Forbes Elworthy - CEO

Coming from a family who farmed in New Zealand for five generations, owning farms himself, being a parent and being concerned about practical responses to global warming, Forbes Elworthy decided in 2008 to launch Craigmore Sustainables.

His idea was to combine his interests in finance, in agriculture and in improving the environment. Craigmore Sustainables' first major fund is Craigmore Forestry, with a particular focus on New Zealand carbon forestry. This fund will invest in plantation forests, both growing valuable timber and earning carbon offsets for sequestering carbon dioxide.

Previously, Forbes worked as a research analyst at Goldman Sachs and as a credit trader at Merrill Lynch, heading a convertibles trading desk. He subsequently founded a financial software company called Credit Market Analysis, which he sold to Chicago Mercantile Exchange in 2008, returning 600% to investors.

Forbes was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford and obtained an MBA at Harvard Business School. He lives in Oxfordshire with his family. His interests are in New Zealand farming, financial software and sustainable investments. He is currently learning to play polo.

Reg Brown - Chief Administrative Officer

Reg joined Craigmore Sustainables as Chief Administrative Officer in early 2010. His role at Craigmore includes managing investor relationships and being responsible for business support and development.

Prior to joining Craigmore, Reg spent eleven years from 1988 at NatWest Markets' Global Structured Finance division where he rose to Assistant Director. He then served Bank of America's Capital Markets Strategies division from 1999 to 2009. In his position there as Principal, Reg focused on originating, structuring and executing cross-border, structured financing solutions.

A keen footballer in his spare time, Reg has a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Management Studies obtained from King's College, University of London.

Ché Charteris

In 2003 Ché obtained an MA (Hons) degree in development geography from the University of Otago, New Zealand.

Since then, he has worked for a range of New Zealand government departments. His specific experience has been in infrastructure funding and charging policy for the Ministry of Transport, environmental management for the Department of Conservation, telecommunications competition regulation for the Commerce Commission and international trade and co-operation for the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.

Ché also has practical experience in forestry and agriculture, and a personal interest in responsible economics.