Meet the Team

Meet some members of the Trinity Team

  • Dr Hosein Khajeh-Hosseiny

    Dr Hosein Khajeh-Hosseiny

    Founder and Executive Chairman

    Hosein is a private equity investor, VC, & philanthropist in the UK and California. He’s been a Senior Advisor to McKinsey & Company for the past 25 years, has a PhD from the University of Cambridge. Hosein is a Trustee of several prestigious organisations including The Royal Agricultural Society of England and The National Oceanography Centre. Hosein’s deep passion for the provision of healthy food, farming and environment led him to the co-founding of Trinity Natural Capital Group.

  • Professor Jonathan Hillier

    Professor Jonathan Hillier

    Managing Director of Science

    As well as leading Trinity’s Science division, Jon is Chair of Mathematical Modelling and Global Food Systems at the University of Edinburgh. He was the original developer of Cool Farm Tool. He also led the development of AHDB’s Carbon Decision Tool. He is a member of the EU Nitrogen Expert Panel and Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Security and currently Chairs the cross-sector group to harmonise methods of accounting for alternative fertiliser products in carbon accounting systems.

  • Anna Woodley

    Anna Woodley

    Managing Director of Business Development

    Anna leads Trinity’s commercial team. Specialising in Farm Management Data Systems and digital transformation, she has held senior roles at industry leading organisations including Agrimetrics and Proagrica. Anna has a degree in commercial horticulture and studied business leadership and innovation with Säid Business School. Anna’s family run a farm in Sussex.

  • Dr Alasdair Sykes

    Dr Alasdair Sykes

    Managing Director of Natural Capital Engineering

    Alasdair leads Trinity’s Natural Capital Science and Engineering Team. He was previously Chief Scientific Officer and lead developer for Agrecalc and systems modeller for SRUC. His work continues to support decision making by DEFRA and the Scottish Government.

  • Sepi Honarmand

    Sepi Honarmand

    Managing Director of Products

    Having been with Trinity since its inception, Sepi leads Trinity’s Product Team. She has a background leading product and venture capital with several world-class, award-winning start-ups in Fintech, including for Northgate Capital.

  • Dr Milad Toolabi

    Dr Milad Toolabi

    Managing Director of AL/ML Advanced Analytics

    Milad leads Trinity’s cutting-edge work on AI, Machine Learning and Advanced Analytics. Skilled in Analytical Skills, Statistical Data Analysis, Management, and Data Analytics. Milad has a PhD focused in Dynamic Extended finite element method (XFEM) Analysis of discontinuous media from Imperial College London.

  • Juan Palomares

    Juan Palomares

    Strategic Lead on Natural Capital Markets

    Juan is an industrial engineer by training. His career has spanned the agricultural, financial services, and renewable energy sectors, including J.P. Morgan. Juan leads Trinity’s work in nature markets, green and sustainable finance.

  • Louise Rix

    Louise Rix

    Customer Success Manager

    Louise has over 10 years of technical sales experience in the agricultural sector, most recently at Hummingbird Technologies. She has a Masters in Carbon Science, with her dissertation focusing on onion production. Louise’s family farm on the Essex/Suffolk border.

  • William Cobbett

    Will Cobbett

    Customer Success Executive

    Originating from a citrus farm in South Africa, Will chose to pursue his agricultural interests in the UK and completed a degree in BSc Agriculture at the Royal Agricultural University. During his time at university, Will took up a summer internship with Bayer Crop Science - focusing on trials agronomy for new crop protection products.

  • Lachlan Fulton

    Lachlan Fulton

    Customer Success Executive

    Lachlan a great passion for sustainable agriculture. He worked on a cattle station in NSW, Australia, before attending the University of Exeter, where he graduated in Biological Sciences, specialising in Microbiology and Infectious Disease. Prior to joining Trinity, Lochie has undertaken internships at Durrell Conservation Trust and Corteva Agriscience, tackling both biodiversity and food security challenges.

  • Dr Joe Oyesiku-Blakemore

    Dr Joe Oyesiku-Blakemore

    Senior Natural Capital Engineer

    Joe’s PhD explored soil carbon emissions in upland soils. His background includes environmental modelling, including soil carbon sequestration and emissions in Scottish grasslands and environmental processes in red soil is South East China. Joe leads Trinity’s work in Remote Sensing.

  • Dr Juliette Maire

    Dr Juliette Maire

    Senior Natural Capital Engineer

    Juliette’s PhD explored nitrous oxide emissions from grazed grasslands. She is a remote sensing expert with foundations in agronomy, sustainable agriculture and agroecology.

  • Dr Gareth Burns

    Dr Gareth Burns

    Natural Capital Engineer

    Gareth Burns is an award-winning agricultural scientist whose PhD, recognised by the British Grassland Society and Teagasc, focused on assessing the nutritive quality of perennial ryegrass. With a strong foundation in agri-food research, Gareth has held a variety of leadership roles across the sector, driving the implementation of novel technologies and decision support tools to inform policy at regional, national, and international levels.

  • Professor Simon Potts

    Professor Simon Potts

    Chair of Scientific Board

    Simon is a Professor of Biodiversity & Ecosystem services, Director of the Centre for Agri-Environmental Research, Reading University, co-chair of the UN’s Thematic Assessment of Pollinators, & a member of DEFRA’s Pollinator Advisory Steering Group.

  • Wider team

    Wider team

    In addition to the core team, Trinity Agtech are supported by our award-winning Engineering and Design Team, and a network of scientists, researchers, technologists & agriculturalists, including our 46-member scientific board.

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