Adam Kay

Chief Executive Officer

Head Office – Sydney, NSW

Adam is responsible for the overall management and leadership of the organisation and represents Cotton Australia to government, media and other industry organisations. He is involved in all aspects of the business and is the public face of Cotton Australia.

• Phone: 02 9669 5222

Therese Wooden

Head Office – Sydney, NSW

Therese is responsible for all accounting functions of Cotton Australia, manages the financial aspects of government projects and is the primary contact for levy collection. Therese also manages the accounts for special projects such as the Australian Cotton Conference and the Australian Cotton Industry Awards.

• Phone: 02 9669 5222

Desley Sheedy

Communications Manager - Digital Strategy

Head Office – Sydney, NSW

• Ph: (02) 9669 5222

Jenny Hughes

Education Manager

Head Office – Sydney, NSW

Jenny is Cotton Australia's Education Coordinator and brings nine years of agricultural education experience, backed up by 10 years in the classroom, to her position. Jenny specialises in hands-on interactive engagement for students and teachers. She has a passion for assisting teachers incorporate agriculture into their classrooms with curriculum-linked resources and to gain a better understanding of the cotton industry through Teach the Teacher Tours.

• Phone: 02 9669 5222

Simone Cameron

Senior Policy Manager, Northern Australia

Northern Australia

Simone is Cotton Australia’s most northern industry representative, based in Katherine, NT. She has an extensive career in agriculture most notably as an industry advocate, technical agronomist, and educator. Her role will be instrumental in guiding and leading sound policy positions enabling responsible environmental stewardship for our developing northern industry.

• Phone: 0413 308 335

Policy Officer - Research Direction and Stewardship

• Phone (in the interim): Michael Murray 0427 707 868

Rob Crothers

myBMP Manager

Rob came to Cotton Australia with more than 36 years’experience in the agricultural sector. He worked for Pioneer Seeds for 19 yearsin several roles including Sorghum and Corn Product manager, Northern Regional Manager and Territory manager for the Central Downs and Burnett.

Previous to that, Rob spent three years working for Wesfarmers Landmark as a sales agronomist.

Rob has long called the Darling Downs home, being a Dalby AgCollege graduate and spending his first 14 years of his career as a dryland and irrigated farmer near Warwick.

Janet Barker

Regional Manager - Darling Downs QLD

Janet has worked with industry, industry bodies, government and regional Natural Resource Management groups, mainly in the area of biosecurity, throughout her career. She was first involved in the cotton industry while studying at university over the summers as an agronomy assistant, cotton chipper, module builder and heliothis resistance crop scout. She has seen big changes in the industry since that time and is looking forward to working with our growers on Cotton Australia initiatives and myBMP.

Phone: 0411 864 203

Sally Rigney

Regional Manager - St George/Dirranbandi/Mungindi

As a Regional Manager for Cotton Australia in the northern Basin, Sally Rigney is passionate about working with local growers to create an energetic and vibrant local community. From their grain and cattle property at Nindigully, Sally uses her experience as a former ABC Radio journalist and Agri-political Communications Director to give a voice to the people, events and issues of south-west Queensland. Sally’s definition of success is finding where you belong, embracing it and enjoying it.

• Phone: 0417 758 353

Craig Chandler

Regional Manager - Macquarie Valley, NSW

Craig was born and raised in Wellington, comes from an agricultural background, and has spent more than 30 years working in the farming sector throughout New South Wales.

In 2003, Craig was a founding partner of TEAM Irrigation Dubbo, a business that grew over 16 years to become a leading irrigation and water technology supplier in Australia. Through this business experience, Craig developed extensive knowledge of all aspects of water policy and compliance, WHS and risk management, and safety and quality assurance.

Craig also brings to the regional manager role extensive knowledge of the Macquarie Valley irrigation area through past relationships with local water groups.

• Phone: 0428 077 270

Robyn Lehmann

Regional Manager - Central Highlands

Having worked in the Vocational Education, Training and Apprenticeship sector for almost 20 years, Robyn is new to the Cotton Industry and is excited to be working with growers in the Central Highlands and Central Queensland area as the Regional Manager.

Robyn’s focus in her role is to be the conduit between local growers and Cotton Australia by communicating through important feedback, supporting industry at a local level and provide assistance and guidance to growers wishing to undertake myBMP Accreditation.

• Phone: 0408 012 569