Ewan Lamont

With a proven track record of building and operating agri-businesses around the world, Ewan specializes in identifying, investing in and driving new business opportunities to re-imagine global food and agriculture.

He has expertise in a wide range of production systems – from Indian smallholder to Argentinian mega-farm – testing and harnessing new technologies at scale to boost yields, build soil health and enable sustainable, resilient and tech-enabled supply chains. He is a strong advocate of regenerative agriculture and has worked with many global consumer brands and governments to drive agriculture sustainability and paddock to plate initiatives.

At Indigo, Ewan manages the Sustainability business unit which enables farmers to monetize practice changes they make on their farms. Working with local agribusinesses and downstream partners, Indigo offers the largest and longest-running Scope 3 and carbon farming programs, founded on a suite of patented technologies and industry-leading quantification algorithms.

Prior to joining Indigo, Ewan was Chief Operating Officer of Myanma Awba, the leading agriculture group in Myanmar, based in Yangon. He has also held various commercial leadership roles around the world with large agribusiness Syngenta with Global HQ, regional and country positions.

Ewan started his career in the finance world, driving cross-border M&A and corporate advisory engagements for blue-chip companies seeking to enter the Chinese market. This included target screening, valuation, due diligence and deal-making, concluding with a number of successful foreign acquisitions of Chinese companies.

Ewan holds an MA from Cambridge University in the UK and an MBA from INSEAD. He has lived and worked across Asia Pacific, Latin America and Europe and moved to the US in 2017 to join Indigo. He is based in Boston, Massachusetts.