With family ties and experience on cattle stations, Andrew has merged his rural experience with an extensive career in financial markets to raise capital for significant projects in the agriculture sector. He has invested both his time and capital in helping Farmbot grow.
Leaders in remote water monitoring
Farmbot was established in Sydney in 2014 and is a leading Australian Agtech company. Our Saas Platform gathers data points via our unique IoT device that puts Farmers “in the know” on their water assets with near real time reporting on water levels, trends and alerts anywhere in the world.
Our founders combined knowledge of farming, the IT industry and financial markets in the agriculture sector are core to bringing Farmbot’s vision to life:
Provide farmers with a smart, cost effective and easy to use solution to better manage their most valuable resource – water. The farming experience across our executive team allows us to intimately understand the everyday hardships that farmers are faced with.
That’s why Farmbot’s solutions are designed and built to not only bring innovation and progress into agribusinesses but to also provide farmers with the knowledge they need to better plan their day, save on costs and have the peace of mind they rarely get to have. The company monitors and reports on-farm water ecosystems delivering near real-time reporting on water trends, consumption and alerts.
Get to know the team
Andrew Coppin
Founder and CEO
Drawing on his experience as a farmer for 14 years and his specialist technical knowledge, Craig founded Farmbot in 2014 to create smart, cost-effective and easy-to-use water management solutions for farmers. Craig also has over 40 years’ experience in the IT industry working across the banking, telco, retail and government sectors.
Craig Hendricks
Co-Founder
Tess is from the Latrobe Valley in Victoria and has a qualification in event management. Her customer focus in events greatly compliments her customer service role at Farmbot. Her ideal holiday is spending time on friends properties in regional NSW.
Tessa O’Hagan
Chief of Staff
With almost 30 years in accounting and finance, Martin has worked in a number of senior roles within the fintech, retail, FMCG and healthcare sectors, bringing a wealth of experience and financial knowledge to Farmbot.
Martin Christmas
Chief Financial Officer
Fabien joined Farmbot after 13 years at the Domain group and more recently as CTO of Insurtech scale-up. He has extensive engineering experience in building for scale, high availability, security and compliance which will help propel Farmbot from start-up to scale-up.
Fabien Ruffin
Chief Technology Officer
Catalina Chaparro Solano is an industrial engineer from Colombia. She moved to Sydney in 2011 to experience life in Australia and loves the challenge of getting Farmbot monitors to all parts of rural Australia.
Catalina Chaparro-Solano
Logistic Manager
Elizabeth's passion for supporting the agriculture industry stemmed from growing up on a sheep station in southern NSW where she still remains highly involved. She has a Bachelor of Business (Marketing) degree and experience within rural media as the former News Corp Agribusiness Head.
Elizabeth Cameron
Head of Marketing
Pascal has a Bachelor of Engineering (Mechatronics, First Class Honours) and a Bachelor of Science (Physics). Pascal works closely with the Farmbot team on product design and is a founding member of Farmbot.
Pascal Hendricks
R&D Manager
David studied at Monash University, a Bachelor of Mechatronics and went onto complete his Masters in Advanced Manufacturing & Design at MIT in Boston. David has worked as a Production engineer establishing processes for the manufacturing of new medical devices & prior to that had 7 years as an Electrical Production engineer.
David Mimery
Production Manager
Simone has a Bachelor in Food and Agribusiness (First Class Honours) from the University of Sydney. She is experienced in product management and agile methodologies in the AgTech space.
Simone Barakat
Product Manager
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