John Lloyd
Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)
Chair
Mr John Lloyd resides in regional NSW, near CSU's Orange campus and is the former CEO of Horticulture Innovation Australia/HAL leading both organisations over a nine year period of significant growth, change and transition. He is currently the Chairman of Meat and Livestock Australia, the Chairman of Saratoga Holdings, a non-executive director of Elders Ltd and independent Chair of Wine Australia's Portfolio Investment Committee. After a long corporate career that took him to most parts of Australia, as well as extensive experience overseas, John and his wife now run a small agricultural enterprise at Borenore NSW.
John’s career has spanned most parts of the Australian agribusiness sector with senior leadership positions including Managing Director Case IH/New Holland ANZ; General Manager Commercial Incitec Pivot; and General Manager Merchandise Wesfarmers Dalgety. John started his career as a trainee for Farmers and Graziers Ltd.
During his time at HIA, John led a significant restructure of the research corporation for the $12 Billion horticulture sector, creating new funding models that have catered for its longer-term strategic issues, as well as accessing broader and non-traditional sources of investment. These issues include Asian export markets, biosecurity, health and nutrition, pollination, fruit fly, intensive farming systems and urban greening.
John has a Bachelor of Science (Wool and Pastoral) from the University of NSW as well as an MBA from Macquarie University.
John is a member of the Charles Sturt University Council.
