About Us

Born and bred Wellingtonian, converted to an Aucklander, a keen sports follower having played rugby, rowed, played basketball etc in the past. Now a weekend warrior cyclist
 
Happily married for 36 years with two grownup children well and truly entrenched in Auckland with their own successful careers.
 
Involved in importing of chemicals and commodities for over 30 years and prior to joining OSP nearly 23 years ago, held roles as Wellington Branch manager and Chemicals Division Manager at a major chemical importer and distributor.
 
In recent times life has been about commodities centred on products of the oilseed and cereals processing industries sold to the food and animal feed industries.
 
Everything from high value food grade vegetable oils to wheat processing by-products encompass the current range of activities.

I grew up on the family farm in Te Pahu. After high school I got my Trade in Boat building at Tristram Boats before returning to the family farm. I became the 3rd generation to run the family farm for the next 14 seasons.

My passion in farming was to breed top quality cows and then to get them producing to their full potential.
I am still living on the farm with my wife and 2 children and still give any assistance to the running of the farm where possible.

My Hobbies are Coaching junior rugby which I have done and been apart of for the past 7 seasons. I also love fishing off Waikato’s west coast and the challenge of heading into the hills to hunt wild game.

I grew up on a sheep and beef farm south east of Te Awamutu.

After studying at Massey University I spent several years overseas, some of the most rewarding experiences were in South Africa where I ran a mango processing facility, and in Zambia, where I ran a team of 80 staff producing railway sleepers for Zambia Railways.

 After travelling, I came back to NZ and worked on the family farm, before moving to a large scale lamb/cattle finishing operation in the King Country, including running my own lease block. From there I spent the next 8 years managing an intensive drystock farm finishing 1100 bulls a year.

 I have grown up around dairy farming, and spent time working for local farmers.

 I am passionate about NZ agriculture in general, and enjoy building relationships with farmers and being a part of their progression.

 I now have 12 acres with which to farm, I spend most of my spare time with my family and occasionally get out on my dirt bike to do trail rides.

I’m a born and bred Southlander, brought up on a Sheep and beef Farm in Western Southland. Married to Debbie for 28 years with 2 adult boys.

I played Rugby, Badminton in my younger days, now it's an armchair sport.

My interests include Family, away with the Jetski, out on my Road bike touring around the lower part of the South Island, in particular, Central Otago a beautiful part of the South Island.

My work history is predominately in the Ag sector from Fertilizer 15 Years, FarmSource Retail 1 Year which set me up in sales in the dairy sector doing  Dairy Chemical 10 plus years.

I did a 6-month working holiday in Melbourne Australia in my early 20s which is a long time ago now.

I have found with my past work experience I have built a great rapport within the Southland Region.