Jerry grew up in Staffordshire farming with his close friends on a mixed livestock farm with the main enterprise being a Canadian Holstein dairy herd and commercial egg-producing poultry flock – little did he know at the time as a “young farmer” that he then would spend the rest of his career supporting people and their flocks in the poultry sector through Elanco Animal Health.
He has spent three decades working in various roles for Elanco across a broad range of geographies and leads the UK and Ireland Poultry and Swine business’ whilst taking an active interest in the global strategy and future of Elanco and their teams.
Jerry is a keen mentor and coach of people within the sector across a broad range of roles and has helped develop many bright talents for today and the future.
Outside of work, Jerry is an active outdoors person – an enthusiastic river fly fisherman, long-distance cyclist and Iron Man.
Jerry has been an EPIC committee member for the last decade and currently holds the post of Chairman of the committee.