Philip B Farrelly

B.Comm.(Int.), M.Acc, FCA, CTA, CFA

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Philip is a managing partner with Farrelly Mitchell and has consulted on several agribusinesses, food and beverage assignments across Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and internationally including large-scale farming operations, commodity logistics and trading, meat and poultry processing, dairy, milling, packaged food, food processing and distribution sectors.

He has led numerous complex and demanding commercial and technical due diligence, business valuation/modelling and evaluation mandates across the primary processing, agri-food trading, corporate farming, milling, food processing and distribution/logistics sectors with a combined value in excess of US$3 billion.

Prior to joining Farrelly Mitchell, Philip trained and worked as a manager with the international consulting firm PwC in Ireland and the United States.

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