Our Board

Carl Driver

Chairman

  • Biography

    o Carl has been a Camgrain member since 1993 and on the Board since 1995 and most recently appointed Chairman in 2023


    o Farms 2000ha of wheat, malting barley, milling oats, beans and OSR. This involves some owned land, FBT’s, contract farming and a joint venture agreement. The farm utilises a 12m controlled traffic farming system along with zero tillage practices and cover crops in a regenerative system. The business also runs SFI and CS schemes, as well as being in a carbon certificate scheme. 


    o Carl is a BASIS/FACTS professional agronomist and a member of the marketing committee. 



Robbie Dennis 

Vice Chairman

  • Biography

    After training as a solicitor I joined the family farm full-time in 2014. We are based in south-west Suffolk and farm 1000ha comprising owned and contract farmed land. We grow combinable crops and sugar beet. Our farming system utilises rotational cultivations where deemed necessary with direct-drilling being progressively introduced. We have countryside stewardship schemes on all of the land we farm.


    Outside agriculture I enjoy running and cycling (having completed a few triathlons when I can find time to train!)


Simon Willis

Simon Willis

Group CEO *

  • Biography

    o Simon joined Camgrain in 2017 with 25 years’ experience in a variety of Business Management roles, including leadership positions at Kingfisher, Total and most recently before joining Camgrain, with Certas Energy.

    o He is a specialist in ‘Lean’ operations, supply chain management, strategy formation and delivery. He is NEBOSH qualified and has a degree in Business Management.

Steve Atherton

Steven Atherton

Group Finance Director*

  • Biography

    Steve joined Camgrain in May 2023. After becoming ACA qualified at KPMG Steve spend 20 years in Investment Banking in London and Sydney in a variety of senior Finance roles. After stepping back from that space Steve spent three year as CFO at Europe's largest commercial thoroughbred stud farm before joining Camgrain

Jo Robinson

Jo Robinson

Farmer Director

  • Biography

    o Grows wheat, oilseed rape & malting barley near Brackley, Northants. He is a previous Chairman of Arable Crop Storage, now known as Stratford APC (Warwickshire). He is a Director of farmers’ buying group Ouse & Cherwell Trading Co Ltd.

John Jefferies

John Jefferies

Farmer Director

  • Biography

    •  Farms 355 Ha in South West Cambridgeshire, growing wheat, oilseed rape and occasionally peas, beans, spring barley and linseed. Joint owner of an airfield enterprise and two aircraft businesses.
Adam Driver

Adam Driver

Farmer Director

  • Biography

    • Adam farms 2000ha in west Suffolk growing combinable crops in a joint various and various FBT and CFA agreements. A focus on low costs without sacrificing output with soil health at the heart of the system. Adam is a qualified BASIS agronomists and completed the worshipful company of farmers advanced course in agricultural business management in 2018
John Charlesworth

John Charlesworth

Farmer Director

  • Biography

    • We have a family farm near Warwick of about 300ha including land on FBT’s, contract farming and share farming agreements. Ours is a mixed farm with 250 breeding ewes, 200 beef cattle and we grow a variety of combinable crops. We also undertake contract work for neighbours. We store all our grain with Camgrain.
Andrew Maddever

Andrew Maddever

Director

  • Biography

    oCamgrain members from day one. 


    oGrowing milling and group 4 wheat, malting and feed barley, oilseed rape, beans, human consumption peas, and milling oats across 1800 ha of owned, rented and profit sharing agreements, also some stubble to stubble arrangements and stewardship management.


    oMoving towards a regenerative farming system.




Simon Ingle

Simon Ingle

Marketing Director

David Brooks

David Brooks

Independent Non-Executive

Director

  • Biography

    After 20 years in senior roles within the food industry, David has been undertaking a range of non-executive and advisory activities since 2009, initially in consumer goods within the food and beverage sectors, though now primarily in consumer related activity in a broader range of both publicly funded and private organisations. His current portfolio includes Ebuyer (UK) Ltd, The Coal Authority, Seafish and North Hampshire Urgent Care. When not reading extensive board and committee packs, he spends his time keeping up his daily step count, trying to cycle 100kms a week, and being an active club cricketer.



Hugh Wiseman

Hugh Wiseman

President (Honorary)

  • Biography

    o Hugh farms wheat and oilseed rape near Saffron Walden. He has been involved with Camgrain since it was established in 1983 and was Chairman of the Board for 14 years between 1991-2005.

Our Executive Team *

Mark Slater

Mark Slater

Company Secretary
Nicki Arnold

Nicki Arnold

Head of Membership

Nicki Arnold

Nik Blackham

Head of Business Systems

Nicki Arnold

Daniel Parrott

Head of Operations