Warren Banner, Director, Varietal Manufacturing
Banner joined ArborGen in July 2008. He came to ArborGen with extensive experience in vegetative tissue culture production, scale up of production systems and building large scale supply chains to serve broad market demand. Banner held previous positions as director of operations for Northwest Horticulture LLC in Mabton, Wash., and general manager and president of Ball FloraPlant in West Chicago, Ill., where he built the company from a start up division to become an industry leading provider of vegetative ornamental plants.

Banner holds an M.S. in plant physiology and a B.S. in botany from the University of Tennessee.