About Jerry Mix

“We have to make sure we remain flexible enough to adapt to whatever changes nature and government throw at us. I want us to be the best pest management company......

The years 2012 and 2013 were significant ones for Laura Simpson, owner of Dugas Pest Control based in Baton Rouge, La. After climbing the steps that lead her up the......

Describe your duties for B&G Equipment Co. There’s no other place, company or location I’d rather be than B&G. I’m on a dream team of smart, technical people. I have......

Tell us about your new organization: When BASF consolidated its Specialty Products Division in Raleigh, N.C., in January 2013, my wife and I agreed we didn’t want to relocate from......

Jan. 8, 1961, is a date Lonnie Alonso and his family won’t soon forget. That was the day that he and his family boarded two flights in Havana and flew......

Were you fearful of pests as a child? No. My father raised bees, and I had squirrels as pets. When and why did you first fall for the business? In......

For more than 80 years, Bowco Laboratories in Woodbridge, N.J., has been serving customers in the pest management industry. Frederick Bowers, who founded the company in 1932 developing chemicals for......

As a child, were you fascinated by or fearful of pests? I was fascinated by all kinds of insects. I spent countless hours exploring the wooded field that ran the......

How did you turn your Purdue University degree in wildlife into your position as director of technical services for Rollins? People tend to forget pest management is more than just insect......

How did you get into the pest management industry? In January 1974, I needed a job, any job; but by the end of my first week with Orkin in Atlanta,......