Bent Schwartz Agricultural Technologies, Inc. is the product of the confluence of the career paths of both Dr Elizabeth Bent, PhD, and her husband, Seth Schwartz.
Combining Dr. Bent’s knowledge of plant and soil health with Seth’s expertise in drone technologies, the seeds of BSAgTech were planted.
Seth Schwartz
Chief Executive Officer, Co-Founder
Owner of the US consulting company Seth Drones, Seth is certified as a UAV pilot in Canada, the USA, the UK, and the EU. He also has extensive knowledge of hardware integration, prototyping, design, IT services, logistics, and academic curriculum development. With a decade in the UAS industry, he was most recently the Associate Director for Applied Research and Development at the National UAS Training and Certification Center at Sinclair College in Dayton, Ohio. He is an accomplished speaker with ties to many organizations worldwide, including in the USA, the EU, the UK, and Israel. He is currently the President of AUVSI’s Wright Brothers (Ohio) chapter, and plans to start the Canadian branch of AUVSI, beginning in Ontario. He has OEM trainer certifications from Pix4D, SenseFly/AgEagle, Wingtra, Parrot, Elistair, Flyability, Sky-Drones, Sentera, and more.
Elizabeth Bent
Chief Research Officer, Co-Founder
Elizabeth obtained her PhD from the University of British Columbia, and is a former academic scientist and creative thinker with 30 years of laboratory and data analysis experience, acquired from many laboratories located across three different countries. Her area of specialization, environmental molecular microbial ecology, covers soil science, agriculture, plant and soil health, microbiology, microbiome studies, biochemistry, mathematics and statistics, as well as computer science. She is currently training herself to use AI programming tools, for the creation of bespoke software for BSAgTech as well as software applicable to many kinds of data storage, archiving and analysis. She is also interested in helping labs and companies explain their findings or products to the general public, which for academic researchers is often an important part of grant project development.