Meet Our Team

Greg Cate

Greg is based in the Waikato and has worked in the dairy industry for several years.  Whilst supporting a fantastic team who are passionate about animals, Greg believes our focus is to provide high quality products to our farmers and rearers.  We like to be able to share knowledge, solutions and research to assist farmers with growing healthy and productive animals.  

Frank Chen

Frank has been with Fonterra since 2007 and joined NZAgbiz in 2012. Frank graduated from the University of Waikato with a BMS in Finance and Accounting and he is also a Chartered Accountant. Frank’s key responsibility includes financial performance & reporting, project financial evaluation, internal control, strategy implementation and support as well as IS enhancement implementation. Frank also manages the NZAgbiz Admin and Project Coordination team. Building a strong team and using the commercial knowledge to help and enhance business decision making have been Frank’s main driver.  

Carla Rawson

Head of Sales Carla Rawson describes her role as being there to support our farmers and her sales team to ensure we get the best results possible when rearing young animals.  Carla believes we have the best team of people, and they are all as passionate as she is about producing quality products based on best practice principals, that will provide our farmers with great results.

Carla Rawson

Head of Sales Carla Rawson describes her role as being there to support our farmers and her sales team to ensure we get the best results possible when rearing young animals.  Carla believes we have the best team of people, and they are all as passionate as she is about producing quality products based on best practice principals, that will provide our farmers with great results.

Kelly Stewart

Kelly joined the NZAgbiz in 2020 and leads the marketing for NZAgbiz.  Kelly is passionate about supporting our farmers and does this by providing useful communications and connecting them to the tools, services and products NZAgbiz provides.   For Kelly it’s all about how we can help set our customers up for the future to have profitable and sustainable farming businesses.

Carla Rawson

Head of Sales Carla Rawson describes her role as being there to support our farmers and her sales team to ensure we get the best results possible when rearing young animals.  Carla believes we have the best team of people, and they are all as passionate as she is about producing quality products based on best practice principals, that will provide our farmers with great results.

Brian Funnell

Brian is what we call a good bugger and has been with NZAgbiz for 13 years.  Brian’s role is key to the organisation ensuring that our products such as Anlamb, Ancalf and Brutus for example are consistently meeting our high-quality standards.

Wayne Dyche

Wayne is another one of our super versatile key staff members who wears a lot of hats. To name a few: Process Manager, Maintenance Manager, Project Co-ordinator and Store Manager. Wayne has been with Fonterra since 2007 and joined NZAgbiz in 2014.  Having firsthand experience in human food grade manufacturing first Wayne brings a lot of the quality standards and structure to the Temuka site.

Michaela Wood

Michaela has been with NZAgbiz for approx. 3 years in the Dairy Industry for more than 12years.  Michaela’s key responsibility is to ensure our products meets label claims and adhere to our quality program which aligns to human grade manufacturing standards. This covers packaging, ingredient quality, plant hygiene, pest management, testing etc

Carolyn Gardner

Carolyn has been with NZAgbiz for 2 years having come from a Road engineering background. Her primary responsibility is to source raw materials, plan NZAgbiz production and manage stakeholder relationships to enable NZAgbiz to deliver quality products. Carolyn grew up in the Waikato and has used NZAgbiz products as a child to rear her own Ag Day calves, lambs and goats. She is also passionate about Sustainability and is honoured to be leading this for NZAgbiz.