ICL has welcomed Sam
Rivers to its technical area sales team to advise customers in the home
counties to the west, north and east of London.
Well qualified, Sam
has a National Diploma in Horticulture, a BSc in Horticulture from the
University of Essex and an MSc in Entomology from Harper Adams in 2018.
In addition, over
the past nine years he has accrued far reaching practical skills growing
glasshouse crops at Writtle College, working as a senior horticulturalist for
Cambridge University, producing beneficial insects for a leading UK biocontrol
company and in forest entomology in the States.
“Bringing a broad
range of horticultural experience with him, Sam is highly qualified and a
welcome addition to our highly skilled technical area sales team,” says ICL
sales manager, Adrian Thirtle-Watts.
“As we look to
expand our IPM plant protection portfolio, his entomology expertise will be
particularly valuable.”
Sam’s appointment
follows the retirement of ICL technical area sales manager (TASM) Jackie Hall
at the end of 2018. While TASM Steve Chapman will continue advising
growers in Kent, he has also taken over Jackie’s sales area in Sussex.
Meanwhile Andy
Hodges, who advises growers in the SW, has taken over the whole of
Hampshire.
Newcomer Sam will be
looking after growers in Essex, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire
and Northants.
