Paimun Amini

Sr. Director of Venture Investments, LEAPS

2019 - Current

Leaps by Bayer invests in paradigm-shifting advances in the life sciences, digital technologies, and business models – breakthroughs that could change the world for the better. Stage agnostic, Leaps invests between Seed - Series C and will incubate new innovative companies to transform agriculture.

Board Member

2022

Board Member

2021

Board Member

2021

Board Member

2021

Board Member

2020

Board Member

2019

Director of Digital Partnerships & Innovation

2018 - 2020

Lead development and execution of a broad digital partnership strategy that accelerates Bayer's digital transformation and fuels innovation for modern agriculture. Work collaboratively to identify high-value innovation needs, including both emerging technologies and new business models...match those needs with innovative partners, orchestrate proof-of-concepts to understand and evaluate the true potential of the innovation, and help integrate partner innovation into our platform and investment portfolio.

Director of Digital Partnerships & Strategy

2018 - 2018

Lead development and execution of a broad digital partnership strategy that accelerates Monsanto's digital transformation and fuels innovation for modern agriculture. Work collaboratively to identify high-value innovation needs, including both emerging technologies and new business models...match those needs with innovative partners, orchestrate proof-of-concepts to understand and evaluate the true potential of the innovation, and help integrate partner innovation into our platform and investment portfolio.

Ag Productivity Digital Lead (Director)

2016 - 2018

Responsible for the development and implementation of the Ag Productivity IT Strategy including software solutions, infrastructure solutions, data and analytics. Serve as a member of the global Ag Productivity R&D and Commercial Leadership Teams as well as a member of the R&D IT Leadership Team to represent all of the IT functions that contribute to the Ag Productivity solutions including biologicals and synthetic chemistry. Collaborate with Chemistry R&D leaders and users to drive R&D process improvement including automation and analytics and provide oversight over the implementation of IT strategy to ensure deliverables that generate business value.

Partner Success Manager (R&D IT)

2015 - 2016

Portfolio Management: Manage the portfolio of R&D IT software and hardware innovations with respect to Monsanto's Biotechnology and Chemistry organizations. Improve Monsanto products speed to market through IT innovation and process management. Customer Relations Management: Ensure high levels of adoption and a user experience with IT solutions. Create a feedback loop for IT products through Net Promoter Score and equivalent customer satisfaction measurement tools.

Product Delivery Manager

2014 - 2015

Lead a Product Delivery Team focused on launching Monsanto's R&D IT software solutions for its Chemistry and Biotech Pipeline. Collaborate with researchers to provide innovative IT solutions that further enable the R&D pipeline. Lead the strategic creation of the new BioAg Alliance Field Testing Pipeline in partnership with externals partners.

Product Support Coordinator

2012 - 2014

Manage the Grower Operations Product Support Team, focused on supporting Monsanto's R&D IT software applications. Train, organize, and develop an international team to deliever a 24/7 support model. Coordinate with Product Delivery and Agile Scrum teams to run regressions and analyze support reduction trends. Develop a new support model for Big Data and Mobile applications. Coordinate the delivery and support of a new universal reference data model. Lead a SWAT team to ensure compatability of all R&D IT software applications with the new data model.

Science Software Application Support Specialist

2011 - 2012

Responsible for deploying and supporting enterprise-level software systems developed by TPS for R&D. Responsibilities include software deployment, training, user adoption, user support, troubleshooting, issue tracking and software documentation. The Support Specialist has liaison responsibilities with each application's software project team.

Strategic & Marketing Director

2014 - 2016

Lead the collaboration of the Board of Directors to create the long-term strategy and growth vision for CTLM. Build the marketing and brand strategy to ensure maximum penetration into the Greater St. Louis market. Conduct client market research and provide prescriptive recommendations for optimized client advertising campaigns. Develop and optimize CTLM's advertising/venue matching methodology and data analytics. Provide key insights into IT and Data strategic opportunities implement best practices.