Ed Catherwood is a Massey University agricultural science graduate, with experience in animal health and nutrition. Ed’s great great grandfather purchased a farm in Canterbury following his arrival from Ireland to New Zealand almost 160 years ago. This continued an even longer intergenerational connection that many Catherwood family members have experienced with pastoral farming of livestock. More recently Ed founded AgriHealth in 2008, and continues to own and lead the company. 

AgriHealth aims to help local vets help NZ farmers improve health and productivity, and has invested heavily in clinical trials to improve NZ farm animal outcomes. Ed attributes much of the success of NZ's leading locally owned animal health business to the experienced and skilled team that joined him at AgriHealth over the years. 

Ed is the Chair of ARPPA and represents the Association at AVMAC meetings and other relevant industry groups. In this pro bono role, as with the AgriHealth business, Ed endeavours to achieve the best outcomes for local agriculture and veterinary medicine, and ensure New Zealand remains a great place to farm animals and a wonderful place to live.

Lyndsay Lawrence is a Massey University veterinary graduate in addition to her Otago University degree in Pharmacy; a valuable combination of expertise for her role at AgriHealth.

She has experience as a dairy cattle vet practitioner in the Waikato region of New Zealand, and also had technical, regulatory and commercial roles at New Zealand animal health and veterinary medicines firms. She was NZ country manager of Fort Dodge prior to the company’s purchase by Pfizer (now Zoetis), before taking a sabbatical to overland travel in Africa for several months in 2010. Lyndsay initially assisted AgriHealth in regulatory affairs, and is consequently primarily responsible for obtaining NZ vet medicine product registrations for numerous products AgriHealth is now marketing.

Lyndsay's roles at AgriHealth have ranged from providing technical advice to vet customers to leading the Company's marketing strategy and implementation. She is now responsible for the Rural Vet / Farm Animals business unit within AgriHealth, as well as working (alongside the Managing Director) in new product development to ensure the pipeline of new products keeps flowing.

AgriHealth's Technical and Regulatory Manager Laura Young has a wealth of relevant experience. She was Technical and Regulatory Manager for Elanco New Zealand for six years. Prior to that, Laura worked for seven years at Animal Health Morrinsville (now Anexa) primarily as a dairy cattle vet practitioner. During this period Laura assisted with bovine reproduction and mastitis trial projects led by Scott McDougall of Cognosco, and tutored cattle veterinarians around New Zealand as part of the DCV Bovine Ultrasound Pregnancy Diagnosis Roadshows. In addition, Laura is an Intelact Nutritional consultant.

Laura has also share-milked dairy cows in partnership with her husband on a Morrinsville farm, and they were finalists in Waikato Sharemilker of the Year several times.

In her role with AgriHealth, Laura acts in a Technical Advisor role to support NZ cattle vets in addition to leading Regulatory Affairs and local trialwork.

Steve graduated as a veterinarian from Massey University after completing a Bachelor of Science degree at Auckland University

He has over two decades of experience as a dairy practitioner having worked for the Veterinary Enterprises Group in the Waikato. Steve is well known to many in the profession for his roles as author and founder of the Leptosure programme, tutor of the DCV ultrasound roadshow and as a long-standing board member of the Veterinary Professional Insurance Society.

Steve’s focus over the last 6 years has been on mastitis management. He helped to establish PureMilk and was a senior mastitis consultant with a focus on farmer education. Steve has been involved in tutoring mastitis management to many industry groups, he is a tutor for the advanced mastitis course and a member of the national mastitis advisory council.

Steve is based in the Waikato and has joined the AgriHealth team as a technical vet with a focus on veterinary education.

Gregor Botha joined AgriHealth as a Technical Manager to help and support pig and poultry customers, and is based in Hamilton.

His knowledge of the poultry and pig industry is supported by a Bachelor of Science Degree in Animal production along with decades of experience within the industry.  

From 2007 until late 2020 Gregor held senior roles within feed and premix manufacturing within New Zealand.   Prior to emigrating to New Zealand he held nutrition, technical sales and key account management roles in South Africa.  

Gregor's combination of feed manufacturing and nutrition expertise together with a passion for healthy and efficient animal production bring an added dimension to AgriHealth's team and their commitment to New Zealand agriculture.

Maxine is AgriHealth’s Office Manager. Maxine has previously worked in similar roles, for both a large multinational and a smaller importing company, prior to joining AgriHealth.

