Experience

Better Cotton Initiative

• Director, Special Projects

  • Mar 2020 - Present



Cotton Expert House Africa

• Managing Director

  • Oct 2018 - Feb 2020

  Leading a private sector-driven, non-profit organisation to support sustainability in the African cotton sector. Leading a private sector-driven, non-profit organisation to support sustainability in the African cotton sector.

• Head of Partnerships

  • Jun 2013 - Sep 2018

  Leading BCI's work on National Embedding and scaling-up of the organisation's Global Supply Programmes via direct-country implementation, and through collaboration with a broad international network of Strategic and Implementing Partners working with smallholder, medium-scale and large farms. Leading BCI's work on National Embedding and scaling-up of the organisation's Global Supply Programmes via direct-country implementation, and through collaboration with a broad international network of Strategic and Implementing Partners working with smallholder, medium-scale and large farms.



Delta S.R.L.

• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founding Partner

  • Jun 2007 - May 2013

  Development of a primary-processing facility for timber within one of the largest sustainable agro-forestry enterprises in Northern Argentina.Expansion of the market for timber products utilizing sustainable timber species, thus contributing to a reduction in the dependency upon limited volumes of endangered native species. Development of a primary-processing facility for timber within one of the largest sustainable agro-forestry enterprises in Northern Argentina.Expansion of the market for timber products utilizing sustainable timber species, thus contributing to a reduction in the dependency upon limited volumes of endangered native species.



Great Lakes Cotton Company

• Managing Director

  • Aug 1997 - Nov 2006

  Overall responsibility for company operations in Malawi, Zambia and Uganda.Operation of a national farmer support programme providing seed, other inputs and agricultural extension services in Malawi and Zambia.Cotton buying, ginning and export operations in Malawi and Zambia.Overall responsibility for the sourcing of cotton from Eastern and Southern Africa for onward sales into the Far East, India, Europe, China, and within the African region.Development of a National cotton-crop development program (Public/Private sector initiative), which led to the formation of the Cotton Development Association of Malawi.Design and implementation of a project to support smallholder farmers in Malawi, funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID) Business Linkages Challenge Fund (BLCF), utilising improved seed varieties and a comprehensive seed-treatment program.Design and implementation of a project to enhance smallholder farmer extension services in Malawi, funded by the USAID Regional Agricultural Trade Expansion Support (RATES) program.Public/Private sector consultation work with the Ministries of Agriculture & Food Security, Trade & Private-Sector Development, Economic Planning & Development.Representative in the Cotton Development Organization (CDO) of Uganda.