BIOPOLYMER NETWORK - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Company Secretary
- Member of the Management Team
Anne is responsible for governance and compliance, however her skill set means she also works across a broad range of other areas within the company including marketing, external communication, reporting and contracts.
Job Titles:
- Legal Counsel
- Member of the Management Team
Barbara is a lawyer with many years' experience in research, development and intellectual property in the science sector. She obtained her BSc at the University of Alberta followed by a law degree. Barbara is all about practical legal solutions to add value to the business. Barbara provides advice across a wide field of commercial matters with information technology, intellectual property and corporate governance being strong areas of expertise.
David has an educational background in synthetic organic chemistry, and industrial experience in dairy related process development and process engineering. He is an independent technical consultant and has worked closely with the BPN for several years helping to scale up and test our ZealaFoam process.
Job Titles:
- Chief
- Member of the Management Team
- Technical Manager
Heena holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from the University of Auckland. She has had over 10 years' experience in Personal and Homecare product development working with well-established NZ companies. She takes great pride in seeing products through from conception to commercialisation especially products that are good for health and the environment.
With her technical background and strong focus on quality, she expects to optimise manufacturing process to produce consistently high quality sustainable products.
Job Titles:
- Group General Manager Science Services, the NZ Institute for Plant & Food Research Ltd
Background
Jolon has over 17 years' experience in various roles focused on people and science leadership, including the roles of Science Group Leader (Food & Bio-Based Products) and Associate Research Director, Capability at AgResearch. Professor Dyer has also gained significant national and international recognition for his science achievements, specialising in the development of redox proteomics approaches to understanding and controlling protein modification and damage.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Management Team
- Production Manager
Having recently graduated from Unitec with a Bachelors in Production Design, Joseph brings the skills of problem solving and most of all, hard work. Always curious as a child about how to help the Earth and the people in it, Joseph realizes that ZealaFoam has the potential to be something sustainable for the whole world and believes that we can make a difference if we try.
Job Titles:
- Group General Manager - Technology Development, the New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Ltd
As Group General Manager of technology development at the New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Ltd, Kieran is involved in aligning the majority of New Zealand's horticultural/arable breeding. Kieran's governance experience includes a Ministerial appointment on the Authority of the Environmental Risk Management Agency NZ and more recently several plant based companies both in NZ and overseas.
Background
Kieran has had a diverse science career to date, with a background that includes a lectureship at the University of Durham in the UK, and commercial research with a subsidiary of Fonterra. In that time he has worked in cancer research, microbiology and plant molecular/breeding biology, working for a time in metabolic engineering of plants for bioplastics production.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Management Team
- Operations Manager
Sally is BPN's extremely capable Office Manager a role which encompasses a multitude of tasks both operational and administrative across a team of scientists spread from Auckland to Christchurch along with extensive customer engagement here in New Zealand and internationally.
Sally's role encompasses a multitude of tasks both operational and administrative as well as co-ordinating EcoBeans customer enquiries and orders.
Job Titles:
- CEO
- Member of the Management Team
- CEO of Biopolymer
Sarah Heine has been the CEO of Biopolymer network for its journey from fundamental research to commercial production. She is passionate about the world of bioplastics and the opportunity to drive change and is excited about the company's potential to offer new materials to enable more sustainable packaging choices as we continue to develop new products. From a background in forestry and accounting, she brings experience in problem solving, logistics, accounting and management.
Job Titles:
- Agresearch Ltd, Deputy CEO, Commercial Partnerships
Stuart is responsible for broad commercial activity, a role he commenced in late 2017.