The team

We believe in participation and collaboration within our workforce, which consists of a healthy mix between experiences, competencies and cultural backgrounds. A motivating working environment is important to us and we take pride in having an enthusiastic team.

Gerrit Valkenburg Founder and Managing Director Gerrit is a seasoned constructional engineer and visionary entrepreneur with over 21 years Africa experience. He has got a strong business philosophy and strategy based on sustainability. His clear view of agriculture development in Africa is based on bringing small scale farmers together to create a commercial and viable farming cluster.

Maurice Valkenburg Supply Chain Manager Maurice is a certified supply chain expert with well over 30 years’ experience of which 10 years in Africa. He has got extensive experience in food procurement, warehousing, distribution, and marketing. His competence ranges from HACCP controlled (cold) storage and distribution to commercial sales activities. Next to that he has built up experience in chick hatchery management and catfish breeding.

Gladys Sackey Hatching / Breeding Master - African catfish A hands-on, no-nonsense Madam who acquired the necessary knowledge in sustainable aquaculture production systems over the years. She has strong communicative skills is straight forward and uses a logical approach to the tasks at hand. These skills are beneficiary to her responsibility of the catfish operation at our farm.

Christopher Ampong Marketing and Sales Lead Ghana / ECOWAS Christopher is a strongly motivated marketer with a vast experience in direct sales. His communicative skills and capability to build a solid team of sales representatives will be beneficial. Next to this he is a small-scale broiler farmer himself.

John Ebo Tieku Broiler Supervisor / Trainer   A seasoned poultry expert, both broilers and layers with a solid mathematical teaching background. He is definitely a people person and loves to share his expertise, but also vision on how to move Ghana ahead through smallholder poultry farming.