InterGrain is responsible to a Board:

  • Mr Dale Baker - chairman
  • Mr Peter Wells
  • Mr Ross Fellowes
  • Mr Sean Gardner (Observer)

 

 

Dale Baker has been a grain grower in Western Australia's South East for more than 40 years. He has had a long and close association with grains research and development, starting with the Kondinin Group and 11 years as a GRDC panel member, with five years as Western Panel Chairman. Dale has also been a Director of the CRC for Weed Management Systems and Chairman of the Australian Government's Managing Climate Variability Program. He has also spent time in the US, Canada, Argentina and South Africa studying their production systems. His current roles include Chairman of Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics and member of the University of Western Australia (UWA) Albany Foundation. Dale is also a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

 

 

 

 

Peter Wells was appointed to the Board in 2007. He has a strong background in financial management, business planning and governance. Peter has his own consultancy company which provides independent business consultancy services in the field of agribusiness, residential housing and co-operatives. Peter worked for the Grain Pool of Western Australia and Co-operative Bulk handling Ltd in senior executive roles for a number of years. Peter is the immediate past chairman of the Agricultural Produce Commission and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Ross Fellowes is an independent AgriBusiness consultant specialising in enterprise strategic analysis and planning; R&D strategy and organisational structure; business models and business plans. Ross also acts as a business consultant to CSIRO/GRDC for the 'Crop Biofactories' project which utilises molecular genetics and enzymology to engineer novel fatty-acid compositions in oilseed crops. Ross has undertaken a number of highly acclaimed fundamental reviews of the grains industry for the GRDC. Prior to his consultancy business, he held management positions with Monsanto in Australia and US,  and with a DuPont USA subsidiary operating in agrochemical production and sales.

 

 

 

 

Sean Gardner is Monsanto’s Global Wheat Lead – in charge of the global wheat commercial strategy and the US WestBred wheat seed business. Sean’s previous roles in Monsanto have included Global Chemistry Lead (with responsibility for the Roundup business), Canola Lead and Regional Lead for Canada, Sales Team Lead for Western Kansas and E Colorado, Roundup Product Director for Europe-Africa in Brussels, Country Lead Spain and Portugal and Area Lead for the Mediterranean based in Madrid, Spain. Sean joined Monsanto as part of the acquisition of the PBI Cambridge wheat seed business from Unilever in 1998 where he was Cereal Seed Business Lead.