New personnel are bringing their expertise and enthusiasm

Since the beginning of March, we have been welcoming Dirk Aerts to be the new area manager North and Western Europe. Also Biobest USA expanded with a new face, Veronica Cervantes. Passionate for Biological Control, Veronica has been involved in IPM for over 15 years.

Biobest keeps growing as a company and with that there are also more people to take up the job.
Since the beginning of March, we have been welcoming Dirk Aerts to be the new area manager North and Western Europe.
Dirk is a bio-engineer and has been working for several (international) companies in the agricultural business with a very large and technical focus on greenhouse crops and irrigation, with responsibilities in the Mediterranean and MEA region.
He was also employed for several years as sales manager at YARA and therefore based in Australia.
Dirk is married and lives in Nieuwerkerken (B).



Also Biobest USA expanded with a new face, Veronica Cervantes. Passionate for Biological Control, Veronica has been involved in IPM for over 15 years. She started in 1996 as a volunteer at IMYZA INTA Castelar in Argentina, where she worked in the mass rearing and greenhouse releases of Orius insidiosus . In 1997 she joined Magan Argentina, a subsidiary of the Makhteshim Agan Group – an international agrochemical company- where she worked in the development, marketing and registration of agrochemicals. In 2001 she moved to Canada and she completed her MSc degree at UBC on the biological control of cabbage loopers using an entomopathogenic virus. In 2005 she joined The Bug Factory Ltd., a distributor of Biobest in western Canada, serving greenhouses and field crops in BC, AB and western USA. She and her family recently moved to Michigan where she joined the Biobest USA team and she will be servicing Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin.