Dr. John Zheng is the Chief Science Officer at Indiana Crop Improvement Association (ICIA) and an adjunct professor at Purdue University. In addition to providing overall scientific strategy for ICIA, he is also an Exemplar Global certified lead auditor for ISO9001-2015 and ISO/IEC17025-2017. He serves as the Management Representative for ICIA Quality Management System (QMS). He works with ICIA member companies to design QMS and identity preservation (IP) programs, and routinely performs customer ISO and IP audits, including USIP initial qualification audits through SSGA. Prior to ICIA, John spent 20 years with Pioneer/DuPont, Dow AgroSciences and Corteva, serving in both technical and leadership roles. He holds 23 patents and co-authored 8 peer-reviewed publications.