Reuben Holmes, Technical Trainee, Aviagen South Africa

Reuben Holmes is a Technical Manager Trainee, based at the Aviagen South Africa GGP farm. He previously worked as Technical Coordinator for the Irvine’s Group, distributor of Cobb in Africa, during which time he was also enrolled as an MSc Poultry Nutrition student at the University of Pretoria. Reuben received a BSc degree in Animal Sciences from the University of Pretoria. His experience has been primarily with Parent Stock husbandry in the Sub Saharan African and West African regions visiting farms, collecting, analyzing and reporting on farm data and maintaining technical communications with clients. Reuben believes there is much scope for growth in the poultry sector in Africa with many countries already having taken big steps forward in commercialising poultry production. There, is however, a lot of work yet still to do and he is happy to be part of the Aviagen team who he believes will help take poultry production to the next level in Africa.