Meridia team

Meet the team
Thomas Vaassen
Co-founder and CEO
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Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Will Hedges
Chief Finance and Operations Officer
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Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Vivian Ribeiro
VP Methodology and R&D
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Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Monika Turska
Chief Product Officer
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Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Lukas Hoex
Head of Consultancy
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Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Phil Straver
Head of Customer Success & Support
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Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Parisa Anand
Sales Manager
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Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Pablo Mendoza
Business Development Manager
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Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Dominika Walter
Marketing Manager
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Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Joseph Okyere
Ghana Co-founder and Managing Director
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Accra, Ghana
Rio Trimono
Country Manager
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Jakarta, Indonesia
Valérie Cromer
Country Manager
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Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire

Co-founders Meridia

Thomas Vaassen
Co-founder and CEO
Simon Ulvund
Co-founder
OUR LOCATIONS

We have teams around the world

Ghana

Accra

Indonesia

Jakarta

Ivory Coast

Abidjan

Netherlands

Amsterdam

Brazil

Sao Paulo

Vietnam

Buon Ma Thuot

Join our team

Career opportunities at Meridia

Board members

Ted van der Put
Board Chairman
Former Executive Director at IDH and Chair Global Coffee Platform
Destana Herring
Board member
Principal, Regeneration.VC
Clive de Ruig
Board member
President ICE Benchmark Administration
Timothy Rann
Board member
Managing Partner, Mercy Corps Ventures
Thomas Vaassen
Board member
Co-founder and CEO

Strategic advisors

Nicko Debenham
Former Vice President of Sustainability at Barry Callebaut
Anna Laven
Smallholder expert. KIT Royal Tropical Institute, Chocolonely Foundation, and Chocoa
Robert Horster
Associate Fellow of the Erasmus Commodity and Trade Centre, former Enterprise Sustainability Leader for Agriculture, and Head of Environmental Markets at Cargill
Raphaël Felenbok
Cocoa expert, former Head of Research and Managing Director Switzerland at Barry Callebaut
Sanne Steemers
Consultant at the intersection of supply chain, finance and impact
Diego Juffe Bignoli
Independent biodiversity conservation consultant

Key investors