Management

  • Jamie Lewis

    Chief Executive Officer

    Winner of the Argus Startup Award, Jamie is a leading CEO within the resurgent bioeconomy and the developing Net Zero sector. He leads Rare Earth with a focus on investor relations and sales, Jamie has led the scaling of Rare Earth’s award winning decarbonisation solution and succeeded in simplifying access to the world’s most sustainable crop, industrial hemp.

    Jamie has worked with some of the largest companies in the world to develop customer off takes (1 million + tonnes annually) to drive this climate tech solution. He is an advisor to governments and multinationals on achieving their Net Zero targets and in particular, the reduction of their Scope 3 (supply chain emissions). 

  • Suneet Shivaprasad

    Chief Technology Officer

    Recognised by Climate Insider as one of the top 3 CTOs Advancing Climate Action, Suneet is a co-founder at Rare Earth. With over 10 years in data driven roles he has managed the development of Rare Earth’s marketplace platform and its ground breaking crop optimisation programme.

    Suneet has co-authored several of the world leading research papers on hemp products. At Rare Earth, he takes a lead on the company’s research and development activities across the animal feed, construction and energy industries. He also lectures and keynotes at leading climate events such as Innovation Zero, Sustainable Aquaculture Summit and Cambridge University.

  • Stephen Wong

    Chief Operating Officer

    Stephen draws upon his project management, food manufacturing and accounting experience as COO. He built the first-of-its-kind operating model for scaling the supply of hemp to meet industrial scale orders. The impact was recognised with a nomination by the Nature Conservancy for Prince William’s Earthshot Prize.

    He entered the industrial hemp sector with Rare Earth to develop the company’s international network, developing its footprint from a standing start to 600+ hectares of land across several jurisdictions (Europe, Asia and South America). He has over a decade’s experience managing transactions of up to US$30 million for high growth companies.