Darren Anderson

Dr. Darren Anderson is a co-founder and CEO of Vive Crop Protection and serves on its Board of Directors. Darren is passionate about using technology to improve the sustainability of agriculture while creating real results for growers. Darren is on the Board of CropLife America, the trade association for the pesticide industry in the USA; the Board of Life Sciences Ontario, Ontario’s leading trade association for life sciences; a member of the Advisory Committee for CHLOE, an organization committed to increasing STEM learning through agriculture and natural resources; and a founding member of ElectSTEM, a non-profit encouraging people with STEM backgrounds to run for political office.

Under Darren’s leadership, Vive has raised over $75M CAD ($60M USD) of equity and debt, launched the first nanotechnology-enabled pesticide products that are approved by the EPA, and built a business with products used on over 2.5M acres in 2022. Dr. Anderson is the inventor on 13 issued patents and 44 pending applications. Dr. Anderson earned his PhD from University of Toronto as an NSERC doctoral fellow.