Archives: Staffs

Steve Yung

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Steve joined the Sealord Board in 2021, after serving as CEO from 2014 to 2020. Steve is also Chair of Sealord’s joint venture, Australian Longline. Steve has spent more than 40 years in the food/primary industry sector, occupying Senior Executive roles in Australia, Canada and New Zealand. Prior to joining Sealord, he was Managing Director […]

Mark Clarkson

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Mark Clarkson joined the Sealord Board in 2017 following his retirement as Managing Director of ANZCO Foods, a position he held for 13 years. Mark has spent more than 40 years in the New Zealand meat industry occupying many roles in international business as well as serving on a number of primary sector organisation boards.

Glenn Hawkins

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Glenn is from Ngāti Whakaue and Ngāti Maniapoto and is committed to Māori business success.  He has held roles as advisor and governor of Māori post-settlement governance entities, land trusts, incorporations, commercial entities and service providers for over 25 years.  He has experience in a range of industries including agri-business, fisheries, forestry, horticulture, tourism and […]

Melissa Butler

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Melissa moved into the role of General Manager – Marketing from her previous position as Sealord’s Head of Marketing & Innovation.  Melissa continues to be responsible for the Innovation team and now both internal and external Communications. The remit of Sealord Marketing is global and the team plays a big part in helping the company […]

Stuart Yorston

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Stuart has had a 20 year career across marketing, working on FMCG and beer brands with Unilever and Lion in both New Zealand and Australia. He returned home from Sydney in 2002 and for nine years ran marketing and buying with The Warehouse including establishing their ecommerce business. Stu joined Sealord in 2012 to lead […]

Richard North

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Richard moved into the role of General Manager Systems and Supply Chain from his previous position as Sealord’s Sales and Operations (S&OP) Planning Manager. The Supply Chain function involves overseeing the distribution and storage of products, procurement, customer service and demand/supply planning to ensure maximum returns from Sealord’s catch (S&OP).  The IT function at Sealord […]

Gary Neill

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Gary has a 25 year career with extensive general and financial management experience across several industries and with multi-national corporations, public companies, private equity-owned companies and in start-up environments. Previously Gary was the CFO of Tegel Foods Limited, New Zealand’s market leading fully integrated poultry producer. Prior to this he served as CFO at telecommunications […]

Jason Plato

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Jason Plato has been at Sealord for more than 20 years. Initially based in Nelson, Jason moved to Japan where he opened the Sealord office and ran Sealord’s North Asian business for six years. From there, Jason moved to the US where he was the General Manager of Sealord’s North American operations for seven years. […]

Rui Ventura

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Rui Ventura is Sealord’s General Manager of Operations. His role has a significant part to play in Sealord’s strategy of Operational Excellence through ensuring the effective utilisation of deep sea factory vessels, land-based processing plants and maximising the return from the company’s allocated quota assets. Rui joined Sealord with 20 years’ experience in the fishing […]

Dawn Cooper

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Dawn moved into the General Manager – Human Resources role after seven years with Sealord as Human Resource Manager across different aspects of the business.  Dawn is accountable for all aspects of human resources for Sealord in New Zealand and Australia, with a significant role in the Sealord strategy of People. With over 20 years’ […]