November 29/Hayward, Calif./Business Wire -- Aurora Algae announced the appointment of two new executives to help drive commercialization of its algae-based platform for sustainable nutraceutical, pharmaceutical, aquaculture and renewable-energy products. Connie Sandusky joins the company as senior vice president of sales, responsible for developing sales and marketing strategy, while Thomas Willardson will serve as chief financial officer, overseeing Aurora Algae's finance and accounting functions.
"With our demonstration facility in full operation, successfully producing tons of biomass per month, we now need to quickly scale our financial, operations and sales teams to meet the growing demand for algae-based products," said Greg Bafalis, CEO of Aurora Algae. "Tom and Connie are key strategic additions to our executive team as we prepare to break ground on our new commercial production facilities, and intensify our focus on high-value market segments for our algae-based products."