iHemp Summit

iHemp Summit & Expo

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.