Our Europe Dairy Expertise

Mike relocated to Amsterdam in early 2022 initially as Global Account Director for Nestlé before moving into the role of Managing Director Europe. With a degree from Lincoln University, Mike has had a sales career with various multinationals before joining Fonterra in 2010 as National Sales Manager for Fonterra and our consumer brand Tip Top Ice Cream.

Mike followed this with other roles in Consumer Foodservice and Fonterra Brands before moving to Europe. Mike is married and lives in Amsterdam with their teenage son.

George has been part of the EU Sales team, based in Amsterdam since early 2019. He has looked after various portfolios in this time, covering Fonterra's Dutch based Global Key Accounts, the UK as a new market development, EU multi-national relationships, Paediatric customers & UHT Cream for Food Service.

His journey with Fonterra started in 2014, with a background in Chemical & Process Engineering, he undertook a number of roles across Capital Projects, Engineering & Operations in New Zealand and Australia.

Alex is Fonterra’s Business Development Manager for the United Kingdom. In market since 2022, Alex has been focussed on rebuilding relationships with historic partners and forging new connections with the local dairy industry.

Alex has a passion for building long term relationships in the dairy sector, bringing energy to uncovering customer needs and providing solutions to deliver mutual value. Beginning his career farming in New Zealand’s North Island before transitioning into primary sector exports, Alex is now based in London.

Sophie is an Account Manager responsible for our EU Dairyfoods and UHT Cream customers. Sophie joined Fonterra in 2021, recently part of the Fonterra Brands New Zealand team as Technical Assistant.

With a dairy farming background in New Zealand, Sophie is excited to be part of the Sales Team, working with our European customers.

Tessa joined Fonterra in 2016 and has worked across our manufacturing and technical functions before moving into sales. She has a Masters in Dairy Science and Technology and a deep understanding of Fonterra's product portfolio.

Tessa is passionate about providing excellent service to customers and supporting their long term ambitions through partnership with Fonterra.

Erik has been in the food industry for more than 35 years, starting as new product developper for cheese then moved to the ingredients sales.

Erik joined the NZDB in 1994 and is looking after sales to customer head quarterred in France like BEL group, Lactalis & several pediatrics and active living customers.

Meena has been based in Fonterra Amsterdam for 2 years, and is an Account Manager, where she is responsible for the management of our EU paediatric grade ingredients for various customers In Europe and United Kingdom.

Meena was based in New Zealand prior to relocating to Amsterdam, where she worked in the Fonterra Food Safety and Quality Team.

Matt joined Fonterra in 2005 spending a decade in NPD across all dairy categories across Australia and the UK. In 2016, his strong background in product development led him into Ingredient sales, assisting customers on their own NPD journeys. Since 2020, he has helped customers leverage the benefits of Fonterra's proteins and specialties across APAC and Japan.

Matt moved to Europe in 2023. He loves the strong drive from companies here in providing their consumers with only efficacious and wholesome nutrition.

Pascal-Daniel, aka Padi, has been working in the Amsterdam office for 9 years. Padi deals with our fresh liquids from Heerenveen, for Feed & Food applications. He is also developing the feed application of all our EU & NZ powders. Recently he took the management of some dairy traders onboard.

Mark has been based in Amsterdam since 2022 and is responsible for working with customers to identify the most suitable ingredient for each formulation. Since joining Fonterra's Technical Graduate Programme in 2017, Mark has held a number of roles across the Co-operatives' R&D Centre, New Zealand manufacturing sites and ingredient sales team.

Mark's experience across techincal, sales and marketing gives him a unique problem-solving edge to help customers bring their ideas to life.

Odile has been in the food industry for more than 30 years, holding different roles in various major dairy ingredients companies across Europe. She has a strong background and expertise in B2B marketing, product innovation, and in-depth knowledge of the application of protein ingredients.

Odile joined the team at Fonterra Europe in 2017 and currently provides technical innovation support to Fonterra's European customers as part of the technical innovation team.

Rina is part of the Dutch dairy industry for over 25 years in R&D and technical sales. She joined Fonterra in 2016 and gives technical support to global key accounts and European paediatric customers.