With wide experience in senior roles in agriculture and plant sciences, Bob is well versed in agribusiness strategy development and implementation internationally both in start-ups and in a world leading agribusiness. He has a passion for development and commercialization of innovation in plant sciences.His current position, as Regulatory and Stewardship Lead of Syngenta Australasia, sees him lead initiatives to deliver a whole of life-cycle approach to stewardship and sustainability, promoting ethical and responsible practices in crop protection.In earlier roles, Bob lead fast growing crop seed businesses in North East Asia and across APAC delivering extended periods of business development, profitable growth and commercialization of new technologies. Other roles within the sector saw Bob based in North Carolina as a Member of the Global Leadership Team for Syngenta Vegetables. In this role, Bob piloted new business models and technologies in north and south America, implementing a new global strategy for bringing seed and crop protection together into a single grower-focused business.Bob held Australian and international executive positions in a plant biotech start-up before joining Syngenta. He began his career as a plant breeder with CSR Ltd in Queensland before moving to R&D management in the sugar industry. Bob comes from a wheat-farming background in North Western NSW. Bob is a Non-Executive Director of the Cooperative Research Centre for Future Food Systems and Chair of its Research and Commercialization Committee. Bob has earlier Director experience in agribusinesses in start-up companies as CEO and Director of ForBio Asia Pty Ltd and ForBio Robotics Pty Ltd and in Asia as President and Director of Seoul Seeds Korea. Such experience has provided Bob with a broad and deep understanding of what it takes to be a Director in the agriculture sector, especially in start-up businesses and those that focus on plant technologies.