Speakers

Dr Ross Hendron is the Co-Founder and CEO of Wild Bio, an Oxford University spin-out harnessing evolution to build resilient crops for a changing planet. He completed his PhD at Oxford, worked at the billion-dollar investment firm OSE, and co-founded Wild Bio with Prof Steve Kelly in 2021. Since then, Ross has led Wild in creating end-to-end crop improvement pipelines, establishing partnerships to advance programmes from discovery to international field trials, and scaling the company through successful fundraises.