Russell has worked in farming most of his life, since aged 11 in fact, where he launched his career on a pig farm, helping out at weekends. Russell has an agricultural degree from Harper Adams and since then he’s worked on farms in one capacity or another, from a harvest supervisor post with G’s, a farm manager at Coldham Estate in Cambridgeshire, to an agronomist at Frontier. A self-confessed geek, Russell relished the opportunity to become a BASIS qualified agronomist and won ‘reserve champion’ for the Barry Orme Shield award – a big deal in agronomy. He still partakes in training sprayer operators, farmers and agronomists in his spare time. His role at Terravesta is dedicated to helping growers to improve crop performance.

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Since planting Miscanthus at home in 2006 and realising its excellent potential as a stable farm enterprise on difficult land, William has made it his mission to bring order and transparency to Miscanthus supply.

William established Terravesta Ltd in 2012 to deliver a secure and reliable national contract-based supply chain and develop the market for Miscanthus as the UK's no.1 energy crop.

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Simon is putting Miscanthus on the world stage. His job is to continue to advance the Miscanthus bio-economy by taking new varieties and upscaling them for a plethora of applications including bioenergy, biofuels and biomaterials. He has an impressive track record of establishing new markets and was pivotal in the development, scale up and commercialisation of beetroot juice under the “LoveBeets” brand, which is available in over 9.5 thousand retail outlets across North America today. His career has come full circle and he’s back in the renewable energy sector, having originally done his MBA at the Royal Agricultural University, Cirencester, with a thesis focused on long term buyer-supplier relationships within the UK biomass industry.

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Ben’s role at Terravesta is dedicated to increasing Miscanthus sales to meet growing market demand. His background is rooted in agriculture, although his diverse experience brings a unique skillset to the position. Six years in the Navy in his 20’s has encouraged a resourcefulness and a strong team-player mentality. A stint at Harper Adams studying rural enterprise and land management and managing the Woodhall Spa home farm caravan park diversification means he’s a dynamic out of the box thinker who understands the challenges farmers face.

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Chloe has an impressive track record for someone who graduated with a degree in business management in 2017. Her last post was at Cargill where she looked after the trading and merchandising for UK soybean and rapeseed oil, before this she was active in management roles within various graduate schemes. Chloe is highly organised, ambitious and full of inspired ideas. Her role at Terravesta is dedicated to engaging farmers interested in planting Miscanthus and managing our agricultural marketing and events.

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