Renaissance BioScience Corp. adds a Key Strategic Board Advisor
Kenneth P. Judge Brings Strong Strategic Commercial Development and Global M&A Experience to Renaissance
Vancouver, Canada — August 14, 2022 — Renaissance BioScience Corp., a leader in bioengineering for the global agriculture and food industries, is pleased to announce that it has retained the services of Kenneth P. Judge to assist the Renaissance Board of Directors and management team in their corporate development planning and execution, concentrating on the financing of corporate expansion and technology and commercial partnership development.
Mr. Judge is based in Monte Carlo, Monaco, from where he is engaged in investment activities and the development of public and private companies with businesses that are developing and deploying emerging technologies. A mergers, acquisitions and securities lawyer by background, he has extensive legal, commercial and financial experience in cross - border mergers and acquisitions, corporate reconstructions and reorganizations and public company/capital markets’ financings on most of the recognized stock exchanges around the world. In addition, Mr. Judge has broad commercial, corporate governance and capital markets’ equity and debt financing experience across many international jurisdictions and has held a significant number of public company chairmanships and acted as the chief executive, chief financial officer and as a non-executive director of public companies listed on internationally recognized stock exchanges in Canada, the UK, Australia, Ireland and Peru.
Maurice Boucher, Renaissance’s Executive Chair, commented on the appointment: “Ken’s broad and high level industry experience, contact base, strategic vision, and governance oversight capabilities are a perfect fit to maximize the extensive global commercial opportunities for valuable product creation in agricultural crop protection, animal health and biocontrol, and eventually human health, that the Renaissance RNA platform technology has application for, in addition to the precision fermentation bioengineering capabilities Renaissance has developed to impact the Food and Beverage industries. As well, his extensive understanding of what is required for emerging companies to efficiently finance their development is very valuable to Renaissance, its Board and shareholders. We are very pleased and fortunate that Ken Judge has chosen to include Renaissance as one of the companies he is helping to build.”
Mr. Judge commented, “After considerable discussion and due diligence over an extended period of time, I remain highly impressed by the remarkable innovation capability of the Renaissance Bioscience team to develop and commercialize unique food and beverage products, a number of which are already being marketed by well recognized distributors into North American and European markets. I am confident that Renaissance BioScience will continue to innovate and develop next-generation technologies which can help multiple large-scale industries maximize economic returns more sustainably.” He added, “The company’s early success using bioengineering for the development and improvement of food and beverage products and its continued focus on the development of valuable, strategic, proprietary intellectual property has created a strong foundation to expand Renaissance’s presence within environmentally important agricultural uses for crop protection and animal health.
I am delighted to be able to help the Renaissance team to bring these important products, with increased environmental sustainability benefits and commercial efficiency features, to domestic and international commercial markets.”
About Renaissance BioScience Corp.
Based in Vancouver, Canada, Renaissance is a leading bioengineering company whose platform technologies are used to develop innovative, market-ready, functional microorganisms that provide cost-effective solutions to address a broad range of environmental, health and industrial efficiency challenges. Renaissance technologies create products for multiple end-use industries, including food & beverage, agriculture, animal and human health and energy. Detailed information about the Renaissance group of companies is available at www.renaissancebioscience.com.
For further information or to arrange interviews, please contact:
Steve Campbell
Campbell & Company Strategies Inc.
Communications and Public Relations
Vancouver, BC CANADA
01 604-888-5267
For commercial or technology development inquiries:
info@renaissancebioscience.com