Noah Wilson-Rich, Ph.D. (1982 - present) was born in Manhattan, NY. He grew up in Fairfield, CT, and moved to Boston for college in 2000 to attend Northeastern University, where he earned a B.S. in biology in 2005. He founded The Best Bees Company while in graduate school at Tufts University, as a means to raise funding for his research to improve honey bee health. In 2009, Noah won the Dow Chemical Company's Student Sustainability Innovation Challenge. In 2010, Noah competed in the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Elevator Pitch Competition for Best Bees, and won 1st place for the Life Sciences and runner up overall. In 2012, Noah gave a Ted talk about urban beekeeping. In 2014, Noah published his first book, "The Bee: A Natural History" through Ivy Press, Ltd. (UK) and Princeton University Press (US).