Geoff Bock

Bio

Geoff Bock joined North Carolina State University in 2016 as the first employee of the N.C. Plant Sciences Initiative, a major interdisciplinary team science endeavor to address the grand challenges of agriculture and establish North Carolina as the world leader in plant sciences research and innovation.

As director of operations, Geoff oversees all facility and administrative operations for the N.C. PSI and NC State’s  state-of-the-art Plant Sciences Building. Before coming back to NC State, where he earned two master’s degrees, he served as the director of marketing and business development at The Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences and was co-managing director of The Hamner’s Biosciences Accelerator, an incubator for small life sciences companies.

Geoff has over 20 years of experience working in various roles across academia, industry and the nonprofit sector in the agriculture, biotech, and pharma domains in both the Washington, D.C., area and the Research Triangle, N.C.

He holds a master’s degree in microbial biotechnology (MMB) and a master’s in business administration (MBA) from NC State, as well as a bachelor’s degree in biological sciences from the University of Maryland.