Some of Our Services

 Richard Higby holds bachelor and doctoral degrees in chemistry from the University of California. He has work experience with The Clorox Company (R&D, sodium hypochlorite), Rio Linda Chemical Co. (regulatory, chlorine dioxide), Ecolab (marketing, peroxyacetic acid), Arista Laboratories (CEO, tobacco), Microbac (MD, pharma), Covance (Director, microbiology), and Eurofins (VP, microbiology). Throughout his experience, Richard has sought innovation in product chemistry and regulatory approval that have opened new markets and delivered significant revenue. Richard has excellent presence and quickly establishes rapport with the customer whether that is regulatory or revenue generative.  

Expertise

● General Management  ●  Strategy Development ● Market   Evaluation ●

● Operational Excellence ● Innovation ● Business Development ● Chemistry, Microbiology ●

Market Experience

 ● Laboratory Services ● Food Testing, Inspection, Certification ● Tobacco Compliance, Constituent Testing ● Water Treatment Antimicrobials ●

• Managing EPA FIFRA applications for sodium chlorite and authoring five food additive petitions for chlorine dioxide (regulatory, innovation, Rio Linda).
• Launching INSPEXX, a meat and poultry antimicrobial (marketing, regulatory, development, innovation, Ecolab)
• Achieving a 95% market share for ignition propensity testing (regulatory, marketing, innovation, Arista)
• Improving operational margin 20% (operations, Microbac)
• Establishing a probiotic center-of-excellence (innovation, Covance)
• Launching next-generation sequencing as a product offering for routine microbiology (marketing, innovation, Eurofins)

• Performance Management
• Forecasts
• Strategic Marketing Support
• Facilitator
• HR and Management Reporting