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Marquis Macadamias
Australian Board

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Marquis Macadamias Australia

Clayton

Clayton Mattiazzi

DIRECTOR AND CHAIR
Andrew

Andrew Leslie

DIRECTOR
Peter Costi

Peter Costi

DIRECTOR
Kristina Hermanson

Kristina Hermanson

DIRECTOR
Peter Zadro

Peter Zadro

DIRECTOR
David Bryant

David Bryant

DIRECTOR
Justin Fontana

Justin Fontana

DIRECTOR

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Clayton

Clayton Mattiazzi

Director AND Chair

Clayton has over 13 years experience in the macadamia sector having spent the past 13 years at Hinkler Park Plantation in Bundaberg, Queensland. During his career at Hinkler Park, Clayton has gained valuable knowledge and experience in all aspects of macadamia production including nursery management, farm development, orchard management and post-harvest handling. Clayton has a Degree in Agronomy.

Andrew

Andrew Leslie

Director

Andrew has extensive background in the macadamia industry and as a grower himself having several farms around the Alstonville NSW region. Andrew is founder and operator of the successful ‘Avilla Farm’ – a natural skincare range featuring Australian macadamia oil as the key ingredient

Andrew has a Bachelor of Economics and a Post Graduate Diploma in Financial Management.

Peter Costi

Peter Costi

Director

Peter has been a passionate contributor and driver of the macadamia industry for over 24 years. From his home farm in Bundaberg, he has developed processes and innovations that have been used across the industry. Using this knowledge, Peter has also acquired, developed and subsequently sold additional large scale farms in the Bauple and Beerwah regions in Queensland.

Peter has been a current shareholder of Marquis Macadamias (formerly MPC Ltd and Pacific Gold) since 1998. He has also been the Chairman of Marquis Marketing and was a Director of Marquis Macadamias for 10 years, where he oversaw the integration and rebranding of MPC, Pacific Gold and MMI into the Marquis Group, which became the largest grower owned processor and marketer in Australia.

Kristina Hermanson

Kristina Hermanson

Director

Kristina Hermanson has more than 25 years of global leadership experience across the agriculture value chain in commercial, strategy, M&A, and supply chain roles.  For half of that time, she has been actively engaged in the Australian agriculture industry, holding ANZ/ASEAN MD-level leadership roles and numerous Board roles.

Kristina is a Director of the Nuveen Natural Capital (Westchester) Australian investment funds as Head of APAC and Africa, leading a team of 24 experienced individuals across a portfolio of assets, including macadamia farms in Bundaberg, QLD, since 2022.  Kristina holds an MBA and MS of Mechanical Engineering.

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.

David Bryant

David Bryant

Director

David Bryant is Managing Director of Rural Funds Management Limited (RFM), a company he established in 1997. RFM entities operate 736 hectares of mature macadamia orchards in the Bundaberg and Glasshouse Mountains regions of Queensland and are developing approximately 5,000 hectares of macadamia plantings in Maryborough, Bundaberg and along the Fitzroy River near Rockhampton.

David brings extensive experience to Marquis, gained through more than 26 years developing and operating macadamia, almond, cattle, cropping, poultry, viticulture and water assets across Australia.

Justin Fontana

Justin Fontana

Director

Justin joined Hinkler Park Plantations in 2017. Since being a part of the macadamia industry, he has gained knowledge and experience in farm development, orchard management, and sorting shed operations.

Justin has a degree in Landscape Architecture and is currently a director of Saratoga Holdings Pty Ltd.