Speakers

Guy Roper

Chairman

Guy Roper has held the role of Independent Chair of Dairy Companies of New Zealand (DCANZ) since 1 July 2025. His career of over 30 years with cooperatives in the New Zealand dairy industry has spanned governance, sales, commercial and financial roles. Guy had an active role as a farmer elected director of Kiwi Co-operative Dairies Limited in industry consolidation that led to the formation of Fonterra Cooperative Group. Subsequent Executive roles within Fonterra included GM of Sales & Operations Planning and Commercial Director of Ingredients. Guy played an integral role in the development and launch in 2008 of Globaldairytrade, the platform that serves as a transparent market-based benchmark for global dairy pricing. Between 2009-2012 Guy was Fonterra’s Switzerland based Global Account Manager selling to Nestlé. 
In accepting the role of Chair of DCANZ Guy seeks to support enhanced trade, food safety, market access regulation and biosecurity measures for New Zealand processors and exporters.