Company Biographies
Paul Gaylon, Chief Operating Officer
Pacific Plant Nutrients
Paul is the founder and President of Herbal Products & Development and has been developing nutritional formulas for over 30 years. His website, herbprodarchives.com, is an online store with a wealth of information on every product and its ingredients, including benefits and uses. The website features product profile sheets, health articles, recipes, and more.
Herbal Products & Development’s foundational nutritional products include capsules, powder blends, fluid extracts, skincare, bulk nutrients, food oils, probiotics, and enzymes. Paul habitually researches each raw material from its source to find the best applications and formulates his products based on this learned knowledge. Paul revises his formulas as needed when new information becomes available. He integrates sourcing, production methods, and marketing with his product concepts.
Paul’s strong interests in restorative agriculture and organics make him a natural fit for Pacific Plant Nutrients. His contributions include product formulation, concept development, research (nutritional & agricultural), logistics, and outreach. He is engaging with the regional academic community on projects to test, analyze, and share information on algae & related subjects. Related subjects include nutrient synergy, and soil and plant interactions. Paul also managed the content and some of the layout of the pacificplantnutrients.com website.
Paul is currently focused on setting up and organizing Pacific Plant Nutrients’ operations, working with growers on efficient watering methods and setting up field trials, writing articles on Bionutrient stimulants, making podcasts, speaking at media events on radio and other formats to promote Mineral MAX AG, and coordinating with Ron Arnow in business development and with Davis Cain on production and logistics.
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Paul has assumed many leadership and project coordination roles in local and regional organizations through various levels of participation in events and conferences. He has been a featured speaker at health food stores and at other places of business and a guest on public television, radio shows, and podcasts. Paul is a dedicated advocate for the environmental community and the natural foods and hemp industries.
One of Paul’s major events was directing the Santa Cruz Industrial Hemp Expo in 1998. It was the largest event of its kind in the country at that time with 6,500 people attending. This successful event brought together businesses and individuals on the cutting edge of the ever-expanding hemp market. Out of this event emerged a one-hour video, “Hemp Hemp Hooray — The Growing Industrial Hemp Market.”
Paul has lent a helping hand to the Ecological Farming Association at their EcoFarm conferences. In 2000, Paul organized discussion/speaker panels for their event. He helped coordinate the Gaia Song event on sustainable living and ecological building in 2002. Paul also co-founded Synergy parties in 2002. These were a series of organized and enjoyable evenings featuring non-profit and community organizations where projects and visions were discussed.
In 2012, Paul worked with the Community Alliance of Family Farmers on their fundraiser Spring into Summer. He works with the Santa Cruz Grange which promotes family farms and sustainable agriculture. Paul works locally with Blume Distillation/Whiskey Hill Farms in many roles. These include sourcing plant seeds and seedlings and utilizing fruit pulp and molasses “waste” for organic alcohol production. He has also been focused on the farm’s turmeric crop project.
Paul’s informational website, Unified Community (unifiedcommunity.info) is a directory of knowledge and concepts with 2,500 links in 125 categories. Exploring Botanicals (exploringbotanicals.com), Paul’s other informational website is a worldwide plant catalog showcasing Paul’s plant photos taken locally and worldwide. Paul’s one-page website, paulscommunity.us, provides access to all four of his websites including this one.
Davis Cain, Partner
Pacific Plant Nutrients
Davis Cain is our Operations Manager. He is an Electrician, a Logistics Expert, and a Master Mechanic. He can fix any and all things mechanical.
Ron Arnow, Business Development and Marketing
Pacific Plant Nutrients
Ron Arnow is a visionary marketing and business development leader with a track record of creating and scaling transformative products. He launched a groundbreaking pharmaceutical segment in the global cold remedy market that produced $150 billion in 15 years. He also pioneered a consumer-packed soy-based food product line with four SKUs, playing a key role in popular flavor varieties in the early plant-based nutrition movement. His innovations include Blendavites, a revolutionary liquid vitamin additive that brought convenience and potency to daily supplementation.
Now aligned with Pacific Plant Nutrients, Ron brings decades of experience turning emerging trends into mainstream successes. His expertise lies in connecting science-backed innovation with market strategy—building trusted brands, forming strategic alliances, and accelerating growth. Under his direction in Business Development, and in close collaboration with founder Paul, Pacific Plant Nutrients is positioned to become a market leader in biostimulants and next-generation plant health solutions.
His leadership continues to bridge health, sustainability, and performance. Ron is working with Paul on securing podcasts, trade publications, promotions, contacts with journalists in the industry, and field trials as well as concentrating on USDA field trials. His work will be coordinated by Paul so there is logistical organization on each project.
Jamie Jackson, Plant Manager
Pacific Plant Nutrients
Assists Davis Cain with production and daily operations. He is from a farming community in Oregon and knows the local market.
Dale Hinkens, Founder, Pacific Plant Nutrients
Pacific Plant Nutrients
- CAREER PROFILE
- President & Founder, Pacific Plant Nutrients
- Advanced Algae, Inc., CEO
- Terrafix, Inc., CEO
- American International Remediation Corporation, CEO
- Creative Glassworks International, President
- Education: B.S., MERU University, Switzerland
Mr. Hinkens has founded, built, and operated several businesses. His roles included developing intellectual property and providing creative solutions for market opportunities and revenue generation. Mr. Hinkens’ businesses have all incorporated innovative technologies including laser and water jet cutting systems, robotic motion control cranes, CNC controls, automated air emission and water pollution scrubbing systems, soil remediation, micronization services, and the development of “next-generation” organic plant nutrients products.
Having founded Pacific Plant Nutrients in 2020, Mr. Hinkens incorporated Homogenizers, Powder Mills, Pasteurization Equipment, Mixing Tanks, Steam Generators, Blenders, and Laboratory equipment that “Micronize” a wide array of products. Applications include pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, and medicinal, and can be used for CBD products, food, gummies/candy, cosmetics, lotions, creams, etc. Mr. Hinkens has also worked as an algae fertilizer consultant on U.S. Fish and Game projects to develop algae-saturated soils on a massive scale.
Presently, Mr. Hinkens and his associates have been developing a “SUPER” micronized mineral nutrient blend for plants. Micronization facilitates the absorption of nutrients. The company uses OMRI-rated ingredients to boost the efficacy of the Klamath blue green algae base. Mr. Hinkens feels that this latest venture brings his life’s work together to enhance food production to help feed the planet.
Note: Mr. Hinkens unfortunately passed away in 2024.