John Ridley
Managing Director
John is an environmental scientist with more than 30 years of experience in environmental management across three continents. He specializes in biological systems, sustainable resource management and managing carbon. John is a co-founder of Converte dating back to 2011.
Murray John Scott
Finance Director
Murray is an experienced professional in the areas of commercial finance, operations management, corporate governance, strategic planning, business process analysis, change implementation, mergers and acquisitions.
Scott Glyde
Director of Agribusiness
Scott is an experienced executive manager across Agricultural and Environmental Research, Innovation Development and Extension, commercial agribusiness and vocational and higher education portfolios.
Vishnu Sivadevan
India Business Devt. Manager
Vishnu is an experienced market analyst with a range of experience across different market sectors. particularly soils and animal health. He is now helping to grow the Converte business in India and managing partners and trial sites across the country.
Isabel Andreazza
Ag Scientist
Isabel’s role involves doing field work with customers, field trials, data analysis, generating reports for trial summaries and soil tests. She also works on new product development, in the areas of design and testing. She holds a Master of Science in Agronomy and Crop Science from the University of New England (AU). Her role at Converte continues to expand.
Matt Gatto
Ag Technician
Matt’s full-time role consists of product manufacturing in the Griffith warehouse, assisting the production manager and developing new products, ensuring all products are up to our high-quality standard.
Luke Peacock
Sales Representative - WA
Luke grew up on farming properties in Victoria before moving to WA and setting up a pest control business for the farming community. His passion is however, in farm health particularly soils and animal health. He is now helping to grow the Converte business across Western Australia.
Mark Vereker
Production Manager
Mark grew up on farm on NSW and has worked with livestock rearing and as a butcher. He also ran a hydroseeding business in Queensland. Mark joined Converte in 2013 and brings with him a wealth of experience. He currently heads our production facility in Griffith, NSW.
Julie Vereker
Administration Manager
Julie joined Converte at the outset of the company when we were based in Barellan NSW.
She had been with the company for over 8 years. Julie looks after all client orders, organises freight and all the necessary paperwork to make the business function smoothly.
