Ivan Velasco is a graduate of Lleida University (Spain) with a MSc (Agronomy engineering – fruit growing, horticulture and landscaping) and Wageningen University (The Netherlands) with a MSc (Plant Science).

After 10 years working in fruit cooperatives as a fruit agronomist in Spain, Ivan moved to the UK to work for FAST and since 2019 has been working as a BASIS and FACTS qualified Fruit Agronomist with Hutchinsons.