Board of Directors

Richard Townshend

Chairman

Richard lives on the Hauraki Plains and has several dairy farming interests.  Richard has invested in dairy farming operations in Canterbury, Missouri USA and the south of Chile. Additional to this he owns and runs a dairy farming supervisory business which oversees the daily operations of around 35 dairy units in the greater Waikato and also provides dairy consultancy services.  Richard is also a director on two large scale privately owned NZ based dairy farming businesses comprising 19,000 cows and is a former External Monetary Policy Advisor to the Reserve Bank.

Greg McCullough

Board Member

Greg McCullough is the Group Director, Food Safety, Health & Regulatory, at Fonterra.  His role is to define and lead the development and implementation of a comprehensive, ‘best in class’ approach to Food Safety & Quality and Health, Safety & Wellbeing across Fonterra globally.  Together with his team and the business units, Greg is responsible for building upon our culture in our journey to be the world’s most trusted source of dairy nutrition.

Greg previously held positions of Vice President Global Quality Management for Mead Johnson and lead a world class Food Safety and Quality organisation.  Prior to that held the Role of Director Quality and Food Safety Asia Pacific for Danone Baby Nutrition.  Over his career he has established an enviable reputation as one of the industry’s most influential leaders in the field of Food Safety & Quality.  Greg is a chemist with a strong micro background.  Greg comes from a family with strong interests in dairy farming and milk production.  He is a Fonterra shareholder and has a wealth of experience in manufacturing across dairy and infant nutrition, including managing plants in China, Indonesia, New Zealand, Thailand and Europe.  Greg has lived and worked in China, Netherlands, Singapore and the USA.

Richard Allen

Board Member

Richard started with Fonterra in 2008 and since then has worked across all ends of Fonterra’s global ‘Grass to Glass’ value chain. As Group Director Farm Source he currently leads the farmer facing side of the business who connect with Fonterra’s farmer-shareholders right where it all begins: on-farm with the milk. Prior to this Richard and his family lived in Shanghai where he followed the milk the whole way through to the other end of the value chain. He led Fonterra’s Anchor Food Professionals Food Service business across Mainland China and Hong Kong, enabling customers to serve high quality dairy creations to their millions of consumers. There is a lot that goes on in getting the milk from farm to the consumer’s glass, and throughout this process Richard has held roles in supply chain, manufacturing planning and optimisation, and strategy.

Richard is also Director and Co-Founder of Snowball Effect, New Zealand’s leading online equity marketplace, and takes an active interest in working with some of New Zealand’s fastest growing small businesses.

Paul van Boheemen

Board Member

Paul van Boheemen is the General Manager Co-operative Affairs at Tatua where he is responsible for shareholder on-farm performance management, corporate secretarial duties, regulatory affairs, policy submissions, administration of shareholding and milk solid entitlements as well as being an advisor on constitutional matters.

Since joining Tatua in 1994, Paul has held several technical and management roles within the Company. Prior to this he held roles within central and local government in the areas of  geothermal research and environmental management.

Paul holds a Bachelor of Science (Earth Sciences) and a Post Graduate Diploma in Business & Administration.

Tim Winter

Board Member

• Chemistry degree from Waikato University
• 24 years in the Dairy industry developing and commercialising new products and processes.
• Experience in R&D of commercial scale protein purification and separation by chromatographic and membrane processes. Involved in development of enzyme hydrolysed protein products.
• 16 years managing Business Units focused on specialised proteins for human nutrition, and hydrolysed protein for microbial growth applications, plus responsible for licensing proprietary technology to third parties.

Paul Brown

Independent Director

Paul has worked in Senior management positions Globally in the Dairy and Food Industry for 35 years.
Focus has been on Strategy, Business improvement and Governance, as well as holding multiple directorships on global companies.

Currently Paul is an independent Director of MilkTestNZ and two other entities including ownership in two small companies in the retail and construction business.

Paul also provides consultancy and advisory services.