Booth Associates - Our Team

Our Team

We have assembled a highly experienced and and professional team whose members are multi-skilled and possess a range of complementary skills.

	Bill Booth Director/Principal Consultant Certified Practing Agricultural Consultant B.Sc (Soil &Water), Dip. Ag Email This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Bill Booth is a founding partner of *Booth Associates* and heads up the firm's professional team. With 40 years of hands on agribusiness experience Bill has extensive knowledge of a diverse range of agricultural and horticultural crops, business analysis, finance, benchmarking and general project management skills. Bill combines his formal education and wide professional experience in agribusiness and environmental issues to differentiate clients' assets and products in an increasingly discerning market place.
	Michael Ryan Principal Consultant Certified Practing Agricultural Consultant B.Sc (Agriculture) Email This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Michael is a principal consultant and managing director of Booth Associates with agribusiness, managerial and agronomic capabilities. He has broad experience with all facets of agriculture over a wide range of rural industries throughout NSW. His professional experience includes the development of strategic business plans, annual business reviews, investment appraisal, financial planning and analysis, business diagnosis and viability assessments and other analytical projects for a variety of businesses. He has also led the preparation of various land use and land capability projects, industry viability and options assessments including consultative processes. Michael also undertakes Expert Witness work, particularly in the area of agricultural viability and loss assessment.
	Scott Vaessen Agribusiness Consultant B Appl Sc (Ag), GDip Vet Email This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Scott's agribusiness managerial and agronomic skills add further capabilities to the well-rounded Booth Associates team. Scott has extensive experience with agricultural businesses, as a consultant and corporate farm agronomist. Scott manages his own dryland cropping farm and irrigated horticulture farm balancing both a commitment to Booth Associates and the properties.
	Kelly Tyson Senior Environmental Consultant Ass Dip Town & Country Planning, B.App.Sc (Env. Planning), Grad Cert (Eng), Grad Cert (River Restoration & Mgt) Email This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Kelly is a senior environmental consultant with significant experience in environmental planning and management. Kelly worked extensively as an environmental planner in Local Government as an independent environmental consultant, and for a private irrigation company in water quality and environmental compliance.
	Christopher Neilson Environmental Consultant B.App.Sc (Sys.Ag), M.Env.Mgt, EMS Auditor Email This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Christopher's experience includes high order oral and written communication skills, strong liaison development skills, experience communicating and liaising with the media, highly developed research techniques and analytical skills. His professional experience was gained from projects such as the preparation of business plans, strategic plans, environmental reports, conflict resolution initiatives and viability studies.
	Emma Grabham Agribusiness Consultant B.Sc (Plant Biotechnology) Email This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Emma is an agribusiness consultant with the Booth Associates team, with a focus strong horticultural background. Emma's past experience includes extension work in the winegrape industry, assisting growers and their enterprises. Emma currently combines her work at Booth Associates with management of the MIA Vine Improvement Society bringing a complementary skill set to her role.

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We do not pretend to be everything to all clients. Our strength is in building project specific teams from our network of peer respected, experienced and efficient professionals. As our client you will benefit from the input and experience of the nominated Booth Associates teams We do not allocate the work to juniors behind upfront principals.