Jack Facente

Jack Facente has been married to his wife Sally for 49 years; they have 2 children and 6 grandchildren. Jack grew up in Hialeah, Florida where he became interested in snakes at age 7. In 1966, he started working at the Miami Serpentarium on weekends and full time in 1967. He kept and extracted venom from his first King Cobra in 1967. A serious snake bite in 1967 sparked his interest in Toxinology.

He moved to Saint Cloud, Florida in 1972 to build Reptile World Serpentarium (Biotoxins, Inc.) with George VanHorn. Jack remained Vice President of Biotoxins until 1996. He founded Agritoxins Venom Lab in 2009 to specifically produce 100 grams of Eastern Coral Snake venom to be used in the manufacturing of a new North American Coral Snake Antivenom.