Blending operational excellence with board-level insight, environmental strategy, and impact leadership.
A strategic agribusiness and operational leader with over two decades of experience driving sustainable growth, organisational transformation, and stakeholder engagement across farming, agri-tech, business consultancy, and environmental land use. His career blends hands-on farm management with strategic business innovation, backed by a Cranfield MBA, which marks a pivotal evolution in his professional journey toward wider systems leadership and impact-driven roles.
With a foundation rooted in commercial agriculture, he has successfully operated across sectors including arable, livestock and vegetable production, irrigation consultancy, sustainability consulting, and rural strategy. He has led high-performing teams, shaped long-term land strategies, and delivered enterprise-level performance improvements. His capabilities include full P&L oversight, diversification strategy, supply chain optimisation, technical sales, board-level governance, and policy interpretation. His sectoral reach spans the UK, Europe, and Southern Africa, and he is fluent in both English and Afrikaans.
His career highlights include transforming a farming enterprise through strategic diversification and environmental alignment. He scaled a new irrigation division, achieving 20% annual growth and strengthening UK-EU supplier networks. He also serves as a board director for a UK-registered charity, where he leads long-term financial planning and accountability processes.
His leadership style is grounded, pragmatic, and values-led, built on principles of honesty, independence, contentment, self-development, and duty. Colleagues value his calm judgement, operational clarity, and team-first approach. He fosters collaborative cultures, combining strategic thinking with on-the-ground credibility. He applies a coaching mindset to develop people and align them to shared objectives.
Now completing his MBA at Cranfield School of Management, he is expanding his expertise in sustainability, innovation, financial strategy, and consulting. He is positioning for broader roles at the intersection of land use, food systems, and environmental transformation, whether in public-private partnerships, natural capital investment, or systems advisory.
What he brings is a rare perspective: operationally astute, commercially tested, and globally aware, yet deeply connected to place, purpose, and impact. He offers strategic insight for audiences shaping the future of sustainable enterprises with purpose-driven leadership.
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