Jacqueline Heard

Venture Partner
Anterra Capital

Jacqueline is founder and CEO of Enko Chem, Inc. and a Venture Partner at Anterra Capital.

She has a PhD in Biology from Boston College and an MBA from MIT Sloan. Her career in Agriculture has centered around the support of innovation in the sector by identifying and commercializing new technology, both as an entrepreneur at start-ups like CiBO Technologies and Mendel Biotechnology, and as a leader of global R&D and investments at Monsanto, Flagship and Two Blades Foundation.

She was instrumental in starting Monsanto Growth Ventures, setting up the corporate venture arm of a world leading agritech firm.

Jacqueline has served as an active Board member for her portfolio companies, and forged new open innovation structures for the industry by creating new companies like Nimbus Ceres Discovery and Preceres to develop novel Fungicide and RNA formulation assets using capital efficient, semi virtual models.