Bob Mullins

Bob was raised on a wheat farm and has enjoyed an international career in technology-based businesses supporting high-value horticulture. He has broad business experience having held senior commercial and technical leadership roles in Australia, Malaysia, Korea, Singapore, and the United States.

Bob is motivated by the challenge of leveraging research and technology to deliver practical, profitable, and sustained innovation for growers. After early roles as a plant breeder and R&D manager in sugar cane, he joined a plant biotech and robotics start-up before moving to Asia to join Syngenta Seeds. Bob led vegetable seeds businesses across APAC and the Americas contributing to extended periods of profitable growth, business development, and commercialisation of innovative technologies.

Bob is an experienced director of commercial and not-for-profit businesses in Australia and internationally. Currently, he is a non-executive director of Future Food Systems Ltd, New Edge Microbials Group Pty Ltd and InterGrain Pty Ltd.

Bob is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and has degrees in Agricultural Science, Technology Management, and Plant Breeding.