Ken Boyns

Ken has spent his entire career in agriculture, with experience of practical farming and agricultural banking giving him a good grounding in the practicalities and business side of farming.

He joined the Milk Development Council (MDC) in 2001 to set up a market information service and, in February 2007, became the Chief Executive of MDC. He managed the organisation through to it becoming DairyCo, now known as AHDB Dairy. Ken became AHDB Market Intelligence Director in November 2010 – managing the economics, insight, benchmarking and data services across AHDB in a matrix structure.

In September 2016, he was appointed Chief Finance and Operations Officer. Ken acted as Interim CEO from April to August 2021 and was appointed Divisional Director for Services in September 2021.

Ken lives in Warwickshire with his family and was educated at Cambridge University.