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Marquis Macadamias
South African Board

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Marquis Macadamias South Africa

Shane Hartman

Shane Hartman

DIRECTOR
Roelof van

Roelof van Rooyen

DIRECTOR
Peter Zadro

Peter Zadro

DIRECTOR
Luke Dunstone

Luke Dunstone

DIRECTOR
Francis Vos

Francois Vos

DIRECTOR

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Shane Hartman

Shane Hartman

Director

Shane grew up in Limpopo, South Africa, in a small mining and agricultural town. Having always had a passion for numbers he spent a lot of time with the accounts personnel in the family owned business and even processed the accounting records from an early age.

Shane completed a BCompt Acc (Hons) degree from the University of Potchefstroom. This was followed by a Masters in Tax (MTax) from the University of South Africa and then a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) from Regent Business School.

Roelof van

Roelof Van Rooyen

Director

Roelof is a shareholder and Director of one of the largest commercial macadamia farming operations in South Africa. He has extensive knowledge within the industry having served on the boards of numerous macadamia processing facilities and macadamia farming operations over the past 11 years. Roelof and his families’ farming operations span across numerous growing regions within Mpumalanga, South Africa.

Roelof’s passion lies especially in the planning, design and implementation of Macadamia processing and marketing facilities. He successfully ran and more recently formed part of the design and implementation team of Global Macadamias, one of the largest processing facilities in the world, in which he is also a shareholder and Board member. Roelof has a Bachelor of Engineering and an MBA.

Peter Zadro

Peter Zadro

Director

Peter’s previous roles include working for multinational telco provider, Alcatel this role took him into various European and Australia offices as a programmer and project manager. Peter has a rich family history of farming in NSW with his introduction into macadamia orchards in the late 1970s. Peter has a degree (Honours) in agriculture and assisted the Department of Agriculture with the wheat and oat breeding programmes in Temora NSW.

Luke Dunstone

Luke Dunstone

Director

Luke is a second generation South African farmer and the Co-founder and Managing Director of Pegric Estates (Pty) Ltd and a Director of United Macadamia (Pty) Ltd. After completing a Bachelor of Technology in Civil Engineering, Luke returned to the family farm and over the last eight years has spearheaded the switch from a successful, local sugar cane operation to a fully fledged macadamia nut enterprise.

Luke has served on different  boards in the macadamia and agricultural industries. His passion remains in the development and expansion of the macadamia nut industry in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
Francis Vos

Francois Vos

Director

Francois’s experience as CEO of AP Vos & Sons has given him the opportunity to successfully head up the macadamia and ginger divisions which exports globally around 1,000 tonnes per season. He is a fourth generation farmer and was the founder and Director of a large transport and logistics company.

Francois has studied Financial Information Systems at Cape Town University of Technology.