About LeafTc

Team Profiles

Wendy Clayton
 Data Analysis Manager, LeafTc Ltd

  • Cert.Ed.
  • 11 Years in I.T. - Training, Development and Implementation Manager
  • 7 years in CSR - Social Responsibility Admin Manager
  • 7 years with LeafTc - Specialising in SRTP Data Collation and Analysis
  • Interests - cycling, walking, learning to play blues guitar!

Brenden Lucas
Reviews Manager, LeafTc Ltd

  • HND Business and Finance with HNC Agriculture
  • LRQA IRCA Certified OH&S Management Systems Lead Auditor (OHSAS 18001:2007)
  • LRQA IRCA Certified Environmental Management Systems Lead Auditor (EN ISO 14001:2004)
  • BASIS certified in Conservation Management
  • CIEH Certificate in Risk Assessment - Principles and Practice
  • 15 years in Commercial Horticulture and Cut Flower Industry in East Africa and Europe.
  • Experience in customer audits, pesticide application technology and safety, climate and irrigation control systems, soil and water analysis.
  • 6 years in CSR
  • Interests - Walking, cycling and sailing.

Elaine Cole
Reviews Administrator

  • Extensive background experience in all areas of business administration, including project management, organising events and complex travel for large teams.
  • 3 years based in Colombia, South America, involved in charity work, organising and attending many fundraising events.
  • Interests: Walking, especially in the New Forest, sailing and horse riding

Mark Besley
Senior Reviewer

  • BSc Hons Agriculture Seale Hayne College Plymouth University
  • MSc Ag Economics Wye College London University
  • BASIS certified in Conservation Management
  • LRQA IRCA Certified OH&S Management Systems Auditor (OHSAS 18001:2007)
  • Worked in Africa, China; Brazil (beef ranching, sugar cane, tobacco and citrus fruit)
  • Own a mixed business in the UK consisting of a 340 acre farm, farm shop and office development.
  • Converted 90 hectares of grassland to an organic system in 2001 - farming beef cattle (suckler herd and finishers) and sheep.
  • 6 years in CSR
  • Interests - agricultural methods and economies world wide, sport and the UK countryside.

Mark Pybus
LeafTc Reviews Contractor

  • BSc(Hons) in Agriculture and Food Science, specialising in Agronomy, Animal Production and Business management.
  • BASIS certified in Conservation Management
  • Manages a 500 acre, mainly arable, family farm in Yorkshire.
  • FACTS and BASIS trained
  • 6 years in CSR
  • Married with children

Chris Wright
LeafTc Reviews Contractor

  • Farmers son from Lincolnshire, East Midlands, UK.
  • Graduated in 1990 from Bristol Polytechnic with a BSc (Hons) in Applied Biological Sciences.
  • BASIS certified in Conservation Management
  • Post-graduate overseas experience living and working in New Zealand followed by practical experience on farm in the UK. Since 1997, has been working as a professionally registered Independent Agronomist, advising on all aspects of good agronomic practice, including IPM, conservation management and soil and water conservation.
  • 6 years in CSR
  • Interests: Reading and sports (tennis) when time allows!

Harry Brown
LeafTc Reviews Contractor

  • Originally a farm manager; latterly in my own farming business, now cropping over 400 Ha of combinable and root crops.
  • HND in agriculture at Writtle college plus BASIS, FACTS, NVQ level 4 in Business Management, and ISO 9002 Farm Assurance.
  • BASIS certified in Conservation Management
  • 5 years as a crop assurance verifier on farms in East Anglia
  • 6 years in CSR
  • Interests: Walking, Cycling, and Shooting, when time allows!

Tim Roberts
LeafTc Reviews Contractor

  • B Sc. (Hons.) Environmental Science
  • Manage family farm; arable land, mainly wheat and barley, plus a horse enterprise and business units.
  • BASIS certified in Conservation Management
  • Conservation scheme on some of the land, hedges buffer strips, low input grassland.
  • Married, with children.
  • 6 years in CSR
  • Interests: Shooting, fishing, gardening.

The team have individually worked in the agricultural sector in Australia, Brazil, China, New Zealand, Swaziland, Kenya and Zambia outside of their activities for LeafTc.