What’s your favourite part of the role? Being able to witness the development process from the concept stage through to becoming a product in the market.

I am really enjoying working in an innovative environment surrounded by people who are passionate about the projects they are running. It’s exciting to help with something that may make a significant difference to the farmers as well as the quality of life of the animals themselves.

Like most people, I enjoy growing and developing my career. I love challenges, a high pace and people. Getting to do all that in the field I love – genetics – is great.

I consider myself very lucky to work with such a special team. It´s hard to describe the great pleasure in working with them, we are part of a big family. And we are not just a Brazilian family because for me, it extends throughout Benchmark.

I work together with our sales people all around the globe, as well as people from the supply chain. Our interactions mostly take place via Skype to keep costs and our environmental footprint to a minimum.

I work with colleagues from R&D, as well as on the commercial and operations side, right across Benchmark. This means people involved in the development of new products, the production of these products, right through to sales and marketing.

The opportunity to be part of an organisation that has ambition and gives people the chance to have a real impact on our success is really important to me.

I came to an open day at Benchmark while getting ready to study a Veterinary degree, and what I heard that day has shaped my career to date.

I spend a lot of time working with site managers and veterinarians who are under immense pressure to control disease, in particular sea lice, and all of whom still have a real drive to find new ways of solving this issue which I find very inspiring.

I’ve been in my role just over 4 years.  I actually got to know Benchmark a couple of years before joining when I was working on the IPO – and knew from that time that I wanted to join the team.

I am responsible for the health and welfare of all the animals that we keep in production, in order to supply our customer base with the best seeds possible.