After 12 years with Fonterra, that culminated in leading the Global Foodservice Business, Paul is leading the charge at NZ Functional Foods, establishing and commercialising a future plant based beverage eco-system in the South Island. Born and raised on a dairy farm in the Hauraki Plains (Ngatea), Paul Harvey remains deeply passionate about maximising value for food and beverage industries of New Zealand, with a key focus on looking at how value can be created through disruptive thinking that will meet the needs of the consumer, today and tomorrow. He sees the importance of reducing waste, both for businesses and the sustainability of Aotearoa’s vibrant food system. After returning from his time offshore and seeing the regression in our social, economic and environmental factors linked to our food system , Paul has a desire to contribute to recreating mana (pride) in our food system, to ensure we are leveraging our nations biggest natural asset, food from our land. Paul see’s a opportunity to bring his global, commercial and food skills into supporting the current board to enable the management team of NZFWC deliver against the aspiration of reducing food waste by 50%, by 2030.

Matt is the Sustainability Manager at Silver Fern Farms. He brings over 25 years of work experience across a variety of roles in the primary sector and has a very strategic understanding of food production systems from farm to plate and all the policy influences and wonderful people in between. There are so many passionate people and projects underway across Aotearoa, all with a love of food and a deep commitment to a sustainable future. There is a real opportunity through the Food waste champions network and the Kai commitment to support this significant momentum towards a zero food waste goal, bringing scale, active collaboration and innovation to each of these projects, supporting those who are leading them and building an enduring systems based approach to valuing our collective love of food.

Sandy Botterill started her career as an environmental lawyer and has an extensive background in strategy, transformation and change. Sandy leads Foodstuffs ESG strategy "HereforNZ" and prior to that she was working as the Circular Economy Lead helping Aotearoa to adopt circular economy principles for plastic in Aotearoa, working closely with industry and the Ministry for the Environment on this programme of work. Sandy is passionate about ESG and sustainability – people, planet and prosperity. She is keen to make as big an impact as possible for people, and leave a positive impact on the environment. Sandy has a Masters in Environmental Law with Honours and Post Graduate Diploma in Business from University of Auckland.

Andrew was, recently awarded the 2019 SBN Sustainability Superstar Award. He founded EcoStock over 13years ago, which is New Zealand's largest commercial food recovery and reuse business, with a national network supporting over 140 businesses. In 2019 Ecostock joined forces with Pioneer Energy to create the Ecogas Limited Partnership. Ecogas will support Auckland Councils 2021 roll-out of household foodwaste collection, providing the processing capability for the next 20 years, which will include the production of biofuels and bio-fertilisers. Andrew has represented NZ at the APEC Food Loss and Waste Conference in Tokyo.