Our founder and CEO is Benjamin Swan: an industry thought leader and innovator in agri-tech and plant science with over 10 years of experience as an agri-tech entrepreneur.

 

Ben co-founded Sustenir Agriculture, Asia’s pioneering indoor vertical farm. While at Sustenir, Ben designed Sustenir’s patented growing techniques and technology.

 

Trained as a construction engineer, Ben initially moved to Singapore in 2008 to build Marina Bay Sands. During that time, he began experimenting with Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) to grow salad leaves for personal consumption. Eventually, the knowledge Ben gained led him to found Sustenir Agriculture in 2014, providing consumers with nutritious produce while displacing imports (thus reducing food waste and emissions from long haul logistics).

 

Following the success of Sustenir, Ben stepped down as CEO and founded BECO Verdant. Through BECO, Ben aims to empower smallholder farms to unlock greater profitability and productivity by providing access to standardised, scalable, CEA greenhouse technologies.