Mark Harvey

Mark Harvey has over 40 years of experience in agriculture and agribusiness. He started his agribusiness journey managing a 10,000 acre family farm producing seed, grain crops, wool, lamb and beef, from 1976 until 1991.

He was one of the founders of Paramount Seeds which specialised in research, development and marketing of new field crops until sold to Elders Ltd in 1996. While with Elders, Mr Harvey was manager of their national and international seed business from 1996 until 2001.

In 2002, he was one of the founding partners of Seed Genetics International which is a leading researcher, producer and marketer of genetics and seed worldwide from Australia. In April 2013, Seed Genetics was sold to S&W Seed Co, a NASDAQ-listed company based in Sacramento California which is a leading US genetics and specialty seed company. He was elected as a director and by December 2014, Mr Harvey was elected chair of S&W Seed Company.

Mr Harvey is a director and shareholder of a company that holds seed and agricultural research production, milling and marketing assets in California, Idaho, Wisconsin and South Australia. He sits on the University of Adelaide's Waite Institute Advisory Board and is involved in various community activities.

Mr Harvey was educated at Cunderdin Agricultural College in Western Australia.