James Iademarco founded and runs Strategic Avalanche, a global consulting firm focused on the agriculture, biotechnology, renewable chemicals and material sectors.

Strategic Avalanche enabled sustainable growth and value creation for a range of companies and was tasked to assess operations, refine business models, identify partnerships, structure go-to-market initiatives and raise strategic capital. Prior to founding Avalanche, Mr. Iademarco was Vice President of Integration for Biomedical Materials and Vice President, Biobased Chemicals and Materials for Royal DSM in Europe.

Prior to DSM, he was General Manager, Biomaterials, New Business Ventures, for Bayer Crop Science, where he led strategic investments spanning agricultural biotechnology, nutrition and iofuels and led teams to create a new biomaterials platform and to leverage existing agriculture trait technologies.

Mr. Iademarco holds an undergraduate degree in Biomedical and Chemical Engineering from Vanderbilt University. He earned his MBA from Columbia University and completed executive education at Wharton (USA) and IMD (Switzerland) business schools.