Our Team

venture | dairy is a team of experts, passionate about bringing change to the problems in dairy economies in emerging markets. We address these problems in a number of ways bringing deep skills, experience and cultural understanding to make long term sustainable change through our disruptive and proven farming model.

Trevor Tomkins

Trevor Tomkins

Dairy value chain | Milk processing plant management

Expertise in worldwide dairy industry, its value chains and the major players. In depth knowledge and experience of the dairy industry in developing economies including East Africa and India. Founder of venture | dairy

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Mike Drennan

Mike Drennan

Mike Drennan is co-founder of venture | dairy and developed a career in accounting and finance in the UK and Europe before moving to the USA in 1993 to become the CFO of Anchor Hocking Packaging

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Walter Guterbock

Walter Guterbock

Dr. Walter Guterbock joined Venture Dairy in 2014 and participated in the development of the prescriptive model for dairy management in Kenya and India.

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Elisa Tumino-Van Amburgh

Elisa Tumino-Van Amburgh

Elisa was born in Ragusa, Sicily and was educated as forage chemist and milk and cheese quality technician. In her region, she worked with dairy producers to improve milk and cheese quality and also spent several years studying the production, conservation and utilization of forages with particular focus on the quality of the native pasture

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