NZKGI Chairman, Doug Brown, says this is an exciting opportunity for NZKGI to bring on board Johnson’s energy and passion for the horticulture industry and to support NZKGI’s strategic direction.

She has managed NZ Citrus Growers Inc. for over ten years transitioning the industry from a voluntary grower organisation to a professional organisation with sustainable, compulsory levy funding and a strategic approach to investment of grower funds.

Johnson is also a Founding Director of Market Access Solutionz, a specialist biosecurity, regulatory systems, market access, international trade issues management and strategic industry management advisory company which has been successfully operating for over thirteen years.

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