Corporate
NyPa Australia Ltd. is an unlisted public company that was formed in 1993 to import and evaluate certain productive cultivars of the halophyte (salt loving) species Distichlis spp. that have been collected and bred from plants collected throughout the north and central American continent. The NyPa range of plants is marketed through a joint venture "salt solutions" with Elders Ltd.
The NyPa Australia Ltd. board comprises:
Corporate Growers:
The NyPa Australia Ltd. board comprises:
- Mr Perry Gunner B Ag Sc (Chair) He was a foundation director and rejoined the board on 30-9-2009. He is Deputy Chairman of Viterra a major world grain trader. Mr. Gunner was chair of ABB Grain Board. Prior to this appointment he was Deputy Chairman of AusBulk (1997-2004). Mr. Gunner is and has served as a director of a number of public companies, holding current positions of Chairman of Freedom Foods Group Ltd, director of Australian Vintage Ltd., and director of A2 Corporation Ltd., a New Zealand listed public company. He was previously Chairman and Chief Executive of Orlando Wyndham and was responsible for the international development of Jacobs Creek. He is also a former President of the Winemakers Federation of Australia and former Chair of both Workcover Corporation and SA Totalisator Board. Mr. Gunner has a property at Meningie that produces branded beef (Coorong Angus) and branded lamb (Pure Suffolk) and incorporates a feedlot and is a grower of NyPa Forage.
- Mr John Leake M. Agr Sci (MD ) Appointed as director on 22 September 1993. John is an agriculturalist with a career of some 35 years as consultant and project manager of rural development projects in some 30+ countries for the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the UN Group, the Mekong River Commission and many Governments and private investors. He is a founder of NyPa Australia and has coordinated its research and commercialisation since it began. John has conducted reviews of Government salinity programs from Commonwealth through State and Local Government levels and has significant experience in land and mine site rehabilitation. He was a panel speaker of the 2001 Adelaide Festival of Ideas on the subject “Salt of the Earth; Salt – Water and the limits to Growth”. Age 65.
- Mr John Gamble FCA (Director Secretary). Appointed as director on 6 December 2002. John Gamble is a corporate strategist, consulting to a wide range of business sectors including pastoral, information technology, finance, tourism, aviation, transport and construction industries. His expertise includes tax, business finance, capital raising, corporate planning, advisory and reconstruction. A Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia, principal of a public accounting firm for some 25 years, and director/secretary of numerous companies including Airnorth Group. Age 61.
Corporate Growers:
- Mr Raymond Matthews, Wickepin, Western Australia
- Wanderribby Farm, Meningie, South Australia
NyPa Australia Ltd. is part
of an international network of companies devoted to collecting,
breeding and commercializing plants and technologies that can
utilize and/or rehabilitate salty land and water.
The NyPa Group is made up of:
NyPa International, NyPa Arabia; Dubai, NyPa Greenbridge; Arkansas, NyPa Inc; Arizona, NyPa Iberica & NyPa Iberica Forraje; Spain, Yanchcheng NyPa Agriculture & Husbandry Corporation Ltd.; China, NyPa South Africa, NyPa Australia Ltd.
The NyPa Group is made up of:
NyPa International, NyPa Arabia; Dubai, NyPa Greenbridge; Arkansas, NyPa Inc; Arizona, NyPa Iberica & NyPa Iberica Forraje; Spain, Yanchcheng NyPa Agriculture & Husbandry Corporation Ltd.; China, NyPa South Africa, NyPa Australia Ltd.