Alex Cochran
CTO Douglas Plant Health
Alex Cochran, Ph.D., joined Douglas Plant Health in June 2021 as Chief Technology Officer, responsible for advancing the company’s science and technology portfolio. He brings more than twenty years of agricultural research & development experience, holding multiple leadership roles at Syngenta and Corteva focused on crop protection, seed treatments and biologicals. Alex has an exceptional record of developing some of the most successful active ingredients and product concepts for foliar, seed, soil and turf applications.
Seminars
Wednesday 10th June 2026
Roundtable: Making Biologicals Work in the Real World – Soil Health, Regional Variability & Proof of Performance
4:00 pm
- Debating how soil health metrics, microbial community data, and agronomic measurements should be used to define efficacy
- Examining why biological products succeed in some regions and fail in others, and how to design trials that capture context
- Discussing what localized data, field evidence, and success thresholds growers need to trust and adopt biological inputs
