Antoine Bernet is the Country Division Head for Crop Science and President of Bayer Inc in Canada since June 2023. He leads 500+ employees in Crop Science, with locations spanning from coast to coast. Originally from France, Antoine has been with Bayer for 20 years. With a passion for advancing agriculture, he joined the Crop Science Division in 2005 as a sales representative and has since held leadership positions across sales and marketing. He came to Canada in 2023 from Poland where he was the Crop Science Country Division Head for Poland, Baltics, Czech Republic and Slovakia. In that role, Antoine was responsible for delivering growth and accelerating transformation initiatives across six Central European countries. Antoine and his team in Canada are currently focused on implementing Bayer’s operating model, Dynamic Shared Ownership. The new model empowers Bayer teams to be more responsive to farmers, capitalizing on innovation and opportunities to increase yield and maximize profits.