OUR PEOPLE

All with unique backgrounds, our complementary skills cover strategy, process, finance, marketing, sales and supply chain management.

Angus Hamilton – Chief Executive Officer

Angus brings a significant amount of industry expertise having spent most of his working life in the grocery trade.  He started his career as a management trainee running a liquor store, then as a Foodstuffs category manager and then rising through the sales ranks of Lion Breweries – a division of Lion Nathan - to National Accounts Director.

After having cut his teeth in the corporate world he then took on the challenge of managing a small but rapidly growing business in Pavé Consumer Brands joining the business in July 2006.

Angus has been responsible for successfully managing the business to its current state delivering a significant amount of growth to Pavé Consumer Brands and its partners.

Angela Wong – Director Marketing and Product Development

Angela has a broad background across multiple disciplines. Having completed an honours degree in marketing she embarked on a career as a management consultant for Cap Gemini working in the Asia region.  Eager to get into the cut and thrust of business she then joined her father’s business which was a major importer/distributor. Having learnt the ropes she joined Pave Consumer Brands in 2006, eager to utilize her knowledge but also to pursue her passion in Marketing and Product Development.

To date Angela has been instrumental in driving the product and marketing strategies for both Pave Consumer Brands and our partners.  In particular she identified the opportunity and developed both Rejuva and Sushi Co.

Chris Wong – Non-Executive Director

As a non-executive director, Chris has been a valuable asset to the business having significant expertise in a broad range of business disciplines including business strategy, process engineering, operations, manufacturing and finance.

Commencing his career working overseas for global management consultancy Accenture, he returned to New Zealand working for a high growth private manufacturing company and then a private equity firm investing in the SME import, manufacture and distribution sector.  From 2005 to 2007 he established his own investment company acquiring three companies in the FMCG sector with an aggregate turnover of over $20m.  In 2009 he exited two of them whilst retaining Pave Consumer Brands.  In December 2010 he managed the acquisition of a strategic stake in Sales Link Australasia NZ Ltd – a leading sales and merchandising services provider – as part of a broader FMCG strategy.

Chris brings valuable insight to our business but also our partners particularly in the areas of business and product strategy.

Lourence Bacani – Marketing Assistant

Lourence joined us in October 2009, having working 11 years in advertising, marketing and public relations.  Heralding from the Philippines, Lourence worked for a number of highly regarded public relations agency, Caltex Philippines, a radio station and Walt Disney studios.

Lourence further enhances our ability to creatively build the brands we manage creating greater public awareness for our products and ultimately drive increased sales.

Carl Grainger – Operations and Logistics Manager

Carl is a supply chain expert having spent his entire career in this field. Spending the early stage of his career in various supply chain roles at ENZA Fruit – a global exporter of New Zealand apples and pears – he then specialized in integrated logistics working for both Linfox and Toll Logistics.  These companies are the largest integrated solutions providers in Australasia.

Since joining us in February 2007, Carl has brought a substantial wealth of knowledge in forecasting, costing, warehousing and logistics, delivering significant cost efficiencies to our business.