Dr Christopher G J Richards
(Chief Executive Officer)
Date of Appointment: August 2012
Dr. Christopher Richards joined the Company as Non-executive Chairman in August 2012. He became Executive Chairman in April 2015 then Interim Chief Executive Officer in November 2018.
Chris spent 20 years at Syngenta and its predecessor companies in various strategic management positions in South America, Europe and Asia. He then served as CEO of Arysta LifeScience from 2004 until 2010, leading Arysta LifeScience’s transformation into a global agrochemical company with sales above $1.6 billion. He was then Chairman of Arysta LifeScience until 2015. He serves on the Board of Directors of Origin Enterprises plc, a service provider to farmers for food production solutions, and is Chairman of Nanoco Group plc, a nano-materials technology company carrying out research, development and commercialisation of products based on heavy-metal free quantum dots. Chris farms in Devon, UK.