Our team

Marta has 16 years’ experience working with multinational crop protection and bio-stimulant companies in the Mediterranean. Her areas of specialisation are vines, fruit and vegetables. During her career she has worked with a range of technologies, but for the last few years her focus has been on biological crop protection solutions and plant nutrition. Marta has been working to achieve the equilibrium of producing high-quality crops, with no negative impact on the natural environment. With a degree in Agricultural Sciences and Plant Breeding from the Universitat Politècnica Valencia and Università Cattolica Sacre Cuore, Marta has also completed post-degree studies in Strategic Marketing Management. She has coordinated numerous R&D projects and has published a number of scientific papers on crop protection.

Guido is an agronomist who has worked in crop protection since graduating with a PhD in Ecology of Agriculture. During his career he has worked for Pioneer Hi-Bred Italia, Monsanto Agricoltura Italia and EuroChem Agro, with roles in agronomy, new technology, and product and crop management. He has also assisted marketing teams, providing technical advice in developing and coordinating projects on soil fertility, precision farming, weather forecasting and mycotoxin contamination. He has published scientific papers on agriculture, new technology, crop protection and product risk assessment.

With an MSc in Agricultural Sciences, Alberto has worked in the agricultural industry since 1986. His early career was spent providing technical assistance to farmers through experimental test site facilities and efficacy field trail management. His career also found him working in global product management, product marketing, brand strategy and product development. Alberto has been working with AlphaBio since March 2021 as the Product Portfolio Development Lead, and now Research, Technical & Market Development Head, bringing with him a wealth of experience in crop protection.

Tom Smith MBA MAAT joined AlphaBio as Finance Director in January 2025. For over 20 years, Tom was the founder and CEO of an award-winning UK accounting practice, specialising in entrepreneurial start-up businesses. After a successful management buyout of his company in 2016, Tom set up a Portfolio Finance Director consulting business, to support some of his favourite former clients. Tom is passionate about ethical capitalism and sustainable business practises. For many years, he has been supporting the planting of trees in Africa to offset his (far too many) air miles. Tom is an avid skier, a consummate lover of history and classical music. He lives in the South of England with his Venezuelan partner and Lhasa Apso called Pema.

Stella has a degree in Industrial Chemistry from the University of Bologna in Italy and has over 25 years of experience in conventional crop protection, mainly in fungicides, herbicides, fumigants and fertilizers. Her first experiences were in residue laboratory analysis and quality control analysis, and then as a sales manager in Europe and the Middle East.
For the last 20 years she has been working in regulatory affairs, starting with the development of a new herbicide, and the preparation and submission of the dossier in the most important countries in the world, and then moved to manage other crop protection and fertilizer projects.
Stella has a global perspective, and a strategic vision to the business, analysing strong and weak aspects of any project from a registration point of view, making her an excellent addition to the AlphaBio team.

Azahara has a degree in Biology from Alcalá University and a PhD in Plant Biotechnology
from the Technical University of Madrid.

Originally from Spain, and with five years’ experience in regulatory affairs, including at Corteva and Vali Consulting, Azahara is based in Munich, Germany.

With her experience in project management, her expertise in the preparation and submission of dossiers for the authorisation of agrochemicals in the European area, and her understanding of both biopesticide and biostimulants dossiers, makes Azahara an excellent addition to the AlphaBio team.

With a degree in Agri-Food and Biological Systems from the Polytechnic University of Cartagena and two MSc’s in Agronomy, and Plant Health and Production, at the Polytechnic University of Valencia. He has previously worked as an intern at both Bayer Crop Science and Koppert.

Nicolás joined the Market and Technical Development Team at AlphaBio Control in February 2024 and is based in Cartagena, Spain.