Innovating Agri

About Us

Our leadership team

A passion for sustainability

Leading the way in Agri-Innovation

The Arvum Group leadership team is responsible for ensuring the long-term success of our Agri-Food businesses by fostering innovation and maintaining our standards of excellence at all levels.

It is also our role to build new relationships and take the group into emerging areas. Being open, honest and hardworking is in our nature; these traits are the pillars which the Arvum Group has been built on, and what we look to inspire in all our businesses.

Leadership Team

Arvum Group

Group CEO

Roy Power

Roy has been CEO of the Arvum Group since 1999. He is the fifth generation of the Power family to lead the business originally established in 1858. His formal training was in accountancy, but it wasn’t long before that was put aside to follow his passion for agriculture. Having gained experience with several multinationals in the area of plant breeding and variety trials, Roy joined the family seed business in the late eighties to set up the Seedtech research department. He took over the helm when his father Declan retired in 1999, and with his knowledge of the brewing and distilling industries was quick to see the value-added opportunity in the co-product supply chain, setting up what is Specialist Nutrition today, in 2001. Roy has served as President of the Irish Seed Trade Association (ISTA) and is currently the Chairman of the Plant Development Office in Ireland which oversees the implementation of plant breeders’ rights. He also chairs the Irish Brewing and Distilling Industry barley research group.

Group Chairman

Richard Davies

Richard joined the Arvum board as a Non-Executive Director in 2014 and became Non-Executive Chairman in 2017. He joined the Arvum Group after a long career in FMCG advertising, including running Saatchi & Saatchi agencies in the UK and Australia and his own agency in the UK.

Richard works as a board-level strategic consultant and non-executive board director for several international, blue-chip Agri-Food and pharmaceutical businesses.

Group Finance Director

Pat Farrell

Pat joined the Arvum Group as Chief Financial Officer in 2009. He holds an honours Bachelor of Commerce degree from the National University of Ireland (UCC) and is a Member and Fellow of Chartered Accountants Ireland.  He has twenty five years’ experience in senior finance and managerial roles across Agri-Business, high volume manufacturing and property sectors.

As well as finance, Pat takes a leading role in the information technology, compliance and legal aspects of the group’s various businesses.

Leadership Team

Our businesses

Specialist Nutrition GM

Jim Buckley

Jim comes from a family farm background in Co. Kildare and joined the Arvum Group in 1998. He achieved an honours Bachelor of Agricultural Science degree in 1985 and for 13 years worked in a leading Agri-Merchant as General Manager.

In 1998, Jim joined what is now Specialist Nutrition as Managing Director and continued to grow the business with the development of the moist and liquids feeds market. Specialist Nutrition is now the leading supplier of high-quality feeds and supplements to progressive dairy and beef farmers in Ireland and the UK.

Jim is a member of the Agricultural Science Association, Irish Farmers Association and Irish Holsten and Friesian Association.

Email:info@specialistnutrition.ie

Paul Flanagan DLF

DLF Seeds GM

Paul Flanagan

Paul has a long track record with the Arvum Group. Before being appointed as General Manager of DLF Seeds, he was Technical and Production Manager for Seedtech, with responsibility for seed production, technical support and research.

Previously, Paul worked with the UK’s Sports Turf Research Institute (STRI) as a consultant agronomist on numerous prestigious European projects. He holds an honours degree in Turfgrass Science from the University of Central Lancashire.

Paul brings with him a wealth of technical expertise, project management and research experience.

Email:info@dlfseeds.ie

Seedtech GM / ProNutri GM

Nigel Whyte

Nigel joined Seedtech as Commercial Director in 2016 having worked in the Financial Services Sector and specialising in the Commercial & Agri-Business sector. Nigel has a BAgrSc and worked with Teagasc specialising in crop production and mechanisation before joining Seedtech. In 2018, Nigel was appointed General Manager of Seedtech, responsible for all aspects of our seed business. Nigel has led the growth of our wholesale animal nutrition business, ProNutri, offering a range of innovative animal feed ingredients and nutritional solutions in Ireland.

Email :info@seedtech.ie

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