Team | Vitagri — The People Behind the Framework

The Team

Who is behind Vitagri?

Vitagri draws on a global network of 60+ specialists spanning farming, agronomy, science, medicine, human nutrition, food policy and data science.

Leadership

Rob Ward

CEO & Co-Founder Vitagri.Org. AgTech & FMCG commercial leader with farming background.

David Rose

Chairman & Co-Founder Vitagri.Org, Director at Farmeco Community Care. Nuffield Farming Scholar & Trustee.

Farming & Regenerative Practice

Dan Smith

Agroecological farmer and consultant. Nuffield Scholarship.

Doug Wanstall

Scaling regenerative agriculture & restorative systems to drive land use to Net Zero and beyond, reverse climate change and biodiversity loss.

David Miller

Regenerative Ag consultation for Horizon Agriculture.

Kirsty Naismith

Agriculture with Crop Science (BSc Hons). SSFF Future Farmer 25/26. Regenerative Farming and Food systems.

Science & Research

Barbara Bray

Food Safety & Nutrition Strategy Consultant. Supporting food businesses and boards with compliance, public health strategy & science.

Henny Lowth

Senior Knowledge Transfer Manager (Cereals & Oilseeds)/PhD Student.

Alina Warren-Walker

PhD. Nuffield 2025 Scholar. Sustainable and innovative human, food and agri research. Spray Drying.

Medicine & Human Health

Dr Tom Pearson NSch

Farmer at Manor Farm Caxton. Medical Doctor (GP with public health and food systems interest) Nuffield Farming Scholarship.

Dr Hannah Fraser NSch

Medical doctor, organic farmer. Interested in the role our lifestyle, particularly our diet, plays in health and disease. Nuffield Scholar.

Dr Johnny Wake DL FRASE ARAgS

Doctor turned land manager and rural entrepreneur, Johnny Wake DL, ARAgS, FRASE, BA Hons (1st class), MBBS.

Industry & Advisory

Diana Spellman

Founder & Managing Director of PARTNERS IN PURCHASING Ltd, the premier procurement agency in hospitality in the financial and leisure sector.

Bill Young

Innovator leader, advisor & consultant in Agribusiness. Specialising in Sustainable Regenerative Agriculture, Assurance & the Rural Charter.

Izak Van Heerden

AHDB AgriLeader | Founding Board Member ~Unstoppable World | AgriLeadership for tomorrow's world. Nuffield Scholar.

Wallace Currie

Knowledge Exchange Manager at UK Agri-Tech/Podcaster and Content Creator at Rural2Kitchen/SAYFC/ERYP Board Trustee/2024 Nuffield Scholar.