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Hugh founded Demeter in 2024 after five years as a Founding Partner at JE Global, a food & ag investment group. He was previously a public equity investor and an M&A banker, focused on data companies. 

He sits on the boards of Duck River Agriculture, Scindo, Wisecrop, Edafos & Adega das Tres Etapas.  

Alex leads Demeter’s engineering team and is responsible for technical roadmap, platform architecture and development of the full technology stack.

He was previously the software and systems architect for IATI, and an AI engineer at Dyson. He writes fiction and music.

Andrew advises on Demeter's most complex data challenges, including modelling data at global scale and developing forecasting models. 

He completed his PhD at the University of Oxford, where he researched the impact of climate change on Bordeaux wines. His popular history of the wine industry is due for publication in 2025.

Bridget is an epidemiologist and plant pathologist. She is responsible for developing research protocols and standards, and specialises in multidisciplinary research projects.

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She is an enthusiast of citizen science wildlife projects. 

Kevin maintains Demeter's full technology stack and is responsible for front-end development, internal tooling and geospatial automation. 

He previously worked at DoorFeed in the UK and various startups in his native Germany, and spent the Covid years researching regenerative agriculture. 

Sean specialises in geospatial data, automation and visualising complex datasets.

He speaks Spanish and Mandarin, and before joining Demeter was a volunteer at a botanical garden in the Peruvian Andes. 

Stuart has over 30 years' experience working on institutional-scale agricultural projects worldwide, including in Australia, Sweden and Portugal. 

He spent five years in Afghanistan and Kosovo with the World Bank and HELVETAS.

Demeter works with agronomists, farmers, consultants and researchers around the world to source data that can't be found anywhere else.