Dr Tony Arioli has been the Director of R&D at Seasol International for 13 years). Tony has a PhD in plant molecular biology from the Australian National University and has achieved numerous scientific publications and patents in the agricultural and seaweed biostimulant fields.

Tony worked in one of the first Cooperative Research Centres in Canberra, and went on to lead academic and industry research programs and alliances in Australia, Europe, and the USA, where he established a new R&D centre in Texas. Tony is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at Deakin University.