
A beach encounter led a former packaging executive to a Yellowstone microbe, an old Chicago stockyard and a larger question: how much food can we make with much less?
Harrison Yoon is the CEO of Kula Bio, a Massachusetts agbiotech company turning supercharged nitrogen-fixing microbes into a low-emission alternative to synthetic fertilizer. A chemical engineer by training with a Cornell postdoc and more than 25 years across cell culture, microbial fermentation and bioprocess engineering, he joined Kula Bio in 2020 as President and COO and stepped up to CEO in November 2025 as the company closed its Series A-1 round and launched shelf-stable products into farmers' fields.