Van Wert, Ohio, USA
January 3, 2013

Advanced Biological Marketing is pleased to announce the recent hiring of Don Botkin as its National Sales Manager. In his new role, Botkin will be responsible for all ABM sales operations in the U.S., including the company’s crop production, institutional sanitation, and environmental waste management biological product lines.

“Don brings a wealth of sales management experience, skills, and talents that we need to help propel ABM into the future,” said ABM CEO Dan Custis. “He has great communication and interactional skills, and both our sales force and customers will find him to be very responsive to their needs.”

Botkin brings an impressive progression of successful sales management experience to ABM. Most recently he was based in Raleigh, N.C. as Business Manager—Insecticides for Bayer CropScience. Prior experience with Bayer included a stint as a Territorial Sales Manager for that company’s Environmental Science Group, where he was responsible for pesticide, fungicide and herbicide sales in Ohio and Michigan. Before Bayer, Botkin had extensive experience in sales management with a wide range of lawn care, seed, and fertilizer products. Botkin is a graduate of West Chester University, West Chester, Pa., where he majored in communications with a minor in marketing.

Botkin began his new position on October 15. He said he was attracted to ABM by the company’s people, its reputation for innovation, production, and marketing of high-quality specialty biological products, and its growth potential.

“The biological products market in U.S. agriculture has a tremendous upside of growth opportunities, and that really appealed to me,” said Botkin. “I want to do whatever I can to help make our field representatives’ jobs easier and help them to be more productive as they work with our customers. That challenge is why I get up every morning.”

Botkin will relocate from Raleigh to Ohio in January.

Advanced Biological Marketing identifies, develops, and markets specialty biological products for agricultural and agricultural-related industries. ABM emphasizes education, innovative research and strong marketing expertise in these emerging markets. The company is located in Van Wert, Ohio and has distributors across the U.S. and internationally.

Website: http://www.abm1st.com

Published: January 3, 2013