Prior to joining Innovate UK Business Connect, I spent eight years working with the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB), primarily in the Horticulture team, but more recently across the crop sectors working in the Crop Protection and IPM team.

I hold a BSc in Applied Biology and am a plant pathologist by training, having worked for 15 years in a research organisation doing commercial and privately funded research on horticultural crops.

As a Knowledge Transfer Manager, I currently work with colleagues across the AgriFood sector to help deliver solutions to industry challenges.