Key Personnel - Head Office

Peter D Clark, Chief Executive
B.For.Sc. (Hons) (NZ), NZIF Registered Forestry Consultant

Director, PF Olsen Group Limited
Director, PF Olsen Nursery Ltd
Director, WQI Ltd

Forester with over 30 years experience in plantation forest establishment, silviculture and management. Specialist in temperate and tropical plantation forest management, financial analysis, forest valuation and project implementation, quality systems and forestry business management.

e-mail: peter.clark@pfolsen.com

Peter A Keach, Operations Manager
B.Sc. (Microbiology) (NZ), B.For.Sc. (NZ), NZIF Registered Forestry Consultant

Director, PF Olsen Nursery Ltd
Director, Future Forests Research Ltd

Over 30 years experience in NZ plantation forest consultancy, management and harvesting. Specialist in management systems, financial evaluations, forest evaluations and forestry leases on Maori land.

e-mail: peter.keach@pfolsen.com

Peter Weblin, Marketing Manager
B.For.Sc (Hons) (NZ), MBA

Director, PF Olsen Group Limited

Forester with over 25 years experience in forestry, harvesting and product utilisation. Specialist skills in yield forecasting, harvest scheduling, marketing, forest engineering and inventory.

e-mail: peter.weblin@pfolsen.com

Barry Murphy,  Commercial Manager

Director, PF Olsen Group Limited

B For Sc, B Comm

Over 25 years experience, specialising in forestry investment analysis and resource planning.

e-mail: barry.murphy@pfolsen.com

Brian V Travers, Company Accountant

B.Comm. (NZ), Dip Teaching (NZ)

Over 25 years experience in financial accounting, economic and financial analysis, cost accounting, feasibility studies for industrial afforestation projects and Resource Management matters.

e-mail: brian.travers@pfolsen.com

Dr Wei-Young Wang, International Investment Manager

PhD, Plant Pathology

Forestry scientist and plant pathologist with over 25 years experience in plant pathology, research and forestry practice in USA and Taiwan. Extensive knowledge of New Zealand forestry investment opportunities and facilitation, particularly for Mandarin speaking investors.

e-mail: wei-young.wang@pfolsen.com

Nick (Nicolaas) Steens, Health & Safety and Quality Manager

20 years experience in the forest industry, formulating and implementing quality and health and safety systems.

e-mail: nic.steens@pfolsen.com

Kit (Christopher) Richards, Environmental Manager

NZ Certificate in Forestry,  B For Sc

Forester with over 25 years experience, covering environmental and operational planning and management, financial management, quality systems and human resource management.

e-mail: kit.richards@pfolsen.com

Grant Alexander, ICT Manager

M.For.Sc., Dip Business Studies (Marketing)

Development and application of forest management information systems, including integration of physical and financial information and cost analysis.

e-mail: grant.alexander@pfolsen.com

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