Graeme Keith Jackson

Keith has an extensive background in management and governance with particular emphasis on the food and dairy industries. He was CEO of Tegel Foods for 16 years, Deputy Chairman of Ernest Adams and Managing Director of Independent Dairy Producers, a fresh milk company. He was a founding partner of Dairy Farm Investments and Dairyland Products. He was the Chairman of Sportstec Limited that was founded in 2000 and sold in 2016. In 2008 he founded Cooks via a merger of four companies and the company acquired the global rights to the Esquires Coffee brand (excluding Australia and New Zealand) in 2013. He has been the Chair of the Advisory Board of Pic's Peanut Butter from 2008 until he retired on 31st March 2025.

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