Company

Kevin is the co-founder and chief executive of Nui. He is an experienced financial markets professional with a background in brokering and foreign exchange trading. A highly motivated entrepreneur, Kevin has a deep understanding of international trading markets, combined with experience in all aspects of business leadership, people management and strategic direction. Prior to co-founding Cream Trading and establishing the Nui platform, Kevin held a number of senior leadership roles with OMFinancial and Tuatara Management Ltd.

By working closely with Nui’s customers to intimately understand their business imperatives, Rebecca and Nui’s technical team define, refine and deliver platform improvements to meet their customers’ operational requirements. Prior to joining Nui Rebecca led business transformation initiatives for a number of large organisations across a variety of business sectors including the finance, electricity, telecoms and FMCG verticals.

Monique is an experienced Chartered Accountant with a history of working in CA practice, Financial services, Ecommerce, Media and Telecommunications industries in both New Zealand and Europe. Monique more recently worked at NZME as their Finance Manager for Operations and prior to that worked in the UK for eBay and PayPal working as their Accounting Manager and later, Finance Manager for the EU. A strong finance professional skilled in Budgeting, Forecasting, Planning, Business Partnering, Accounting and Management.

Marc has over 15 years’ experience in the commodity futures markets, having worked for commodity trading advisors (CTA’s), commodity systems traders and hedge funds in New Zealand, Australia and Switzerland.

Marc was a member of the founding team of Cream Trading as their Business Development Director, and has recently re-joined Nui Markets from a short stint working on other projects both in New Zealand and abroad.

Marc has a Bachelor of Business degree with a double major in finance and management.

Venessa has 30 years of experience in business with competencies across a range of disciplines including, consulting, management, project management, business analysis and environmental management. Venessa is passionate about sustainability and committed to working with business to find genuine and practical solutions to environmental, social, and governance impacts. She has a certificate in Environment Management and is a member of IEMA and is currently working towards her Master of Professional Practice (MPP) with Capable NZ at Otago Polytechnic.

Mike is a Hawke’s Bay based farmer and company director with a strong background in international markets and trade from his various governance roles in agribusiness.

Mike is well connected across the New Zealand farming and exporting sector and has a deep appreciation for the world of international trade, rapidly changing consumer habits, and B2B marketing models.

Mike has spent the past 6 years as New Zealand’s Special Agricultural Trade Envoy, a role which he finishes at the end of this month. In this role, Mike has travelled extensively to advocate for open markets and promote international trade.

Mike currently has independent governance roles with ANZCO Foods Limited, Kelso Genetics Limited and Totally Vets Limited. He sits on the advisory committee of Dryland Carbon and holds a cluster of directorships in farming in the East Coast region.

Bruce is a co-founder of Nui. He is an experienced entrepreneur who has overseen the design and development of many software and electronic hardware projects. Bruce has a PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Auckland.

David is a chartered accountant, professional director, venture capital investor and expert forensic witness. He is the chair of KODE Biotech, Rialto Distribution and a Trustee of the NZ Arts Foundation, and has previously served on the boards of Konnect Net NZ, Lifestream International and Rex Bionics. David started the Rialto Cinemas chain and the Sky Arts channel, while co-owning Sky’s Rialto Channel, and is a noted philanthropist and supporter of New Zealand business.

Duncan has over 40 years’ experience in the global agribusiness sector in New Zealand, Australia and the United States. He has extensive experience in commodity trading, risk management, global food sales, brand management, R&D, greenfield start-ups, M&A, restructuring and governance. Duncan is a director of NZ Dairy Goats Limited, Intergrain, and Hodder and Taylor, and was founding shareholder and a past director of Open Country Cheese Ltd.

Ian is the Global Head of Agribusiness at KPMG where he leads KPMG’s consumer/industrial markets and agribusiness activity, providing a wide range of audit engagements across various primary sector industries. He is a leading expert in the agricultural business sector, with a deep understanding in how technical innovation and current market forces will shape agricultural initiatives moving forward. Ian regularly provides insights into upcoming agribusiness trends for numerous international media outlets.

Paul joins Nui after a 20-year career at Fonterra, where he held a wide variety of key senior leadership roles, both in New Zealand and the United States. Paul was one of the founding creators of Global Dairy Trade where he played an integral role in the radical change to the way dairy products are traded across the globe. As Director of GDT, he oversaw GDT’s sustained growth, from a start-up business in 2008 to one that trades up to USD 5 billion in dairy commodities annually. Prior to running GDT, Paul was involved in commodity sales, both as a USA based Key Account Manager and also as the Product Manager for Fonterra’s protein portfolio.

Jeppe is a strong sales professional with extensive knowledge of the European dairy trade industry and expertise in sales, logistics and primary industries. Prior to joining Nui, Jeppe was a key accounts manager at Arla Foods where he played a key role in developing and implementing the Arla Cheese online trading platform. Jeppe has a Marketing Management degree at the Business Academy in Aarhus.

