Staff
Jim Elser
Director, Sustainable Phosphorus Alliance
Jim Elser is a limnologist and National Academy of Sciences member with research focused on the effect of key limiting nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus in lake ecosystems. He is a Research Professor and Distinguished Sustainability Scientist in ASU’s School of Life Sciences and School of Sustainability and serves as the Director for the Sustainable Phosphorus Alliance. He is also director of the Flathead Lake Biological Station of the University of Montana.
Matt Scholz
Senior Program Manager, Sustainable Phosphorus Alliance
Matt Scholz is the Senior Project Manager for the Sustainable Phosphorus Alliance and a Research Professor at Arizona State. He worked for 3 years as a Senior Research Scientist for The Sustainability Consortium after completing a postdoc in the Department of Chemistry at Colorado School of Mines and a PhD at the University of Arizona, where his research focused on algal biofuels. He has worked in maize molecular genetics and holds an MS in environmental engineering from the University of Arizona.
Board of directors
Ryan Bond
VP, Innovation, Business Development, and Agronomy
Koch Agronomic Services
Adam Herges
Sustainability Agronomist Advisor, The Mosaic Company
Kerry McNamara
Senior Advisor, OCP North America
Ron Restum
Chief Commercial Officer, Ostara
Ross Sozzani
Professor, North Carolina State University
Hunter Swisher
Founder & CEO, Phospholutions
