Karl is the Non-Executive Chair of Yeo Valley Ltd and Yeo Valley Farms Ltd. Karl has been with the Yeo Valley Family of Businesses since 1996 having joined from the Quarrying Industry and before that having served in the British Army.
Karl has been a key member of the leadership team that has seen Yeo Valley grow to be the UK’s largest organic food brand and one of the largest, independent, family owned dairy businesses in the UK.
Prior to his current role Karl has been the Managing Director of Yeo Valley Properties Ltd and Executive Chairman and Managing Director of Yeo Valley Production Ltd.
As well as his role at Yeo Valley, Karl is the Chair of the Heart of the South West LEP and Chair for the Great South West PRP. He is a Non-Executive Director of a start-up business, Remit Zero Ltd, developing alternative solutions for the replacement of fossil fuel boilers.
Karl is also Chair of ‘South Bristol Youth’, a body working to raise the aspiration, motivation and attainment levels of the more disadvantaged young people of Bristol and Somerset and he is a Governor of the Merchants Academy school in Withywood, Bristol. Karl joined the South-West Social Mobility Commission as he is passionate about ensuring that the young people who grow up in the region have the opportunity and skills required to be active and participate in our regional economy at the highest level possible. We have amazing opportunities in the region that will create significant numbers of high value jobs in the future and Karl wants as many of those jobs as possible being filled by the young people who grow up and live here.
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