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Company · Cambridge

Niab.

Growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds

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Official record Companies House · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

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Previous officers 40

  1. Flor Aiden Healy 2024–2025 Director View profile
  2. Professor Mario Jose Caccamo 2021–2026 Director View profile
  3. Robert Campbell Lowson 2018–2026 Director View profile
  4. Dr Ian James Puddephat 2017–2025 Director View profile
  5. Stephen John Ellwood 2015–2025 Director View profile
  6. Dr Nigel Wells Kerby 2015–2023 Director View profile
  7. Professor Alison Smith 2015–2023 Director View profile
  8. Dr Charles Alfred Lang 2014–2022 Director View profile
  9. Kathleen Elizabeth Fidgeon 2014–2022 Director View profile
  10. Sir James Edward Thornton Paice 2013–2017 Director View profile
  11. Dr Nigel Leslie Davies 2012–2015 Director View profile
  12. Robert Harle 2012–2020 Director View profile
  13. James Eric Godfrey 2012–2022 Director View profile
  14. Richard Auld Macdonald 2010–2020 Director View profile
  15. Andrew Kuyk 2010–2018 Director View profile
  16. Geoffrey James Elliott 2009–2012 Director View profile
  17. Dr Richard William Summers 2009–2015 Director View profile
  18. Sir David Charles Baulcombe 2008–2014 Director View profile
  19. Jeremy Wynn Lewis 2007–2016 Director View profile
  20. Tina Lorraine Barsby 2006–2021 Director View profile
  21. Professor Francesco Salamini 2005–2009 Director View profile
  22. David James Osborn Caffall 2004–2010 Director View profile
  23. Alison Margaret Blackburn 2003–2010 Director View profile
  24. Professor John Stewart Parker 2003–2009 Director View profile
  25. Paul Michael Heygate 2002–2009 Director View profile
  26. Professor Peter Robert Shewry 2001–2008 Director View profile
  27. Anthony William Dunn Pexton 2001–2012 Director View profile
  28. Vincent Richard Hedley Lewis 2000–2007 Director View profile
  29. John Edwin Heading 1999–2004 Director View profile
  30. Dr Jane Pears Carmichael 1998–2004 Director View profile
  31. Robert Bentley Nelstrop 1997–1999 Director View profile
  32. Clifford Raymond Alderton 1997–1998 Director View profile
  33. Antony Francis Pemberton Ma Dl 1997–2001 Director View profile
  34. David Ian Hodgson 1997–2002 Director View profile
  35. Anthony David Andrews 1997–2000 Director View profile
  36. Neville Store Bark 1997–2002 Director View profile
  37. Dr Juno Mckee 2021–2024 Secretary View profile
  38. Stephen Clark Masson 2019–2020 Secretary View profile
  39. Susan Nicola Arnold 2008–2018 Secretary View profile
  40. Joseph William Hall 1997–2006 Secretary View profile

Directors and secretaries as filed at Companies House.

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About

What it does
Growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds; Support activities for crop production; Other research and experimental development on natural sciences and engineering
Incorporated
01/07/1997
Registered office
Cambridge
Also a registered charity
Niab
Board analysis for researchers

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from the Companies House officer record and Charity Commission trustee records - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Companies House officer record: the current directors only, past directors excluded.

7 directors on the board

3.3y median 3.1y
average tenure
5.6y
longest tenure
0
directors past 6 years

First-time vs portfolio directors

First-time (3)

Portfolio (4)

Left in the last 12 months

Where else this board sits iWhere else this board sitsThe charitable fields these directors govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this company and any charity it is the legal face of.

Agriculture 10Professional services 4Finance 1Manufacturing 1

The sectors these directors govern in elsewhere. This company, and any charity it is the legal face of, are excluded - counting them would just tell you what you are already looking at.

Sources

Official record from Companies House. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Company number
03395389
Status
Active
Type
PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption)
Accounts next due
28/09/2026
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
Official record from Companies House · Calculated derived by Governance Register.

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