Forbes Elworthy - CEO

Coming from a family who farmed Craigmore Station in New Zealand for five generations, owning farms himself, being a parent and being concerned about practical responses to global warming, Forbes decided in 2008 to launch Craigmore Sustainables. His idea was to combine his interests in finance, in agriculture and in improving the environment.

Forbes was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford and obtained an MBA at Harvard. He 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 and family live in Oxfordshire in the United Kingdom. His interests are in New Zealand farming (www.craigmore.co.nz), 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.

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.