Our Team
Meet Our Executive Council
Padraig Hennessy
Chairman
Padraig Hennessy is CEO of a leading Agtech company (Terra NutriTECH). Padraig is passionate about Agtech and promoting farming to be as sustainable as possible.
David Leydon
Company Secretary
David Leydon is ifac’s Head of Food & AgriBusiness. He worked with the Irish Farmers Journal for 11 years most recently as Commercial Director. David has an MSc in Business and IT from DCU and an MBA from Henley Business School in London.
Lloyd Pearson
Treasurer
Lloyd Pearson is the Managing Director of Pearson Milking Technology, a third-generation family company supplying a global network of customers with world leading milking technology.
James Greevy
James is the Director of Product at Herdwatch. James is passionate about driving technology adoption on farm in order to increase productivity and maximise farm profitability.
Ursula Kelly
Ursula is Operation Director with Cormac Tagging,a family-owned business that has supplied high quality animal identification products into Ireland since 2001.
Catherine Lascurettes
Catherine Lascurettes is the chief operations officer of AgTech Ireland. She is an agri-policy consultant working with a variety of clients, and Executive of Nuffield Ireland.