Dr. Ron Landis is Co-founder and CEO of Landis International, Inc. He has over 40 years of experience in the agricultural research and development area and has been actively working with and negotiating with the USDA/EPA since 1969, before the present-day EPA was formed.

With the founding of Landis in 1982, Dr. Landis introduced the concept of contract project management into the agricultural chemical realm. Prior to this, he had twelve years’ experience developing his project management skills in the agricultural chemical industry. He has developed contract ag-chem project management from its beginnings in 1982 to today’s computer-assisted project and program management.
Dr. Landis and Landis International’s approach to working with the U.S. EPA is unique in the industry in that they take a cooperative, non-confrontational, problem-resolution approach. His reputation as an individual who can obtain positive regulatory results is largely owing to this, both throughout the industry and with the EPA, as well as his ability to see the implications of alternative regulatory tactics and strategies.

Dr. Landis earned his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Plant Pathology from Michigan State University, and received his B.S. in Botany from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

Contact Information:
3185 Madison Highway
Post Office Box 5126
Valdosta, GA 31603-5126
Phone: (229) 247-6472
Fax: (229) 242-1562
Email: rlandis@landisintl.com

Julie earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Auburn University and her Master of Science degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Florida Institute of Technology.

With Landis International since 2002, she participates principally in the overall aspects of the research and regulatory development process, including studies management, reporting, resource allocation, personnel management and long-range strategic planning. Julie is responsible for facilitating efficiency and cooperation within the entire LANDIS team, to insure the successful, timely, and quality completion of projects on regional, national and international levels.

Contact Information:
3185 Madison Highway
Post Office Box 5126
Valdosta, GA 31603-5126
Phone: (229) 247-6472
Fax: (229) 242-1562
Email: jhorton@landisintl.com

Roger serves as Vice President/General Manager for Landis International. He is responsible for all administrative activities of the company, including finance, accounting, human resources, and the facility.

Roger joined Landis International in 2002, after a 16-year career in Human Resources including financial management for multiple facilities with several corporations including Russell Athletic, Raytheon, and United Technologies. During that time, he earned the certification of Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) from the Society of Human Resource Management. Roger earned his B.S. in Business Administration from Auburn University.

Contact Information:
3185 Madison Highway
Post Office Box 5126
Valdosta, GA 31603-5126
Phone: (229) 247-6472
Fax: (229) 242-1562
Email: rhorton@landisintl.com

Lisa Ayn Setliff joined Landis in 2005 and has served as Research Assistant, Manager, Director and now Vice President of Regulatory Affairs. She is a results-oriented leader with a M.S. in Biotechnology from Johns Hopkins University. Lisa’s primary strengths lie in a broad range of regulatory science disciplines, leadership of regulatory teams, and strategic scientific and administrative solutions to difficult challenges in the regulatory arena. Lisa advises, supports and assists registrants during all phases of pesticide product development and registration.

Prior to joining Landis, Lisa worked at Cambrex, a biotechnology company in Walkersville, MD, as a Senior Research Assistant. While at Cambrex, Lisa worked closely with the FDA and conducted research which was vital for the development of pharmaceutical agents. Prior to Cambrex, she worked at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in a glaucoma laboratory performing neurobiology research for 10 years and successfully secured millions of dollars of NIH (National Institute of Health) grants for research and published several peer-reviewed journal articles.

In her 16-year tenure at Landis, Lisa has developed successful registration packages for new and existing chemicals for a broad range of clients, reduced risk petitions, risk assessments necessary for EPA registration, in-depth science documentation to achieve reassessment of tolerances and tolerance exemptions, inert ingredient petitions, reregistration packages, OECD dossiers and registration packages for new end use products. Lisa acts as a study monitor for laboratory studies and as a product manager for various chemicals. Lisa has also assisted clients with a partnership with IR-4 in order to achieve registration of minor use crops. Upon client request, Lisa works as a liaison between registrants and their marketing partners.

Some of Lisa’s greatest achievements at Landis have been securing reduced risk status for multiple active ingredients and successfully leading six new active ingredients through the review process. In the registration of these six new active ingredients, Lisa developed excellent working relationships with both the regulatory authorities (EPA, PMRA, APVMA, and CRD) and the clients.

Lisa has an office in North Carolina; therefore, she can easily attend meetings in RTP and at the EPA.

