Team
Freek-Jan Koekoek, Managing Director
Mr. Freek-Jan Koekoek (MSc) started the company in 2000, after extensive experience in international trade, business consultancy and agricultural project management. His last job was at Fair Trade Original, the Dutch importer and distributor of fair-trade products and pioneer of the fair-trade movement.
Freek-Jan graduated as an agricultural engineer from Wageningen University in 1990, specialising in Tropical Land and Water Management. During his professional career, he followed complementary courses in marketing and business management. Freek-Jan’s experience covers a wide range of agricultural products, food ingredients and finished products, including oil seeds (chia seeds and sesame), grains and ancient grains (rice, quinoa, fonio), spices, edible oils, dried fruits, edible nuts and many others. He has worked in a multiple projects promoting trade and building sustainable value chains and export sectors, including for EPOPA (Export Promotion of Organic Products from Africa), ITC, the EU and CBI. For the latter, Freek-Jan has worked as Sector Expert Food Ingredients starting in 2007.
As a consultant he is coaching private companies (SMEs) planning to grow their exports to Europe. As as broker he is assisting selected companies in findings markets in Europe as well.