Founders, Advisers & Contributors
Vitagri draws on a multidisciplinary network spanning agronomy, human nutrition, food policy, farming, medical practice, and data science.
Rob Ward
CEO & Co-Founder Vitagri.Org. AgTech & FMCG commercial leader with farming background.
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David Rose
Chairman & Co-Founder Vitagri.Org, Director at Farmeco Community Care. Nuffield Farming Scholar & Trustee.
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Barbara Bray
Food Safety & Nutrition Strategy Consultant. Supporting food businesses and boards with compliance, public health strategy & science.
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Kirsty Naismith
Agriculture with Crop Science (BSc Hons). SSFF Future Farmer 25/26. Regenerative Farming and Food systems.
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Tom Pearson
Farmer at Manor Farm Caxton. Medical Doctor (GP with public health and food systems interest) Nuffield Farming Scholarship.
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Diana Spellman
Founder & Managing Director of PARTNERS IN PURCHASING Ltd, the premier procurement agency in hospitality in the financial and leisure sector.
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Doug Wanstall
Scaling regenerative agriculture & restorative systems to drive land use to Net Zero and beyond, reverse climate change and biodiversity loss.
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Izak Van Heerden
AHDB AgriLeader | Founding Board Member ~Unstoppable World | AgriLeadership for tomorrow's world. Nuffield Scholar.
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Bill Young
Innovator leader, advisor & consultant in Agribusiness. Specialising in Sustainable Regenerative Agriculture, Assurance & the Rural Charter.
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Alina Warren-Walker
PhD. Nuffield 2025 Scholar. Sustainable and innovative human, food and agri research. Spray Drying.
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Wallace Currie
Knowledge Exchange Manager at UK Agri-Tech/Podcaster and Content Creator at Rural2Kitchen/SAYFC/ERYP Board Trustee/2024 Nuffield Scholar.
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Johnny Wake
Doctor turned land manager and rural entrepreneur, Johnny Wake DL, ARAgS, FRASE, BA Hons (1st class), MBBS.
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Hannah Fraser
Medical doctor, organic farmer. Interested in the role our lifestyle, particularly our diet, plays in health and disease. Nuffield Scholar.
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