TEAM

David Abecassis – Career Scientist /Entrepreneur
Chief Science Officer/Managing Director/Founder

Establishes strategies and procedures for company board to review. Directs  business-scientific research-strategy coordination. Does company IP. Creates strategic alliances with other entities outside Green Growers. Stays out of the way of others after delegating. Checks in to measure progress and preside over meetings.

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Avi Cooper – Career Business and Sales Professional/Entrepreneur
Chief Executive Officer/Co-founder

Avi is a visionary who has brought this alliance together with his expertise and experience. With an extensive background in business, sales, and marketing Avi has established contracts with clients, manages the company operations, coordinates sales and marketing activities with his staff and is a master communicator. With his mission to solve the major global issue of world hunger, the technology behind GGTA can and will support feeding kids and the impoverished on a global scale. This is the personal mission of Avi Cooper, and the foundation in which the Green Growers Technology Alliance was founded on.

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Brett Hess
Chief Security Officer

Brett is a Veteran, a former member of the Naval Special Warfare community, a US Navy SEAL. After 12 years of honorable service Brett departed the military to purse higher education at Regent University. During that transitional period Mr. Hess participated in worldwide governmental and corporate security solution programs. Additionally, he led safety awareness initiatives and ground security operations for international humanitarian organizations. His background, experience and credentials for corporate safety, security planning and business intelligence are substantial; having served numerous industry leaders in their efforts to protect information, critical assets and key individuals. His hobby and free time passion are for Combat Jiu-jitsu and Thai Boxing, with a certification from the National Academy of Sports Medicine- as a Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) Conditioning Specialist.

 

Mikhail Myagkov PhD – Co-Founder GGTA
Chief Technology Officer

Mikhail is a founding partners of GGTA and a key participant in Titan Bioplastics and GGTA Biotech. Mikhail has a PhD from the prestigious Mendeleev Institute of Chemistry, and over 40 years of chemistry experience in synthesis and polymers.

 

Jason S. Matuskiewicz - Corporate Counsel

Jason is Corporate counsel to Green Growers Technology Alliance, LLC and to its related companies. Mr. Matuskiewicz brings his vast legal experience to GGTA including representing real estate developers, property owners, lenders, and tenants in connection with purchasing, selling, financing, permitting, construction, title, leasing, and workouts. He has counseled and advised numerous start-up companies, businesses that are expanding, and ones that need workouts

 

Ken Pischel – Business Consultant
Chief Financial Officer

is the founder and Managing Member of Dynamic Business Consultants LLC, a firm that provides financial consulting services to businesses in the areas of financial operations and strategies. Located in Northport, NY the firm services clients in the tri-state New York area.  Assuming the role of part-time CFO and strategic business consultant, Dynamic Business Consultants LLC assists companies in both growth and crisis mode with Domestic and International planning, managing cash flow, establishing proper policies for customer, and vendor relationships, loan facilities, and internal budgeting procedures. In addition, it assists business owners in making cost-effective decisions, using budgeting tools, profitability models, risk/reward analysis, financial statement analysis and forecasting, measuring operational efficiencies to maximize labor, product and service utilization.

Mr. Pischel is a graduate of Hofstra University where he was awarded a BBA in marketing and an MBA in accounting. Recognized as a top 40 Long Island Business Executive under 40 by Long Island Business News he is a accomplished public speaker and author of several articles on business strategies. In addition, he is a former adjunct professor at Stony Brook University School of Business where he taught Business 220, Business Decisions Sciences.

 

Gloria Wilson – Company Administrator Science & Operations

Gloria is a trained lab technician and a former employee of Cold Spring Harbor Labs. She is the company administrator for science and  operations. She is also our company research and operations technician.