Lloyd assists a group of corporate companies in the upper North Island with their international trading requirements.

Lloyd has extensive knowledge of trade finance having been with ANZ for 25 years in trade and customer roles.

Lloyd is passionate about New Zealand being a successful trading nation. He is a past Vice President and past President of Export New Zealand, he is actively involved in promoting New Zealand exporters in order to enhance the country’s ability to earn foreign exchange and raise overall standards of living.

Lloyd is also a mentor with Business Mentors New Zealand, which assists small to medium companies expand their businesses into international markets.

Twelve years experience on the trade development front line, as NZ Trade Commissioner in three different locations: Brussels, covering Benelux and Scandinavia; Vienna, covering Austria and the then Socialist countries of Eastern Europe; and Canberra - the time in Canberra was trade policy-based, involved with the negotiation and then the early operation of the CER Agreement. Eleven years as the Secretary of the Boards of Directors of the Market Development Board, the Trade Development Board, and Trade New Zealand/Tradenz, and in various general management roles. Since 1998, the Executive Director of three bilateral international business councils, and involved with occasional trade-related research projects.

Barry has extensive experience in agribusiness both in New Zealand and internationally.

His experience includes leadership of New Zealand’s largest nationwide agribusiness, PGG Wrightson with turnover of $1.2 billion and 3000 staff.

He led the mergers of Wrightson with Williams and Kettle and Pyne Gould Guinness in the period 2004 to 2006.

He was responsible for the establishment of New Zealand’s largest primary sector business investments in South America, mainly in Uruguay but also in Argentina and Brazil. These included the launch of New Zealand Farming Systems Uruguay and its listing on the NZX50; and acquisition of a number of businesses in the seed, livestock, real estate, rural supplies and irrigation sectors.

Barry is qualified in agricultural commerce and economics and is currently operating as an independent agribusiness consultant.

Alison is the International Market Manager – North and South America, New Zealand Trade & Enterprise. She is thus the

NZ based representative for the NZTE team in the Americas region – working with offices in Canada, the US, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and Chile.  Alison joined NZTE in 2003 after living and working overseas in the UK, US and Canada, and travelling through Central and South America.

Within NZTE Alison has worked across a number of areas including Business Development, Client Management (focusing on the ICT and F&B sectors), offshore in the NZTE London office, and as the International Market Manager for Europe and the Middle East.

Before joining NZTE, Alison worked in a variety of business development roles in NZ, the UK and Canada, including with NZ Post, Industry NZ, the British Government, and with a start-up internet company in Canada.  Alison is based in Wellington.

John is currently the Chief Executive Officer of the Institute of Environmental Science and Research (ESR), a position he has held since January 2000.

Prior to ESR he held positions within AgResearch’s Grasslands Division, and in the late 1990s was General Manager, Plant Improvement.

In 2006 he was awarded the New Zealand Royal Society’s Thomson Medal for outstanding and inspirational leadership in the management of science.

Dr Michael Lay-Yee is General Manager International Market Development for Plant and Food Research (PFR) – a New Zealand-based, commercially focused, plant and food science company with personnel in Australia, USA and Europe. Michael is responsible for PFR’s international market development, growing global business and building key strategic international commercial and science collaborations. He has carried out work in a range of territories including New Zealand, Australia, Asia, Europe, the US, Latin America, South Africa and Pacific Island countries. Michael's career has spanned research, management of science, business development and commercialisation. His qualifications include a B Hort Sc (Hons) from Massey University, New Zealand; a PhD from University of California Davis (USA); and an MBA from Otago University, New Zealand.

Katia MacKenzie is the director of Discovery Education and Travel, which in

2010 celebrates its ten years of activities.

Discovery is an educational travel agency, specialized in recruiting

overseas students for a study experience at New Zealand secondary schools.

The company started working with Brazil only, Katia's homeland, but now

welcomes students from Mexico and Europe.

Discovery also offers supervised tours for teenaged International students,

throughout New Zealand and Australia.

Katia has recently initiated activities in Australia and is looking forward

to the challenges of expanding into our neighbours' territory.

Manning Group Limited specializes in developing New Zealand export markets in Latin America for New Zealand products and technologies.

Manning Group’s current projects encompass the expansion into Mexico and Argentina of internet-based information technologies developed in New Zealand for the tourism sector.

Since 1987 Manning Group has successfully worked in a wide variety of sectors (principally in Mexico & Argentina but also in Peru, Chile and Uruguay) including Adventure Tourism (Shotover Jet Limited & A.J.Hackett Bungy Limited), Animal Health (MAFTECH), ESL Education (CITEC), Dairy Management (MAF Flock House Bulls), Post-graduate Education (Massey University), Food Processing (Watties Industries Limited), Trade & Product Promotions (Weddel Crown Corporation & NZ Meat Board), Construction (Puerto Vallarta Partnership) and Importing (Café Vallarta Partnership & Mexicorp Limited).

In addition to the activities in Latin America Manning Group Limited has also successfully owned and managed a number of New Zealand-based enterprises in hotel management, property development & investment and latterly, feature film production.

Silvana Schenone is a Senior Associate at Minter Ellison Rudd Watts. She is qualified to practice as a lawyer in Chile and New Zealand, and is Master in Laws from Harvard University.

Silvana is experienced in advising local and foreign investors, both in English and Spanish, on a range of corporate matters, having acted for a number of clients on acquisitions, joint ventures and partnership arrangements, private equity investments, securities offerings and general corporate advisory work.

Before coming to New Zealand, Silvana lived and worked in the United States (Boston and New York) and before that she practiced law in Chile (where she was born), receiving multiple recognitions during her career.

Silvana now leads the Latin American practice of Minter Ellison Rudd Watts, the only major New Zealand firm with a dedicated focus and expertise in Latin America.

Minter Ellison Rudd Watts is a long established New Zealand law firm with more than 40 partners and over 120 other legal staff across their Auckland and Wellington offices. For over twenty years, the firm has been a member of the worldwide Minter Ellison Legal Group, which is the only recognised top-tier global legal grouping owned and operated from the Asia-Pacific region.

Alex Worker is a Business Graduate in Global Trade, Fonterra. After completing a university exchange to Buenos Aires in 2007, Alex returned to Auckland to complete his studies tracking New Zealand business movements in South America. He joined Fonterra in 2009 and has rotated through graduate roles in Marketing, Planning, and Trade Strategy.

Nigel Moore joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade in 1974, having graduated from the University of Auckland with an MA (Hons) in History. Mr Moore has worked in a wide range of divisions in Wellington with a focus on the Pacific and Asia. He is currently Director of the Americas Division, a position he took up in April this year.

Mr Moore has served in five overseas posts, including Samoa (11974-76) and Malaysia (1980-84). He was New Zealand’s High Commissioner to Tonga (1991-95) and High Commissioner to Papua New Guinea (1997-2001). During his time in Port Moresby Mr Moore was actively engaged in the Bougainville peace process. Mr Moore’s last overseas posting was as High Commissioner to Singapore (2001-04). Following his return to Wellington in 2004, he has been Director Consular Division (2004-5), and then Director of South and Southeast Asia Division (2005-7) and Asia Division (2008-2009). Mr Moore’s recent work in Asia focused on positioning New Zealand within Asia’s growing institutional architecture, as well as developing key bilateral relationships.