Andrew Fenton, President and Chairman of Directors
Phone 07 573 8698
Mobile 0274 930 123
+ profile Roles in Industry:
- President, NZ Fruitgrowers’ Federation
- Chairman, NZ Fruitgrowers’ Charitable Trust
Business:
Bay of Plenty kiwifruit and avocado grower for 35 years
- Director, Market Gardeners Ltd
- Director, La Manna Group Ltd (Aust)
Brian Gargiulo, (M.B.E.) Vice President and Director
Telephone: 03 359 9687
Mobile: 021 245 7990
+ profile Roles in Industry:
President, Vegetable & Potato Growers Federation
Business:
- Canterbury greenhouse tomato grower for 37 years
- Chairman, Market Gardeners Ltd
- Director, La Manna Group Ltd, Verona Fruit and the Australian Banana Company (Aust)
- Director, AMI Insurance
- Council member, Lincoln University
- Board member, Lincoln Ventures & Lincoln Hospitality
Terry Olsen, Director
Telephone: 06 362 7499
Mobile: 0274 742 022
+ profile Roles in Industry:
- Member of the Interim Board of Potatoes New Zealand (Inc)
- Chairman of Potatoes New Zealand 2009 – 2011
- Past chair of the VegFed Potato Growers Group
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Business:
Potato grower and dairy farmer in Opiki, Manawatu and the Wairarapa
- Lead the World Potato Congress Christchurch management team in 2009
- Lead the establishment of The Chip Group
- Lead New Zealand initiatives for the United Nations Year of the Potato in 2008
David Kelly, Director
Mobile: 021 144 4365
+ profile Roles in Industry:
- Past executive member of the Kerikeri Fruit Growers Society
- Past executive member of NZ Kiwifruit Growers Incorporated (NZKGI)
- Inaugural member of the Kiwifruit Industry Advisory Council (IAC)
- Past NZ Kiwifruit Growers Incorporated Northland Representative (1996 to 2010)
- Current member of the ZESPRI Innovation Advisory Forum (responsible for the procurement of research and formerly the ZESPRI Innovation Board
Business:
Kiwifruit and mandarin grower in Kerikeri, Northland
- Director, Kiwi Gold Management Ltd
- Director, Orangewood Ltd
- Director, KFG
- Director, Kerikeri Irrigation Company
- Trustee, Orangewood Growers Trust
- Member of the ZESPRI Innovation Advisory Forum
STUDY
- Bachelor of Horticulture from Massey University
- Kellogg Rural Leadership Program
John Allen, Director
Phone 07 573 8177
Mobile 0274 827302
+ profile ROLES IN INDUSTRY
- Forum Member, NZKGI
- Forum Member of the Tauranga Toxic Agrichemical Advisory Forum
- Educate and Investigate Hi Cane issues for the Industry
BUSINESS
- Director, Kiwifruit New Zealand
- Member of Satara Grower Forum
- Agrecovery Trustee
- Director, Seasonal Man Power & Contracting Ltd
Andrew Fenton, President, Horticulture New Zealand
HortNZ vice president and former president of VegFed, Brian Gargiulo
HortNZ directors John Allen, Tony Ivicevich and Brian Gargiulo inspecting onions at Masters, Pukekawa
HortNZ director David Kelly
HortNZ chief executive Peter Silcock and director John Allen at a Bay of Plenty kiwifruit orchard
HortNZ director and tomato grower Tony Ivicevich
Professor of Food Marketing, David Hughes with Debbie Hewitt, HortNZ Conference 2008
HortNZ annual general meeting August 2010, Auckland
HortNZ director Julian Raine, fruit grower, Nelson
The HortNZ directors at the last board meeting held in the Huddart Parker Building in Wellington, April 2012
HortNZ president Andrew Fenton with 2012 Bledisloe Cup winner Con Van der Voort, fruit grower, Central Otago
HortNZ director Terry Olsen, potato grower, Manawatu
Debbie Hewitt, Director
Telephone: 06 858 7265
Mobile: 027 405 2882
+ profile Roles in Industry:
- Horticulture New Zealand Charitable Trust Director
- Horticulture New Zealand Nomination & Remuneration Committee
- Horticulture New Zealand Conference Advisory Committee Chair
- Horticulture Industry Vision $10b 2020 Taskforce Member
- Hawke's Bay Asparagus Grower Association Member
- Hawke's Bay Vegetable Grower Association Member
Business:
Commercial asparagus and seasonal vegetable grower, Hawke's Bay
- Professional Masters Degree majoring in Agribusiness Management, Lincoln University Executive Development Programme
- Graduate, FAME, Food & Agribusiness Market Experience
- Graduate, Institute of Directors Company Directors Course
- Graduate, Kellogg Rural Leadership Programme
Tony Ivicevich, Director
Telephone: 09 411 7252
Mobile: 021 769 018
+ profile Roles in Industry:
former Vice President and Secretary, Auckland Vegetable and Produce Growers’ Society
- Member Vegfed Council
- Chairman, Fresh Tomato Product Group for seven years
- Trustee, New Zealand Agrichemical Education Trust
- HortNZ representative, Agricultural and Veterinary Medicines Advisory Council
- Member, HortNZ Scholarships Committee
- Managing director, Vegetable Producers Publishing Co Ltd (Grower magazine)
- Trustee 5+ A Day Charitable Trust
- Executive member United Fresh Inc
Business:
Greenhouse tomato grower in Auckland for 25 years, citrus for 8 years
- Chairman, Horticentre
- Director, Beekist Ltd
- Director Tasman Crop Protection (2005) Ltd
Julian Raine, Director
Telephone: 03 547 5338
Mobile: 021 443993
+ profile Roles in Industry:
Pipfruit and berryfruit grower for 30 years in the Nelson region.
- Director, New Zealand Boysenberry Council
- Director, Nelson Seasonal Employers Inc
- Trustee, NZ Nuffield Farming Scholarship Trust
- Trustee, Massey Lincoln Agricultural Industry Trust
Business:
- Director, Wai-West Horticulture Ltd
- Chairman, Ngatahi Horticulture
- Director, Hinetai Hops Ltd
- Chairman, Berryfruit Export NZ Ltd
- Manager, Club Tentation New Zealand Ltd
- Director, Nelson Berryfruit Ltd
- Director, Cawthron Institute
- Director, NZ Hops Ltd