Contact Information:
3185 Madison Highway
Post Office Box 5126
Valdosta, GA 31603-5126
Phone: (229) 247-6472
Fax: (229) 242-1562
Email: lsetliff@landisintl.com

Dr. Hattermann joined Landis International in 1990 and has served as study director and/or project manager or study monitor for field and laboratory studies in residue, environmental fate and metabolism as well as ecotoxicology and other studies. He has served as the company’s radiation safety officer since joining the company and has been involved in the planning, implementation and cost estimation and proposals for complex research and development programs and has provided regulatory support designed to obtain agricultural product registrations for clients following EPA and/or OECD GLP guidelines.

Dr. Hattermann has managed many studies in the major research regions of the U.S. and Canada as well as import tolerance studies mostly in Central and South America and Australia.  He also coordinates cooperative studies and activities between Landis International clients and IR-4.

Dr. Hattermann has been involved with the National Alliance of Independent Crop Consultants (NAICC) since joining that organization in 1998 and served as treasurer on the Executive Board for 4 years followed by President in 2011.  He is currently President of the NAICC foundation The Foundation for Environmental and Agriculture Education (FEAE) and is chairman of the Government Affairs Committee for Agricultural Researchers in the NAICC as well.  He was previously on the board of the Global Alliance of Independent Agricultural Consultants (GAIAC).

Dr. Hattermann obtained B.S. degrees in Environmental Biology and Botany as well as an M.S. degree in Botany from Eastern Illinois University and a Ph.D. in Plant Pathology from the University of Illinois. This was followed by a post-doctoral position at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville prior to joining Landis.

Contact Information:
3185 Madison Highway
Post Office Box 5126
Valdosta, GA 31603-5126
Phone: (229) 247-6472
Fax: (229) 242-1562
Email: dhattermann@landisintl.com

Dr. Hummel is a Director of Research at Landis International. He has approximately 30 years of experience in agricultural research. Dr. Hummel has designed, managed and carried out investigations in field, vegetable and orchard crops, including RAC, PC, terrestrial field dissipation, aquatic dissipation, dislodgeable foliar residue, pollinator ecotoxicology and food handling establishment studies. He also has considerable experience in crop maintenance, sampling, pest scouting and pesticide application. As part of the registrations team at Landis, Rob manages ecotoxicology studies, writes ecotoxicology study summaries and writes aggregate ecotoxicology summaries for submission to regulatory authorities.

Dr. Hummel earned his M.S. (1995) and Ph.D. (1999) degrees in entomology from North Carolina State University and received his B.S. (1992) in biology from the University of Tampa.

Contact Information:
3185 Madison Highway
Post Office Box 5126
Valdosta, GA 31603-5126
Phone: (229) 247-6472
Fax: (229) 242-1562
Email: rhummel@landisintl.com

Dr. Lee is a senior research and development scientist at Landis International, Inc. She has 18 years of research experience in biochemistry and molecular biology. She joined Landis International in October 2009 and works closely with both regulatory and field research staff.

Dr. Lee has experience in data gap analysis, preparation of study profiles (Tier II summaries), study protocol and field notebook reviews, data preparation of draft final reports on field studies, making field notebook summary checklist for quality assurance, and data preparation and review of analytical reports. Furthermore, she has also assisted with field studies and has operator as a linguistic liaison for Korean to English translations of pesticide residue studies. She has experience in preparing submission documents including revision of pesticide labels and Confidential Statement of Formulas, and preparation of reduced risk petitions. She also has experience research in support of regulatory activities such as EPA database document searches, EPA website risk assessment searches, data searches affiliated with the European Union Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals (REACH), data collation for support of end-use-product registration and assisted with state registrations for pesticides & fertilizers.

Myung Soog (Michaella) Lee earned her Ph.D. degree in Genetic Engineering from Kyung Hee University, Suwon, South Korea and received her M.S. and B.S. in biology from Chonnam National University, Kwangju, South Korea. She received postdoctoral training at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Texas (U.S.A.).

Contact Information:
3185 Madison Highway
Post Office Box 5126
Valdosta, GA 31603-5126
Phone: (229) 247-6472
Fax: (229) 242-1562
Email: mlee@landisintl.com

Kim joined Landis International, Inc. full time in 2015 and supports the efforts of all members of the regulatory group in developing strategies for clients to obtain EPA registrations and associated actions. She has experience in writing inert ingredient tolerance petitions, reduced risk petitions, tolerance petitions, exclusive use petitions, research in support of regulatory activities, consulting with EPA to support regulatory activities, formatting data submissions and reports according to EPA PR 2011-3, writing and amending pesticide labels, registration amendments, and writing study profiles (Tier II summaries) and discipline summaries for new active ingredient submissions.

