Dr. Michael Showell provides technical leadership and oversees development of Agri-Business products and Corporate Intellectual Property. Dr. Showell spent nearly 30 years as an Associate Director of R&D at Procter and Gamble.
He is the recipient of the Procter & Gamble Excellence in Innovation Award (1990), the American Oil Chemist Society Outstanding Paper Award (1991 & 1994) and the American Chemical Society Award for Team Innovation (1999).
He has been awarded 23 U.S. patents and authored numerous journal articles and book chapters, including many about fermentation and biocatalysis.