nutritional and functional characterization of grains and oilseeds produced using regenerative agricultural practices including the use of unique endophytic microorganisms as crop quality enhancing production inputs. Before joining Indigo Agriculture, Phil served in multiple leadership roles with DuPont Agricultural Products, Solae LLC, and DuPont Nutrition and Health. His experience ranges from creating new ingredients with enhanced, holistic quality attributes to the formation and management of strategic private/public relationships that enabled them and brought them to global commercial status. Included in his experiences during his tenure at DuPont / Solae, Phil collaborated in the development of novel, identity-preserved grain and oilseed supply chains that utilized crops whose quality traits had been enhanced thru the use of both modern biotechnology and conventional breeding techniques. Phil serves as the Vice President of the Protein Highway Initiative, a network for facilitating cross-border collaboration for plant protein-based innovation and commercialization from the US Midwest/Northern Plains and the Canadian Prairie Provinces. He is an active member of the Institute of Food Technologists and the American Oil Chemists Society, where he also serves as the Past President of its Governing Board’s Executive Committee.

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