B&C Farming is run by a board of five directors, with Managing Director Tony Bambridge in full day-to-day control. Tony is also Member of the Research and Knowledge Transfer Committee at the Potato Council, an Associate of Royal Agricultural Society, winner of the 2011 British Potato Industry Award and finalist for the 2012 Farmers Weekly Arable Farmer of the Year.

Richard is Chairman of Anglian Pea Growers and for G’s Growers, a Director for Anglia Farmers and a Trustee for the Norfolk Farmers Trust and the Clan Trust. He was Chairman of the NFU Board for Horticulture and Potatoes from 2005-2009, giving him insight into a diverse range of farmer/grower businesses, as well as access to policy makers.

Richard’s farm in Norfolk grows wheat, barley, sugar beet, vining peas, potatoes and field scale salads. He has an HND in Agriculture and was a Nuffield Scholar, studying the growth and marketing of brassicas.

Ed joined G’s in 2007 as Group Technical Director, a role in which he has technical responsibility for the group’s UK and overseas operations. He interfaces directly with all UK retailers and is responsible for ensuring that the group’s strategy is fully aligned with customer requirements in the delivery of leading food safety, quality, innovation, sustainability and ethical standards.

Ed has a degree in agriculture and a PhD in insect pathology, and has worked for the Horticultural Development Council (HDC) and Mack Multiples.

As Head of the BBRO since 2011, Colin increases the competitiveness and productivity of the UK beet sugar industry through research and technology transfer. Colinis an experienced director with a successful track record within the agricultural, research and food sector. His roles have included Managing Director of Agrovista UK, and CEO of The Arable Group where he led the successful integration with NIAB. His career has involved working with stakeholders across the supply chain looking for ways to foster strong, commercially viable partnerships.

Bill Clark has been NIAB’s Technical Director since 2012, following his roles as Director of Broom’s Barn Research Centre, the UK National Sugar Beet Research Centre and the ADAS National Cereal Pathologist.

Bill has extensive experience in plant biology and applied plant science and has a special interest in knowledge transfer. His expertise spans horticultural and arable crops pathology and cereal disease control, and is well known for his knowledge of disease control strategies, fungicide activity, physiological effects of fungicides and fungicide resistance issues.

Dale was appointed in 2010 as Director of the John Innes Centre, an internationally leading centre in plant sciences and microbiology, following six years as the head of the Biology Department at the University of York.

Dale has a PhD in Plant Biophysics and spent five years at Yale University School of Medicine using fungi as model systems for understanding how plants absorb mineral ions.

His has led to insights into the fundamental mechanisms by which plants absorb and distribute inorganic ions. These mechanisms have key roles in the control of crucial crop traits such as nutritional value of foods, seed germination, and how plants cope with toxic elements in the soil.

Dale has authored over 140 scientific papers, many of which have been highly cited and in 2001 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and co-awarded the European Science Prize of the Körber Foundation.

Ian Noble leads the R&D strategy and portfolio for PepsiCo’s Global Snacks Group, and is responsible for creating and delivering the transformation innovation agenda in partnership with internal and external groups around the world.

Ian joined PepsiCo in 2007 from Unilever, where he was latterly the Global Food Service Beverages R&D Director. He joined Unilever on completing his PhD in Biochemical Engineering in 1994 and subsequently worked in Sri Lanka, Japan, China, France, the Netherlands and the UK, in R&D roles from background research to commercial market leadership.

Ian sits on a number of external technical boards, including the Science and Technology Committee at Campden BRi and the Food Sector UK Biosciences KTN, and also works in partnership with world-leading universities in selected fields.

As Director of Technology and Innovation at Hutchinsons, Jeremy works closely with the technical and commercial teams to ensure Hutchinsons is the leading provider of agronomic innovation to UK growers.

Jeremy has considerable experience in developing and marketing new agricultural technology and in bringing research and innovations to the market. He has held a number of senior positions in the industry, including being responsible for the Agronomy Advice and AgroSupplies business for Invivo, the umbrella business for the majority of the Agricultural Co-Ops in France.

Richard was originally a manufacturing systems engineer, before moving into supply chains and sustainability, Richard is in charge of European Environmental Strategy Manager at Kellogg’s.

William is Chairman of Nemadi Advisors Ltd., which specialises in earlier stage investment in existing businesses. As CEO he led the development and subsequent sale of both The New Covent Garden Soup Company and Green & Black’s.

Amongst other companies, he is director of Samworth Brothers, Notcutts Ltd and Keystone Investment Trust plc. He is actively involved in family farming businesses in East Anglia and works and campaigns on a wide range of issues connected with food and the countryside.

Calum studied agriculture at Aberdeen University. He then joined ADAS as a technical adviser covering the Suffolk Breckland in the 80’s as well as working for Andersons Farm Business Consultants. He returned to Scotland in 1990, working for both Scottish Agricultural College as a technical and farm business adviser before joining Bank of Scotland as national agricultural specialist in 1995.

In 2001 he transferred back to East Anglia with the Bank, becoming regional Director for NFU Mutual Finance in 2006. He  joined Innovate UK in 2010 and has been actively involved in a number of key initiatives such as “Feeding the Future – Innovation requirements for primary food production in the UK to 2030” and as a member of the working group that developed the “UK Strategy for Agricultural Technologies” launched in 2013.

Julius combines his role of managing director of Greens with a number of non-executive directorships at Management Development Services, G’s Growers and other farming companies. As the UK subsidiary of Spearhead International, Greens farm across 6,000ha. Contract farming arrangements involving cereal and sugar beet cropping are an integral part of the business, built on long term relationships with farmers.

Belinda has led the development and growth of Agri-Tech East from its conception and brings tremendous experience of science and its translation into business opportunities. Originally trained as a plant scientist, Belinda is a Fellow of the Society of Biology and a Chartered Biologist.

Belinda has held senior positions in a number of innovation driven organisations including the role of Lead Technologist for biosciences at Innovate UK (formerly the Technology Strategy Board). She is a council member for the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and a trustee of the Royal Norfolk Agricultural Association.

Her first degree was in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge and her PhD was awarded from the John Innes Centre through the University of East Anglia.