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Managing Director, Zindia Forestry Ltd., New Zealand

Jacob is the founder of Zindia group of companies based in New Zealand. Today it has subsidiaries in USA, South Africa and India. He has 27 years of expertise in marketing of sustainable timber products, both Pine and Eucalyptus besides in logistics and shipping.

 

He led the development of India as a market for imported Pine from zero to 1.8 million JAS CBM, and in making it the third largest market for sustainable softwoods for New Zealand. He led the expansion of softwood exports from Germany, South Africa, USA and both Pine and Eucalyptus from Uruguay and Argentina to India.

 

He was also instrumental in the development of Dubai, Saudi Arabia and Malaysia as markets for New Zealands forest products. Zindia won the `Best Exporter to India Award` under his leadership. Zindia continues to expand its markets and now exports to Vietnam, Japan and China as well.

 

His companies acquired and managed about 10,000 acres of Pine plantations in Marlborough Sounds from Weyerhaeuser and Rayonier and in Northland in New Zealand.

 

Jacob is passionate about sustainable plantation forestry and is an acknowledged, `India Timber Expert` and has made presentations on the Indian market at several International Conferences in USA and Canada. He was instrumental in developing India as a market for Weyerhaeuser and Canfor. Zindia is promoting a Timber Industrial Park in Mundra, India with Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone.

 

Jacob was the member of New Zealands Ex-Prime Minister Sir John Keys India delegation to India in 2011 and 2016. He was also a member of New Zealands Deputy Prime Minister Hon Winston Peters India delegation in 2020. He is a member of the India New Zealand Business Council and the Forest Product Export Committee of New Zealand. He was awarded for promoting Rubber Wood globally as an Eco-friendly timber as a Member of the Global Rubber Wood Project of ITC/ UNTCTAD/WTO. Also was an advisor on organic farming to the board of Agricultural Product Export Development Authority of India.

 

Outside of work, Jacob is a media publisher and owns the ethnic fortnightly Indian Newslink, renowned for its authentic news and motivational events. He is also a keen practitioner of yoga and believes in an organic based lifestyle.