Meet The Team
SIMON PRIOR
A graduate in Agricultural Marketing and Business Management. He has held a number of management positions trading feedstuffs for UK PLCs. This has involved trading on behalf of co-product producers, running trading positions and shipping by-products / co-products for onward sale to the compound feed and biomass industries. Simon joined CS Commodity Solutions to deal with non-grain feed materials for feed use and biomass demand and to specialise in co-products. Simon has been President of the Bristol Corn and Feed Trade Association and sits on the committee.
MIKE TUFNELL
A graduate in Agricultural and Environmental Science from Newcastle University and post-graduate in Crop Protection from Harper Adams. He started his career at a major UK grain trading company and for the ten years prior to joining the company held various procurement roles for Allied Milling and Baking; a large national milling and baking company. Mike joined CS Commodity Solutions in 2010 to develop the domestic milling wheat trade. He has gone on to develop trade in the import and export of milling wheat, and was on the committee of British Cereal Exports.
Having worked with Robert and Peter on malting barley over a number years, he now leads the team in both the domestic and European malting barley trade.
MARMADUKE HATFIELD
A graduate in French and International Politics from Warwick University, Marmaduke began his career in Collateral Management and Trade Facilitation at Vallis Commodities. As Operations Manager and latterly Commercial Manager, he was responsible for import/export operations, logistics and compliance across francophone West Africa. Joining Commodity Solutions in November 2017, Marmaduke's focus is on milling wheat broking.
We specialise in helping to create business in all areas: anywhere from a query on the markets to the logistics, as well as supporting delivery and all that goes in between.