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This list showcases the top United Kingdom based Director operating in the AgTech space. If you think a Director is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Michaela Peicheva
Director, People and Operations of Wefarm
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About Wefarm: Wefarm is a farmer-to-farmer digital network that enables users to share information via SMS.
Katrin Burt
Executive Director of Grosvenor Food & AgTech
Katrin joined Intersouth Partners in 2004 and works primarily with the technology team. She joined Intersouth from London-based HSBC, one of the largest banking and financial services organizations in the world. At HSBC she moved through a series of roles, starting as a foreign exchange trader in London, managing portfolios of treasury products and equities in Tokyo and eventually moving to a business development role managing the annual operating plan for the bank’s billion-dollar Global Markets Europe Division. Katrin serves on the executive committee and board of directors of the Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED), is a director of the North Carolina Center of Innovation for Nanobiotechnology and lectures at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business. She holds a B.A. from Oxford University, an M.B.A. from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and an M.S. in Microsystems and Nanotechnology from Cranfield University.
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About Grosvenor Food & AgTech, Syngenta Ventures: Grosvenor Food & AgTech is an international investor in food and agriculture businesses.
Anthony James
Executive Director of Grosvenor Food & AgTech
Anthony joined Wheatsheaf from Grosvenor, where he spent five years as Group Corporate Finance Director. Prior to Grosvenor, Anthony was Head of Energy & Natural Resources M&A at KPMG Corporate Finance where he led a wide range of acquisition, disposal and other strategic advisory assignments across the sector. His previous roles have included senior finance and corporate development positions at Philips Electronics, both in the Netherlands and China
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About Grosvenor Food & AgTech: Grosvenor Food & AgTech is an international investor in food and agriculture businesses.
John Matcham
Founder – International Business Development Director of Greengage Lighting
John Matcham is the Technical Director and Product Development at Light Science Technologies. Science and Food Technology Development
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About Greengage Lighting, Light Science Technologies: Agri-Tech company providing LED lighting induction systems.
Berwyn Clarke
Non Executive Director of PBD Biotech
Berwyn is an experienced senior manager in the pharmaceutical and diagnostics industry. In 2005 he founded a new diagnostics company in the UK, Lab21 Limited, prior to establishing network of diagnostics industry interests in 2013. He is currently Chairman of NALIA Systems Ltd and PBD Biotech Ltd and non-executive director at Protein Logic. He is currently also Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Cardiff University and is a senior advisor to the Welsh Government Life Sciences sector.
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About Glyconics, PBD Biotech: PBD Biotech specialises in novel phage-based diagnostics for the veterinary, agriculture and human health sectors
Ben Swift
Director of Research and Development of PBD Biotech
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About PBD Biotech: PBD Biotech specialises in novel phage-based diagnostics for the veterinary, agriculture and human health sectors
Apostolos Papadopoulos
Managing Director of Crop Intellect
Dr. Apostolos Papadopoulos founded Crop Intellect in November 2011, since which he has been serving as its managing director.
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About Crop Intellect: Crop Intellect operates a research and development company that develops agricultural technologies that improves crop productivity.
Dan Robinson
Managing Director of Eurofins Agro UK
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About Eurofins Agro UK: Eurofins Agro UK provides precision analytics and unique insight to help farmers and growers become efficient and sustainable.
Oliver Hilbourne
Founder and Director of Outfield
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About Outfield: Bringing the future to fruit farming
James Mcdougall
Commercial Director of Outfield
Jim McDougall joined Outfield Technologies as Commercial Director in 2016.
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About Outfield: Bringing the future to fruit farming
Charles Veys
Managing Director of FOTENIX
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About FOTENIX: Fotenix is a developer of crop analysis tools designed to increase efficiency in the agri-food industry.
Gareth Cave
Director of Pharm2Farm Ltd.
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About Pharm2Farm Ltd.: Pharm2Farm Ltd. produce and sell these products through an exclusive licence to this technology from NTU.
Gareth Cave
Director of Pharm2Farm Ltd.
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About Pharm2Farm Ltd.: Pharm2Farm Ltd. produce and sell these products through an exclusive licence to this technology from NTU.
