LORENZO RIZZINI-BISINELLI
Born in Italy, Lorenzo graduated as management engineer and worked 5 years in Europe as executive for a multinational. He then moved to Kenya where he started consulting on ICT, organisation and process streamlining for agribusiness SMEs for 25+ years. Lorenzo has an incredible experience in training in a multicultural environment. He is also a team builder and takes groups in very remote areas of the planet. Lorenzo has a solution for every challenge and is one of the founders of Natural Rubber Kenya. He brings his experience in management and leadership.
NICOLAS ROGER ROUSSEAU
Born in Switzerland, after graduation Nicolas started working in project development in the infrastructure field in many countries in Europe and Africa for an engineering company. He has over 30 years of experience in understanding employer’s requirements and project specifications, coordinating multi-disciplinary designing from preliminary to ready-to-go ones. Nicolas, one of the founders of Natural Rubber Kenya, brings his expertise in project development and implementation, general commercial law, intellectual property, marketing, business to business agreements, project funding, negotiation with lenders and donors.
BARNEY GASSTON
Born in Kenya, after his studies in UK as an agronomist, Barney started working as a manager in different companies around Africa (Sudan, Nigeria, Ghana, Cote D’Ivoire, Somalia, Tanzania and Ethiopia). He then returned to Kenya and started his own company offering analysis services and logistics and setting up the first rose commercial export operations in East Africa. He later turned into processing ingredients for the pharmaceutical sector and perfume and cosmetic bases, extracting and trading commodities for the pharmaceutical industry. Barney initiated trials with Parthenium argentatum in Kenya and attended several conferences in Europe relevant to its production, as well as corresponding and meeting with researchers in the Netherlands, France, Belgium and the USA. Barney is a founder of Natural Rubber Kenya Ltd, where he is in charge of cultivation trials and extraction.
MARTIN EVANS
Martin was born in Kenya and spent his early days on a ranch in Northern Kenya. After graduation he decided to follow in his father’s steps and took over the management of the family’s 30,000 acre ranch. He worked there ever since, alternating with consultancies for foreign institutions working in the area. Martin is one of the founders of Natura Rubber Kenya and he brings his multi year experience of cultivation and ranching in very difficult climate conditions.