Leadership

 

Thomas Vaassen

Co-founder and CEO
Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Beatrice Moulianitaki

Chief Commercial Officer
Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Tom Hazeldine

Chief Experience Officer
Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Olivier Vernin

Head of Product
Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Will Hedges

Head of Finance and Operations
Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Christian Lemp

Head of Data & Methodology
Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Annelot van Leeuwen

Project Manager Data Products
Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Pablo Mendoza

Business Development Manager
Amsterdam, the Netherlands

 
Joseph Okyere

Joseph Okyere

Ghana Co-founder and Managing Director
Accra, Ghana

Rio Trimono, Meridia Country Coordinator  Indonesia

Rio Trimono

Country Coordinator
Jakarta, Indonesia

Valerie Cromer

Country Lead
Abidjan, Ivory Coast

 

Our locations

We have teams in Accra (Ghana), Jakarta (Indonesia), Abidjan (Ivory Coast), Kaunas (Lithuania) and Amsterdam (the Netherlands)

 

Co-founders Meridia

Simon Ulvund and Thomas Vaassen

 

Board members

Clive de Ruig (Board member) - President ICE Benchmark Administration

Ted van der Put - (Board Chairman) - Former Executive Director at IDH and Chair Global Coffee Platform

Timothy Rann (Board member) - Managing Partner, Mercy Corps Ventures

 

Strategic advisors

Nicko Debenham - Former Vice President of Sustainability at Barry Callebau

Anna Laven - Smallholder expert. KIT Royal Tropical Institute, Tony’s Chocolonely, Chocoa

Han de Groot - Value chain certification expert, Former CEO of Rainforest Alliance/UTZ Certified

Bastiaan Terhorst - SaaS software expert, CTO Relive, Former CTO WeTransfer

Vivian Ribeiro - Sr Data Scientist, Spatial Intelligence Lead. Stockholm Environmental Institute, Trase, co-founder Do Pasto ao Prato

Arun Pratihast - Sr Data Scientist, Wageningen University & Research. Formerly Sr data solutions expert at Akvo

Key investors