iHemp Summit

Simon Yarrow

Group Manager at AgriFoodTech, Callaghan Innovations

Simon joined Callaghan Innovation in August 2014, and is responsible for the engagement strategy with the AgriFoodTech Sector and its 700+ Callaghan Innovation clients.

Prior to this, he tripled an export nutritionals business in three years for New Image Group; was CEO of a venture-capital funded start-up in bacterial stabilisation called Encoate; and managed a $25 million dollar biotechnology business unit of agribusiness company LIC.

Simon has also worked for Fonterra in Asia in their FMCG/brands division and in New Zealand for their Speciality Ingredients/Bio-actives Group.