Kim received her B.S. in Biology from Gettysburg College.

Contact Information:
3185 Madison Highway
Post Office Box 5126
Valdosta, GA 31603-5126
Phone: (229) 247-6472
Fax: (229) 242-1562
Email: kpennino@landisintl.com

Timothy A Joseph joined Landis in 2014 as a Senior Project Manager, bringing with him 23 years’ experience in pesticide science. He has a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Connecticut College and a M.S in analytical chemistry from Duke University. He has a proven ability to understand the science in the context of regulatory requirements.

Mr. Joseph has experience in method development and residue analysis for crop, animal, soil, and water samples. He has been a residue chemistry team leader and study director on crop and livestock magnitude of the residue, terrestrial field dissipation and compost residue studies. He was involved in the earliest stages of risk assessment under FQPA, working on and developing early dietary exposure and livestock transfer models. He is an expert on operator, worker, and nondietary residential exposure and risk assessment as well as environmental and ecological risk assessments.

As a representative to the Agricutural Handlers Exposure Task Force, Agricultural Re-entry Task Force, and Outdoor Residential Exposure Task Force, Mr. Joseph has extensive experience with industry working groups. As a task force officer and executive committee member he has had significant opportunity to develop relationships with EPA, PMRA and CDPR. He also has experience with the regulatory environment in Brazil through assistance in the development of occupational risk assessment data and models there.

Since joining Landis International, Mr. Joseph has been involved with multiple CLA committees including the Pollinator Working Group, Endangered Species Issues Management Team, the Environmental Risk Assessment Committee and the EcoTox Working Group. He is managing a number of projects in the registration and reregistration arenas.

Mr. Joseph has an office in North Carolina providing easy access for meetings in RTP and at the EPA.

Contact Information:
3185 Madison Highway
Post Office Box 5126
Valdosta, GA 31603-5126
Phone: (229) 247-6472
Fax: (229) 242-1562
Email: tjoseph@landisintl.com

Lydia joined the Landis International team in 2001 as a research assistant supporting regulatory and research activities. Currently, Lydia serves as the Archivist and Regulatory Specialist, specializing in submission coordination and manages submissions for all clients to all government agencies.

Lydia has experience in new pesticide registrations, electronic submissions (PMRA and EPA), joint submissions (JMPR), field notebook reviews, upkeep of existing pesticide registrations, consulting with clients to support regulatory activities, laboratory, insect and greenhouse trials, state regulatory pesticide registrations and archival of data. She assists in writing tolerance petitions, reduced risk rationales, amending pesticide labels, and report writing.

Lydia received an Associate of Arts degree in Computer Information Systems in 2002, an Associate of Science in Business Administration at Georgia Military College in 2013 and most recently her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology at Valdosta State University.

Contact Information:
3185 Madison Highway
Post Office Box 5126
Valdosta, GA 31603-5126
Phone: (229) 247-6472
Fax: (229) 242-1562
Email: ledwards@landisintl.com

Dave joined the Landis International team in 2007 as a
Research Intern. As a Research/Regulatory Assistant, he is
involved with field and research activities such as data
collection, field study management, field maintenance and plot
construction. Dave also has experience with notebook reviews
and dangerous goods shipping.

Dave earned his Bachelor of Science Degree in Biology from
Valdosta State University.

Contact Information:
3185 Madison Highway
Post Office Box 5126
Valdosta, GA 31603-5126
Phone: (229) 247-6472
Fax: (229) 242-1562
Email: doliver@landisintl.com

Billijean joined the Landis International team in 2009 and currently serves as a financial/archiving assistant supporting both the archive manager with all archive activities and the financial team with administrative support. Her previously held positions in Landis were administrative assistant and assistant to the President.

Billijean has experience supporting all areas within Landis including regulatory and research, administrative, finance and archiving.

Contact Information:
3185 Madison Highway
Post Office Box 5126
Valdosta, GA 31603-5126
Phone: (229) 247-6472
Fax: (229) 242-1562
Email: bsmith@landisintl.com