Greater Brisbane Area
I grew up in a small village in the Netherlands, where working on my grandfather’s farm sparked an early fascination with plants, nature, and the rhythm of the land. What started as a childhood chore quickly turned into a lifelong passion, and a career that’s taken me far beyond that little village. After starting my career in the Dutch horticultural sector, I moved overseas in my mid-twenties to explore new cultures and opportunities. Since then, I’ve worked with international companies across Europe, South America, Africa, Asia, and Australia, gaining a broad perspective on the global industry. I’ve had the privilege of working in both fast-moving startups and well-established, listed companies. This range has given me the ability to adapt quickly, lead diverse teams, and implement strategies that drive growth, improve operations, and open up new market opportunities. My focus is on innovation, sustainable practices, and identifying trends that shape the future of horticulture. I’m passionate about building strong partnerships, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, and finding practical solutions to complex challenges. Always learning, always curious, and still genuinely excited about what’s growing in the greenhouse.
As the Sr. Director of Global Tree Propagation at Terviva, I lead our global nursery strategy, ensuring the successful propagation and scale-up of our tree production across multiple geographies. My work is central to our mission of transforming sustainable agriculture by delivering high-quality tree material through strong global nursery partnerships. A core focus of my role is identifying and managing partnerships with nurseries globally, establishing scalable business structures, and overseeing the transfer of Terviva’s proprietary tree propagation methodologies. I also lead our efforts on regulatory compliance, phytosanitary protocols, and technology transfer to ensure successful international implementation.
Esperanza provides expert advice on food safety and corporate sustainability. We support businesses in achieving compliance, improving risk management, and embedding sustainable practices to drive long-term success.
Lynch is a vertically integrated wholesaler and grower of flowers and potted plants in the Australian and Chinese floral markets. Lynch is a 3rd generation business with over 100 years of experience built from farming, the passion and pride of our people, our deep longstanding relationships with growers and customers and our innovation. Lynch is an international leading integrated grower, wholesaler and retailer of fresh-cut flowers and potted plants, with unparalleled scale and capability. Lynch operates growing facilities in Australia and China with state of the art cool chained production facilities. We have been supplying Australian supermarkets with flowers since 1979 and operating in China since 2002. The Lynch Group is the only national floral marketers in Australia with ISO & HACCP Quality Standard accreditation.
Founded in 2010, Terviva is a food and ag innovation company partnering with farmers to grow pongamia, a climate-resilient tree which produces abundant, protein- and oil-rich legumes. Pongamia is uniquely suited to meet today’s environmental challenges. It sequesters carbon, improves soil health and water quality while growing on land where other crops can’t grow. This helps to avoid deforestation and revitalize agricultural lands and communities around the world. After more than a decade of innovation, we’ve developed a way to harvest and transform pongamia beans into healthy and delicious food ingredients called Ponova™. From tree to plate, our transparent and equitable supply chain spans wild harvesting, non-GMO beans in India to regenerative land stewardship in Hawaii, Florida and Australia. We believe there’s a better way to feed the world’s growing population and that local impact can drive global change.
The Lynch Group is recognized as world leaders in floral innovation, research and development. Our pool of internationally respected industry experts ensure that our design standards are parallel with overseas trends and that we continue to be seen as leaders in floral quality control and post-harvest techniques. We are specialists in exporting Australian Wildflowers throughout the world. The Lynch Group is the only national floral marketers in Australia with ISO & HACCP Quality Standard accreditation. Our team of technicians ensure that the Lynch Group is always at the leading edge in respect to the adoption of the latest postharvest techniques, to provide maximum value for our customers. Lynch has the capability to deliver its products fresh to just about anywhere in Australia from its operations in all the major cities of Australia with sales offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide.
General Roles and Responsibilities • Managing OPEX and CAPEX of the farm operation, full P&L responsibility. • Co-managed the application of R&D and Product development grants (successfully obtained 2018) • Farm management of the Sydney farm operation producing Culinary herbs for the major supermarkets in Australia • Expert input on a wide array of operational procedures, systems, and technologies. • Facilitated development of new knowledge with research & development practices geared at creating more sustainable, lucrative, and resilient crops. • Coordinated development of supplies and plant stocks that are up standard and are in compliance of targets in yields and labour. • Accommodated internal and external support issues, conducting technical investigations, visits, and assessments to arrive at educated and evidence-based decision making. Technical support of farm managers in Australia. • Accreditation of all farms, SQF, HARPS, SEDEX • Periodically performed project management tasks