Leadership team

Jamie O’Sullivan

Group Managing Director

 

Jamie O’Sullivan is group managing director for Proagrica, EG, Nextens, and XpertHR within the LexisNexis® Risk Solutions Group (RSG) portfolio of brands. In this role, Jamie provides strategic leadership, accelerating product innovation and driving commercial execution across these markets. Jamie is passionate about the immense opportunities in agriculture and animal health to deliver efficiency, insights, and profitability through data-driven solutions. In 2021, he assumed direct leadership of Proagrica, bringing with him over 20 years of experience leading brands across the RSG portfolio. Jamie has a particular strength in delivering on high-level strategy by getting the best out of internal teams, thus helping businesses scale up core platforms globally. As such, he leverages the vast functional skills and domain expertise that exists across Proagrica to execute on our vision and accelerate at scale.

Lindsay Suddon

Chief Strategy Officer

 

Lindsay Suddon is Chief Strategy Officer for Proagrica. As one of the original architects of Proagrica, Lindsay’s focus continues to be on strengthening Proagrica’s ability to provide a wide range of data-centred solutions to a variety of industry segments across the supply chain, unlocking value for all.
Under Lindsay’s time with Proagrica, the division has transformed itself into a technology and data business, acquiring a variety of best-in-class assets such as GateKeeper, F4F (Adaptris) and SST. A large part of the strategy involves organic innovation and development; bringing together existing and acquired assets to create new, valuable products and solutions; smart insight-driven data analysis that helps drive the industry forward; managing risk and driving productivity; and profitability and compliance.

Caroline Davis

Chief Operating Officer

 

Caroline Davis joined Proagrica in August 2022 after six years in ICIS, Lexis Nexis Risk Solutions chemical data business. Caroline brings previous experience of commercial and business transformation across start-ups, banks and stock exchanges where she led successful growth and transformation initiatives. Within Proagrica, Caroline supports the business to deliver data-led solutions to support our customers maximize profitability, improve efficiency, and deliver revenue through agriculture and animal health centered data and insight solutions.

Caroline was drawn to Proagrica, a trusted partner for the global agriculture and animal health industries, through the value driven by our integrated network, workflow solutions and actionable insight provide to ensure our customers are better connected to make more informed decisions, growing productivity and profitability. In times of geopolitical uncertainty, supply chain challenges and the rising cost of inputs, she is proud to support the industry to be better informed.  

Ryan Risdal

President, Ag Solutions

 

As President of Ag Solutions at Proagrica, Ryan oversees the global Agronomic Solutions Division and leads the Americas Business Region. Ryan has over 20 years leadership experience in the agriculture industry. Proagrica is a trusted partner in the global agriculture and animal health sectors.

Richard Sibbit

VP, Global Professional Services and Delivery

 

Richard Sibbit is Managing Director of the Animal Health division of Proagrica. Drawing on over 25 years of experience, Richard leads the Animal Health strategic drive for global expansion in Europe, APAC, US and Canadian markets. Under his guidance, the Animal Health team deliver network, workflow and business intelligence solutions to enable streamlined and improved processes, business growth and ROI. Richard's experience covers integration and EDI, business strategy, business planning, work flow solutions (rebate management, loyalty and promotions) data management and BI. He spends time with his customers developing strategic roadmaps and business plans to deliver growing and innovative technology platforms which enable revenue growth and operational cost savings. More recently, the strategic focus has shifted onto enabling animal health customers to use Proagrica’s integration, data and analytic platforms, which offer traceability, provenance and antibiotic stewardship solutions. These are key issues in the global animal health supply chain today – areas in which Richard continues to be at the forefront through global partnerships and collaboration.

Peter Leppan

VP, Enterprise Solutions

 

Peter Leppan is Regional Director for EMEA covering both Proagrica and Adaptris. With a strong background in Supply Chain and Integration, Peter has worked on advancing solutions that bring those two specialties together since 1998. Having taken on roles in Africa, the USA and now across Europe and the UK, there are a number of similar business and technical challenges, driven by local nuances, that he has worked together with customers across the world to face and solve. Peter is tasked with driving the EMEA business forward, using leading integration and analytics tools for the benefit of Proagrica's customers and partners. In recent years, his primary concentration has been on unearthing the value of business data, whether it is locked away within internal systems or spread across various different systems and partners across the supply chain. Through smart integration and advanced tools, Peter leads the drive for unlocking data's true value for EMEA businesses, according to their individual requirements and objectives.

Glen Andrews

Regional Director, Asia Pacific & Strategic Planning Lead

 

Glen Andrews is Regional Director for Proagrica in Asia Pacific, responsible for driving Proagrica’s connected data mission through region performance, execution strategy, market strategy and supporting global R&D. With the increase in data availability and new technology transforming on-farm management, Glen is committed to improving collaboration, profitability, growth and compliance across the entire value chain. Glen has been instrumental in introducing the Agility data and analytics platform to the market in Australia and New Zealand, with the aim of delivering actionable insight across the industry, both to individual businesses and to collaborative groups. Glen’s background is in the supply chain, helping the industry with inventory management, forecasting and procurement, and he is passionate about bringing together supply chain and on farm activity and opportunity in the food chain. Currently, Glen is focused on bringing together Proagrica’s advanced supply chain connectivity and analytics with the unique agX^® and Sirrus platforms, in order to create additional capability for customers, significantly moving things forward for farmers and those who work with them.

Monica Mak

VP of Marketing

 

Monica is an accomplished marketing leader with over 20 years of marketing experience, specializing in B2B complex data analytics solutions.  She has led several successful go-to-market strategies including the launch of ClinicalKey in APAC, delivered strategic thought-leadership program to transform Elsevier’s brand perception in the health market and rebuild key marketing teams including regional marketing, events and sales enablement.  Prior to Proagrica, Monica worked at Elsevier, Microsoft, Dentsu Advertising and United Healthcare.  As a global citizen, Monica has lived in Hong Kong, Beijing, Singapore, New York, Boston and Chicago, and is currently based in London.  Monica is also an active ally of inclusion and diversity and have launched Elsevier’s first Allyship Learning Series at Elsevier.  Monica obtained her Bachelor of Science from Boston College (US) and an MBA from Northeastern University (US).

Dean Smith

Chief Technology Officer Proagrica

 

Dean Smith joined Proagrica as Chief Technology Officer in March 2022 after seven years of leading technology innovation in Lexis Nexis Risk Solutions. Dean is an experienced technology leader with an impressive record in driving improvements in speed-to-market and operational efficiencies using Cloud Technologies, DevOps, Agile development, and Automation. Within Proagrica, Dean leads the global technology team across key geographies and technology platforms, with a focus on evolving the business to provide effective data solutions in partnership with our customers.