Keith Pitts
Chief Sustainability Officer, Marrone Bio Innovations
Keith Pitts is the Chief Sustainability Officer for Marrone Bio Innovations, where he manages the company’s regulatory and government affairs portfolio and oversees sustainability strategies and initiatives for MBI. He joined MBI in 2008, after serving at the U.S. Department of Agriculture as a special assistant to Secretary Dan Glickman, as Director of Public Policy for the Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology and as a subcommittee staff director for the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Agriculture. He has served in numerous senior legislative, administrative, regulatory and public policy roles for more than three decades, and has been actively involved in shaping domestic and international policies regarding pesticides, organic agriculture, agricultural biotechnology, invasive species, climate change, specialty crops and food safety