Ashley has more than 15 years' experience in commodities, foreign exchange trading and treasury risk management. Prior to joining Nui in 2018, Ashley worked on financial markets projects with some of the world's largest corporations in both New Zealand and the United States including BNP Paribas, Ball Corporation, and Barclays Capital. Ashley has an economics degree from Arizona State University. When he is not focusing on developing Nui’s strategic business partnerships across North America, Ashley is an ultra marathon runner and has competed in a number of events in the US.

Joe is the most recent addition to the Nui team.  Joe has a rich understanding of the US dairy landscape with extensive academic and professional experience in macro speculative trading and commodity market risk. Before joining Nui, he held senior positions at Rabobank (VP, Markets, Commodities), Stable (Director, Commodity Sales), and Starbucks (Senior Treasury Analyst, FX & Commodity Risk Management). Joe’s commercial acumen and his relationships within the US dairy sector put him in an excellent position to introduce buyers and sellers of dairy in the US to Nui Markets North America.

Jonathan has more than 17 years of experience in food and value add ingredients. Coming from Auckland, New Zealand, with a degree in Chemical & Materials Engineering and a Masters in Dairy Science & Technology, Jonathan started his career in the Dairy industry working for Fonterra Group Cooperative.

While at Fonterra Jonathan worked across the globe in technical and commercial capacities spending time in the Americas, North Asia, China, South East Asia and Europe.

In 2014 Jonathan, with his wife and 3 children, relocated to Minneapolis, Minnesota, to join the leadership team of Rembrandt Foods. Jonathan headed up the Marketing, Optimization & Innovation teams for Rembrandt Foods. Rembrandt Foods is one of the largest egg ingredient companies in the world and offers egg-based proteins, lipids and nutrition products.

In early 2018 Jonathan joined the Darigold Inc. team in Seattle where he led Darigold’s Global Ingredients Business Unit, creating a fully integrated, end to end business, selling over 800m lbs of products across the global generating $1.5b in revenue and opening offices in Singapore, Shanghai, Dubai, and Mexico City.

In May 2020 Jonathan joined Nui Markets. With his deep dairy and commodity knowledge of the US and global dairy market, he aims to advance Nui’s value proposition and bring US suppliers onto the platform that is the further of commodity transactions.

Jonathan has a passion for leadership and driving transparency. He believes that people, process, products and profitability are the path to business success.

René is a customer-focused director of people, projects, sales and business developments. He has a strong track record in software development, trading platforms, commodity trading and risk management.

He started his career in risk management and analysis systems for derivative traders, then later moved to Euronext, where he was responsible for agricultural commodities trading. From there, he worked as the regulator for financial markets in the Netherlands to supervise the markets for commodity-related investment objects. He continued his career in the financial sector with various senior commercial and business development roles. Recently René worked for a Price Reporting Agent setting up a range of dairy indices and dashboards that are now widely used for benchmarking and price reference.

All this makes René very well equipped to drive the growth of DAO further. He’s very excited to take the end responsibility to grow the number of customers, trades and volumes on the DAO platform to benefit its users further.

Anthony joins us as the new European Sales Manager. Before joining Nui Markets, Anthony's experience includes being an International trader at Ingredients Brokers International and European Commercial Manager at Bdairy, responsible for developing new markets across Europe, South East Asia & Africa.

Joanna is passionate about everything digital. She started as a freelancer in the Philippines and came to New Zealand to study and pursue digital marketing. With experience in web content development, social media management, market research and developing marketing strategies, she is keen to see what the future brings for Nui.

Dion heads the development of the back-end and infrastructure of the Nui platform and is responsible for ensuring the business logic is robustly implemented. His background is in the scoping, design and development of web-based big data software. He has had a varied career with companies specializing in mobile data technologies and GPS tracking systems. This included a technical role in the RNZN with responsibility for information and communications systems. Dion brings a wealth of experience to Nui.

Bianca has a lengthy background in testing trading and banking software. She is experienced in automation testing and has a thorough understanding of SDLC. Bianca is an expert practitioner on the Nui Markets Platform and is ultimately responsible for the platform’s quality assurance. She has a B.E. in Computers and a Diploma in Business Intelligence.

Alex joined Nui in 2016 as a full stack developer. Now specialising in front end development, Alex leads the feature development for our tender module. He enjoys a challenge and is known for implementing novel solutions. He has particular interests in AI and cyber security. Outside of Nui, Alex takes interest in maths and physics and has many technical hobbies such as electronics and robotics.

Wim is Nui’s brand and user interface designer and is in charge of developing the design and usability aspects of the platform. Wim has more than 20 years’ experience in traditional print design, digital design and front-end development. Originally from the Netherlands, he was responsible for the Dutch-e-commerce branch of Yves Rocher. Before joining Nui, Wim worked with multiple clients across Europe and Australasia, including the Human Rights Commission and the Ministry of Pacific Island Affairs. He was also employed at Foster Moore International and worked on the design and development of their globally acclaimed electronic registration software.

Tim is a Senior Back-end Software Developer with a passion for creating modular, scalable and well tested software. He has extensive experience working with various startups in New Zealand including Grabone, PredictHQ, Devoli, etc. Tim has a degree in Computing and Mathematical sciences from Waikato, New Zealand.