Maxine gained a BSc (Hons) in Leicester and then spent several years working in London before emigrating to New Zealand in 2000.

Lyn Kehely is Agrihealth’s Marketing Manager, originally from Taranaki she grew up on dairy farm.  After returning from her OE in London and Switzerland, she spent many years in marketing roles working for FMCG companies such as Fonterra, Coca-Cola, Bell Tea and Vitaco.  Lyn’s most recent role was Product Marketing Manager at Fletcher Building developing strategic marketing campaigns.

She has a keen sense of adventure, after a recent mountain climbing expedition to Nepal, where she had time to reflect on what she was truly passionate about, after seeing so many animals living in terrible conditions, she realised she wanted her passion for animals, to translate into a career in animal health.

Ravi joined AgriHealth in March 2019. He has 10 years of experience working for animal health and agriculture businesses in New Zealand and across Asia-Pacific regions. He previously held business management, technical sales and marketing, and product research positions. Ravi has extensive experience working with farmers, farming businesses and food producers nationally and internationally.

He has an overseas Bachelor of Science degree in biotechnology and Postgraduate Diploma in Bioscience Enterprise from the University of Auckland.

Ravi's interest in agriculture started when he was growing up on small dairy and poultry farm in India. This interest translated into a career in the agribusiness sector. He is passionate about bringing innovative and tested solutions to improve farm performance, profitability, and sustainability.

Kyle Shepherd is AgriHealth’s NZ Sales Manager. Kyle is well known within the veterinary medicines industry and has spent his career working in or with vet clinics. He started in vet nursing before moving to customer services at Bomac where he developed a passion for delivering outstanding customer service. A stint as an account manager for NVS/Provet followed. Then Kyle took on another challenge, a technical selling role for Bomac (now Bayer) where he worked for nearly a decade. Kyle is an experienced, well liked and respected sales person with a proven track record.

Kyle recognises AgriHealth’s success in technically challenging markets like reproductive hormones, antibiotics & livestock vaccines. He believes AgriHealth’s top reputation is all about great people, outstanding technical support and investment in local trial work to support the products and solutions they offer.

In addition to managing the sales activities of the AgriHealth team, Kyle is the local sales area representative for Northland and South Auckland surrounds.

Based in Christchurch, Paul Dwyer is the Key Account Manager for AgriHealth’s pig and poultry customers, and also is responsible for AgriHealth's rural veterinary medicines in North Canterbury, Marlborough, Nelson, and the West Coast.

He has extensive experience in the rural sector through previous South Island based roles with Tegel, NRM, and Elanco.

Paul also brings significant technical knowledge to the role, with an agricultural science degree from Massey University, and a diploma in nutrition.

Paul's combination of technical expertise, sales experience and passion for the production animal sector mean he is very well regarded by local rural vets as well pig and poultry customers.

Shally (Michelle) lives in Morrinsville, where she and her husband sharemilk 340 cows. Shally commenced Vet Nursing at 16 years of age, and worked in several mixed animal practices in the Waikato and also in the UK. In the past five years Shally also undertook Large Animal Technician work and a Vet Practice Management role, and helped grow the practice into previously untapped markets.

Shally has a very good understanding of dairy farming, having reared thousands of calves and milked cows on many occasions. Shally was also an LIC AB Technician in the Waikato for a decade, and is one of only five approved goat AB Technicians in New Zealand. Her spare time is spent with her two daughters and husband, travelling and horses.

Louis Nijman is the Area Sales Manager for the Lower North Island where he is responsible for AgriHealth’s vet customers.

Louis has tertiary qualifications as a Veterinary Technician along with a Bachelor in Animal Husbandry which he gained in his homeland of The Netherlands.

Rachael Powell is the Area Sales Manager for the lower South Island. She is responsible for supporting AgriHealth’s portfolio in rural vet practices from Darfield to Invercargill.

Rachael has a Bachelor of Science and Technology (BScTech) from Waikato University. She has 15 years’ experience in sales within the Animal Health sector having previously worked for Pfizer, Novartis and MSD.

Rachael and her husband live near Dunedin on a ‘lifestyle farm’. One of Rachael’s recent hobbies is breeding full blood Wagyu Beef of which saw her spend time in America to be trained in embryo transfer that she has put into practice on her own animals.

Currently recruiting for full time role based in Canterbury.

Covering Canterbury / West Coast / Marlborough / Nelson / Tasman

Potential applicants may email or call Sales Manager Kyle Shepherd  in confidence, or apply via Seek