Experience

Cultura Connect

• United Kingdom
• Staffing and Recruiting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of Agribusiness Resourcing

  • Jan 2023 - Present

  The Cultura Connect team have extensive knowledge in both the agricultural and recruitment industries, applying this expertise to ensure that the very best candidates are matched with the very best clients. Using our hands on experience from within the industry we are all passionate about ensuring the right people are in the right positions. My experience in the AgTech sector as well as previous experience in agricultural recruitment, will allow me to combine this knowledge and passion to strengthen the Cultura Connect team, teaming up with Hugh Pocock after having worked together previously.



Hectare

• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Commercial Director

  • Sep 2020 - Dec 2022

  Hectare, an agri-tech company powering some of farming’s fastest growing supply chains and marketplaces both in the UK and across the globe. Agriculture is one of the last industries to be enabled by technology - here at Hectare, we’re leading the digital transformation.Responsible for the commercial success of the business with a key focus on • new customer acquisition, to grow our market share• showcasing and delivering our research and technology• cross-selling new products and services to our existing customer base• generating loyalty and customer retention; improved customer lifetime value

• SellMyLivestock & FarmPay Business Development Manager

  • Apr 2018 - Oct 2020

  SellMyLivestock operate the UK’s leading agricultural output marketplace for Livestock and Feed & Bedding. The platform is underpinned by products that enable online trading, such as escrow payments, finance and haulage booking.



JP Trett Ltd

• United Kingdom
• Outsourcing and Offshoring Consulting

• Divisional Manager - Livestock

  • Nov 2015 - Apr 2018

  JP Trett specialises in Agricultural Recruitment, Horticultural Recruitment and Fresh Produce Recruitment. With generations of credibility, confidentiality and success within the Agri-business profession we understand these industries and the complexities of the roles within them. If you are seeking a new exciting career in Agricultural, Horticultural, Rural and Fresh Produce businesses, or you are looking to recruit the cream of the crop, JP Trett aims to succeed in satisfying your needs. From Agronomy Managers to Sales Managers, Farm Directors to Sales Directors we are Agricultural Recruitment.



Dairymaster

• Ireland
• Industrial Machinery Manufacturing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Regional Sales Manager

  • Aug 2015 - Nov 2015

  Dairymaster, a world leader in dairy equipment manufacturing, operates from its head office in Causeway, Co. Kerry, Ireland as well as having operations in the UK and USA. Dairymaster has customers in over 40 countries worldwide. The company was founded in 1968 by Ned Harty. Dairymaster has reached this position in the market because we offer our customers significant performance advantages due to our emphasis on research and development. Dairymaster has a wide innovative product range including milking equipment, automatic scrapers, automatic feeders, milk cooling tanks, heat detection systems.



Ernest Doe Power

• United Kingdom
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Sales Rep

  • Dec 2013 - Aug 2015

  Here I was tasked with visiting farms to sell machinery to them. Covering an area in Norfolk & Suffolk. Selling a wide a varied range of machinery. Working closely with some of the best manufacturers in the world. Ernest Doe Power is a long established family firm with a network of branches in the South and East of England. Managing Director Colin Doe is the fourth generation of the family to have run the business in its 100+ years of trading. The firm supplies an incredible amount of machinery; from garden mowers and chain saws to combine harvesters and construction excavators. Our philosophy is simple to supply the best products and then to support them with the service facilities and expertise to keep them running perfectly.



Cogent Breeding

• United Kingdom
• Ranching

• Breeding Advisor

  • Jan 2009 - Dec 2013

  COGENT OFFERS THE STRONGEST, MOST DIVERSIFIED PORTFOLIO OF BOVINE GENETICS AVAILABLE ON THE UK'S GENETICS MARKET TODAY. Here my role was to visit farms and advise farmers on the best breeding policies for their herds. This was achieved by both years of knowledge working within the industry and with the use of the in house breeding programme. Cogent combine the best of British genetics developed through our own pioneering UK breeding and testing programme with the very best of US and Italian bulls from the market-leading World Wide Sires in the US. Cogent operates the UK's largest bull stud. Based on the commercial requirements of today's dairy farmer, we have successfully developed a breeding programme founded on production, type, and reliability. Cogent was the pioneer of sexed semen technology and continues its work today to improve the process and research and develop new technologies, which will aid the modern farming business. Cogent was founded in 1995. Its origins come from the working farms of His Grace the Duke of Westminster's Eaton Estate in Cheshire. It had become clear that increasing putting more and more animals on a limited amount of agricultural land was no longer sustainable and that UK farming needed a new way to improve productivity and the quality of the national herd. Today the business has come a long way since its farm beginnings and is now one of the UK's leading suppliers of bovine genetics with a growing global reach- currently providing high-quality British product to some 40 countries worldwide



FIELDING COTTAGE LIMITED

• Farm Manager

  • Jan 2009 - Sep 2012

  This is a business set up by my brother, Having researched the benefits of products made from goat’s milk over cow’s milk, he decided to take the plunge and invest in a small herd of goats and the appropriate processing equipment. I helped in the early days of the business to get it up and running. I was heavily involved on a daily basis with milking, processing, marketing and sales. The business, now produces a wide variety of Cheeses along with Milk, Meat, Skin Car products, This is a business set up by my brother, Having researched the benefits of products made from goat’s milk over cow’s milk, he decided to take the plunge and invest in a small herd of goats and the appropriate processing equipment. I helped in the early days of the business to get it up and running. I was heavily involved on a daily basis with milking, processing, marketing and sales. The business, now produces a wide variety of Cheeses along with Milk, Meat, Skin Car products,



Blueriver Steel Buildings

• United Kingdom
• Farming

• Salesman

  • Sep 2008 - Sep 2009

  Blueriver Steel Buildings are a company that sell, cold rolled kit form steel buildings. They were based in Norfolk but covered the whole of the UK. Dealing with Large and Small companies, Farmers and the public. I was tasked with selling steel framed kit form buildings. Ranging in size from 3mx3m to 60mx150m. Blueriver Steel Buildings are a company that sell, cold rolled kit form steel buildings. They were based in Norfolk but covered the whole of the UK. Dealing with Large and Small companies, Farmers and the public. I was tasked with selling steel framed kit form buildings. Ranging in size from 3mx3m to 60mx150m.



Ben Burgess & Co.

• United Kingdom
• Farming
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Sales & Marketing

  • Aug 2007 - Sep 2008

  This was a placement year from my studies at Harper Adams. Whilst here, I was in charge of all the marketing for the Ben Burgess group. Ben Burgess are a large John Deere dealership, at the time they had 4 branches covering Norfolk and North Suffolk. I was also involved in sales support with on farm visits and demonstrations. This was a placement year from my studies at Harper Adams. Whilst here, I was in charge of all the marketing for the Ben Burgess group. Ben Burgess are a large John Deere dealership, at the time they had 4 branches covering Norfolk and North Suffolk. I was also involved in sales support with on farm visits and demonstrations.