Ian Brown is making a “farmer to pharma” journey. Ian started as a third-generation tenant farmer - for 25 years at www.leemoor.net but
‘Innovation and Futuring’ has been at the centre of Ian’s 36-year business career – longer if you count the school tuck shop he founded! Firsts include a farm carbon audit 30 years ago and being very early into, mobile phones, integrated farm management, broadband, rural business parks, wood fired district heating, Short Rotation Coppice, photovoltaics and now biopolymers to replace oil based persistent plastic via an Innovate UK smart grant. www.chestnut.bio has a huge opportunity to encapsulate not just farm nutrients but pills for the pharmaceutical industry. Ian has an HND in Agriculture and Masters in Entrepreneurship – and a lot of life lessons.