I work with food and produce businesses on the energy, input, logistics, and packaging challenges sitting underneath their operational and commercial pressures. I find the partnership structure or financing model that makes change viable, and build the internal capability to see it through.
As Sustainability and Environmental Manager at T&G Global, New Zealand's largest vertically integrated horticultural exporter, I structured a land for energy partnership converting organic waste into renewable biogas annually, permanently insulating the business from rising gas and carbon costs.
Led a multi site CAPEX program delivering verified energy savings across 16 sites in 12 months, by embedding ownership at the operational level so site managers tracked improvements themselves.
Introduced New Zealand's first fiber based tomato punnets, navigating cool chain integrity, retailer specifications, and sustainability requirements, at no cost increase.
As Head of Sustainability at Zespri International, a four billion dollar global kiwifruit exporter, I commissioned a global feasibility study uncovering structural barriers across the value chain, led cross-functional leaders to validate a 30 percent emissions reduction, and catalyzed an Asia based shipping partner to invest in low emissions fuels within 12 months.
Designed and secured New Zealand's first Sustainability-Linked Loan in horticulture, structuring the interest rate against commitments the business needed to meet for retailers and regulators, and embedding sustainability performance into senior leader incentives.
I design and deliver the tools, frameworks, and peer learning experiences that move producers, processors, and supply chain partners from awareness to investment. I start from a deep understanding of the operational and financial reality of the people closest to the work, and solve for that.
Built the kiwifruit industry's first orchard electrification pathway and orchard level return-on-investment calculator at Zespri International, in partnership with Rewiring Aotearoa, shifting growers from skepticism to capital investment.
Led the industry's first Sustainability Grower Tour, taking landowners and operational managers to visit producers in other sectors who had already made regenerative transitions, resulting in direct investment in new machinery and funding within months.
Co-designed and delivered XLabs, a structured cross sector program for businesses to diagnose root causes blocking circular and climate solutions, prototype interventions, and design pathways to implementation, with 88 percent of participating organizations implementing change within 12 months.
XLabs was selected by SB COP30 as one of only 48 climate solutions worldwide, chosen from more than 600 submissions, and the only solution selected from Aotearoa New Zealand.
Supply chain development, innovation, and program roles inside food businesses, distributors, and industry bodies, and consulting engagements where the commercial problem is clear but the industry, organization, or value chain is stuck.
Active collaborations and bodies of work I am leading or co-leading. Each asks me to find and activate leverage points in food and fiber systems.
A strategic platform that begins with a white paper turning a decade of New Zealand specific research into a decision making tool for boardrooms, ministers' offices, and everyday people. I lead the food system chapter EAT, Designing a Food System That Works for Farmers, Families, and Export Markets.
Learn more on LinkedIn →A network of next generation food and fiber leaders. I am a board member, and leading their first international study tour, from Dundee to Groundswell, June 2026, visiting the farmers, producers, researchers, and processors taking risks and building resilience through regenerative practices.
Join the Network and See the Route →Contracted to clarify and articulate the structure of the Summits and Collective, turning complex relational work into language that is legible, coherent in purpose, and fundable so the network can be more intentional in how it deepens and grows its impact.
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