A well-known and widely respected Senior Manager and CEO within the agricultural industry with over 30 years plus experience with an outstanding record of business getting and delivery through his own efforts and leadership skills. Every business he has been involved with has expanded rapidly and grown, often when others are floundering. A highly commercial, hardworking strategic thinker with an enviable talent for spotting investment and profit potential and seeing them through to the benefit of the balance sheet. These include start up businesses and under performing divisions within established businesses as well as commercial acquisitions.
He has experience of working within many different areas of the industry and leads from the front with a great record for innovation of hitting and beating onerous delivery and sales targets often in difficult times. His area of expertise includes not only the arable and all feed sectors but also supply chain assurance, certification from field to fork and in the charitable sector where his fundraising and leadership skills came to the fore with spectacular results.
As an astute marketeer he uses social media as well as more established methods to raise profiles and increase awareness to get traction and positive results in the form of income generation. He is also not afraid to challenge the norm and try different methods to get results.
Known as a go getter and achiever he has one of the best networks within the sector and is a familiar face at key events and very at home with senior players within the industry as well as important stakeholders, trade bodies, senior civil servants and politicians. He is an active Nuffield scholar as well as in The Farmers Club. He is a liveryman and committee member at The Worshipful Company of Farmers and uses these mediums to increase his network and gain from the commercial opportunities that open up as a result. Outside work he puts back into sport and education at Harper Adams University and is seen as a champion of youth in giving young people responsibility, boosting confidence to advantage them in later life.
As a leader he is driven by his commercial acumen and drives from the front using existing staff, recruiting well to build good teams around him who buy into his principals. He favours incentives and bonuses as rewards for success but above all the growth he achieves always leads to business success.
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