Oliver Roberts - Craigmore Forestry Advisory Board Member

Originally from the UK, Oliver is a practicing lawyer specialising in mergers, acquisitions and corporate finance transactions. Oliver is dual-qualified as both a Solicitor of England and Wales and a Barrister and Solicitor of New Zealand. Oliver is now based full-time in Christchurch, New Zealand and is a partner in trans-Tasman law firm Duncan Cotterill. Oliver acts as the Group Legal Counsel and also sits on the NZ Advisory Board to Craigmore Sustainables.

Oliver has broad sporting interests and depending on the season can be found in the mountains, in the sea or on his bike.

Vicki Buck - Craigmore Forestry Advisory Board Member

Vicki has an MA (Hons) degree in political science from Canterbury University, and an Honorary PhD in Commerce from Lincoln University.

She was elected to the Christchurch City Council at age 19, while at University and was elected Mayor of the City in 1989, standing down after nine years in the job.

She has a varied work background which includes everything from social work to politics, and serving as a member of the NZ Local Government Commission which undertook New Zealand’s major local government restructuring in the 1980s.

Vicki has chaired the Learning Discovery Trust which has set up two new schools, Discovery and Unlimited in the state education sector.

She has served on a wide range of boards and advisory committees, including the Reserve Bank, the Science and Innovation Advisory Council, Christchurch City Holdings and many others.

Concerned that governments are not acting fast enough on the issue of climate change, Vicki works in the clean tech and climate action areas. She is a director of NZ Windfarms Ltd, Aquaflow Bionomic, Carbonscape and Celsias.com, and was nominated by the Guardian in the UK in 2008 as one of the 50 people most likely to save the planet.

Mark Cox - Craigmore Forestry Advisory Board Member

16 years in Horticulture based around vegetable crops for fresh and factory supply.
Founder of Coxco group of companies which are an integrated supply chain for vegetables and fruit.
Bachelor of Agriculture Production Management, Massey University.





Jaap Rademaker - Advisory Board Member

Jaap obtained degrees in Law, Economics and Tax law at Universities of Utrecht, Amsterdam, Geneva, Cambridge and London. After specializing as an international tax lawyer focusing on financial instruments with Dutch law firm Loyens & Loeff, he joined Deutsche Bank in London in 1999 as a trader, developing and trading structured equity and fixed income products and solutions, mainly for financial institutions across Europe. He subsequently joined JPMorgan, heading a team focused on innovative structured products and solutions, and worked for Dresdner in London in a similar role.

Jaap enjoys finding new solutions in challenging situations by bridging barriers and applying structured finance technology. These can, for example, lower the cost of capital of carbon sequestration projects.

He has published articles in International Tax Review, Tax Notes International and The Judicature’s Journal. He speaks English, Dutch, German, French and Spanish. In his spare time, he enjoys sailing and flying small aircraft.