Meridia team

Meet the team
Thomas Vaassen
Co-founder and CEO
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Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Tom Hazeldine
Chief Experience Officer
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Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Will Hedges
Head of Finance and Operations
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Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Christian Lemp
Head of Data & Methodology
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Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Pablo Mendoza
Business Development Manager
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Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Parisa Anand
Sales Manager
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Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Arkadiy Kondrashov
Head of Marketing
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Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Phil Straver
Head of Customer Success & Support
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Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Joseph Okyere
Ghana Co-founder and Managing Director
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Accra, Ghana
Rio Trimono
Country Lead
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Jakarta, Indonesia
Valérie Cromer
Country Lead
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Abidjan, Ivory Coast

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

Lithuania

Kaunas

Netherlands

Amsterdam

Board members

Ted van der Put
Board Chairman
Former Executive Director at IDH and Chair Global Coffee Platform
Clive de Ruig
Board member
President ICE Benchmark Administration
Timothy Rann
Board member
Managing Partner, Mercy Corps Ventures
Cecile Sother
Board member
Founder, SABI Fund
Thomas Vaassen
Board member
Co-founder and CEO

Strategic advisors

Nicko Debenham
Former Vice President of Sustainability at Barry Callebau
Anna Laven
Smallholder expert. KIT Royal Tropical Institute, Chocolonely Foundation, 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