Graeme Brown co-founded the Company and is primarily responsible for operations. Prior to this, he worked for eight years at Keresa Plantations, where he remains the managing director, over which time he planted and managed a 6,000 hectare palm oil plantation. He is a specialist in plantation planting, palm species and plantation operations, with over 10 years' experience in the industry. He also founded Keresa Mills Sdn Bhd, which has been a pioneer in the successful implementation of advanced milling technologies for FFB processing. He graduated from Otago University in New Zealand.

Dennis Melka co-founded the Company and is primarily responsible for corporate development, acquisitions and finance. Prior to this, and since 2005, Mr Melka was a private venture capitalist and has founded companies in Southeast Asia focused on limited service lodging, sustainable tree plantations, corn plantations, telecommunications and financial services. From 1995 to 2005 he worked in Credit Suisse First Boston's investment banking division. He graduated magna cum laude from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.