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About ExoFlare

ExoFlare is Australia’s leading biosecurity solutions company.

What we do

ExoFlare was founded by Adrian Turner, formerly CEO of CSIRO’s Data61 and Chris Aitken, a senior technology expert in industrial safety analytics, who recognised that the food system will increasingly be contested by biological threats. We see this already with the rising number and frequency of disease outbreaks and incursions, including the heightened threat of Foot and Mouth Disease and Lumpy Skin Disease in the red meat industry, and Avian Influenza in the poultry industry.

The current biosecurity system is not fit-for-purpose to manage biological threats, especially at the farm and along the supply chain. Right now, for many producers, biosecurity is in the ‘too-hard-basket’, leading to a compliance mentality at best. ExoFlare puts biosecurity threat management tools into the hands of producers so that they can actively and effectively manage biosecurity risk as a normal and integral part of daily operations.

The future of farming

ExoFlare is developing new digital biosecurity infrastructure for food industries to move out of compliance and into active biosecurity threat management. 

The ultimate benefit of this system  will be the ability for food producers to return quickly to normal operation following a disease or pest incursion.

ExoFlare is an Australian company that provides Biosecurity Threat Management solutions to food producers and their supply chains. 

We see a future world where the global food system is biosecure.

Executive Team

Adrian Turner

Chief Executive Officer

Adrian spent 18 years in Silicon Valley where he co-founded and was CEO of Mocana Corporation, protecting the internet of things and critical infrastructure from cybersecurity threats.

He returned to Australia in 2015 to lead CSIRO’s Data61 as CEO. Data61 delivered high impact research and engineering programs including robotics, machine learning/AI, privacy, cybersecurity, distributed ledger technologies (blockchain), and spatial intelligence to seed new industries for Australia.

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Chris Aitken

Chief Operating Officer

Chris spent over 25 years in Silicon Valley and New York, and led KPMG Consulting’s North American strategy practice.

He co-founded Borondi Group, a holding company that built operating assets to leverage platform economics and pervasive computing to transform traditionally conservative industries.

Before returning to Australia to focus on ExoFlare, Chris was CEO of a company using machine learning to predict work, health, and safety issues in heavy industries.

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Richard Webby

Chief Technology Officer

Richard has led engineering and technology teams at startups, scaleups, and large corporations.

As Vice President of Technology at Walt Disney Disney Parks & Resorts and as CTO at Scentre Group (Westfield), he delivered significant digital transformations in complex organisations. He has deep experience in transactional software, cyber-physical systems, data analytics, and artificial intelligence.

He holds a Ph.D. in data science and is a Professor of Practice at the University of New South Wales.

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Andrea Koch

Chief Product Marketing and Customer Success Officer

Andrea is an experienced technology leader and ex-National Farmers Federation Board Member who led the development of the Australian Farm Data Code.

From a fifth-generation farming family in South Australia, Andrea combines innate knowledge of agriculture with over twenty years of corporate marketing and product development experience from telecom and media, and a decade of engagement in agricultural research and innovation, with policy development and advocacy.

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Board

Adrian Turner

CEO, ExoFlare

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Chris Aitken

COO, ExoFlare

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Shaun Bonétt

Founder, CEO & Managing Director, Precision Group

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Dan Bennett

General Partner, Salus Ventures

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Advisory Board

Chris Knoblanche

Experienced company advisor; former MD and Head of Citigroup Corporate and Investment Banking, ANZ

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Ameet Patel

US based enterprise angel investor/mentor to over 170 companies.

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Nick Eshkenazi

Globally recognised digital and technology expert; ex-Woolworths CTO

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Michele Allan AO

Global leader in food and agriculture production and innovation

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Rob Fitzpatrick

Experienced CEO; former non-executive director, Meat and Livestock Australia.

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Our values

  • People First: We value authentic, respectful and diverse relationships.
  • Purpose-driven: We target planet-scale challenges.
  • Collective Success: We succeed when our customers and partners succeed.
  • Growth Mindset: We actively learn to accelerate our sustainable impact.
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