Rows of green trellised grapevines stretching to a mountain range at golden-hour sunrise

About Cropsy

You'll find us in the rows, demoing with growers, and testing in real vineyards.

Hands dirty, boots on

Rory loading a scanner-fitted red buggy onto a trailer at a vineyard under a blue sky

Cropsy team and growers gathered in a winter vineyard, one holding a laptop, discussing scan results

Cropsy team showing scan data on a phone to a grower beside a vine-row scanner rig in a sunny vineyard

Leila driving a red buggy with a Cropsy scanner mounted on front through a vineyard, a dog standing nearby

Vineyard staff seated watching a Cropsy team member present the Osiris dashboard on a projector screen

Ali and Rory in green Cropsy shirts fitting an orange scanner unit to the front of a Fendt tractor

Rory in hi-vis standing beside a green tractor fitted with an orange Cropsy scanner on a front boom

Cropsy team member presenting Osiris on a monitor to vineyard workers in hi-vis orange around a table

Rory in hi-vis crouched servicing the open orange scanner camera box with its LED array on a vehicle mount

James giving a thumbs-up from a red side-by-side buggy mounted with an orange Cropsy scanner camera box

Rory driving a scanner-mounted red buggy through vine rows at sunset

Our team

Ali Alomari

CO FOUNDER | CEO

BE Hons. Computer Systems

Leila Deljkovic

CO FOUNDER | COO

BE Hons. Computer Systems

Winston Su

CO FOUNDER | Head of AI

BSc Hons. Mathematics & Computer Science

Rory Buchanan

CO FOUNDER | CTO

ME Hons. Mechatronics

Rex Sunde

Team Viticulture Advisor

Expert viticulturist, winegrower, and face behind NZ Winegrowers' Spray Schedule.

Rex is a third-generation New Zealand winegrower and a viticulture consultant. Over the last 25 years he has established his own wine brand, grapevine nursery and viticulture consulting business, and has become the face behind New Zealand Winegrowers’ Vineyard Spray Schedule.

He has been a board member for New Zealand Winegrowers, a member of the New Zealand Winegrowers research committee and an executive committee member for Organic Winegrowers New Zealand.

Sean Charleston

Embedded Systems Engineer

ME Hons. Electrical & Electronics

Charlie Gallop

Data Scientist

MSc Applied Data Science

James Wong

Software Engineer

BE Hons. Electrical & Electronics

Sebastian Dymanski

Software Engineer

GDipSc Computer Science

Our board

Chris van der Loo

Independent | Interim Chair

Head of NPD & Systems Engineering, Waikato Milking Systems

Michael Carr-Smith

Investor Representative

Chief Investment Officer, Move Asset Management

Michael is passionate about delivering superior returns and value for investors and partners. He has over 32 years of experience in international equities, spanning research, sales, and portfolio management. He started his career in Hong Kong, where he spent eight years covering Asian markets and sectors for JP Morgan and Barclays Capital. He then moved to New York, where he worked at JP Morgan & Barclays Capital, focusing on global equity markets.

Leila Deljkovic

CO FOUNDER | COO

BE Hons. Computer Systems

Leila is a computer systems engineer by training, and started Cropsy with co-founder Ali in 2019. She built the first prototypes and developed the technology with Ali to where it is today straight out of engineering school. Leila coordinates our multidisciplinary team to deliver the full value of Cropsy to growers. She also manages capital raising and investor relationships.

Ali Alomari

CO FOUNDER | CEO

BE Hons. Computer Systems

Ali is a computer systems engineer and started Cropsy with co-founder Leila in 2019. He built the first prototypes and developed the technology with Leila to where it is today straight out of engineering school. Ali is the technology lead and sales lead, and he spent the last 5 years immersed in vineyards and viticultural practices with growers from Blenheim to Bordeaux.

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