Personnel

Our staff have an extensive background not only in forestry but also working with overseas manufacturers and processors.  

Peter Price

General Manager, Guangzhou, China

Peter has been permanently based in China for the last eight years and has over 20 years experience of working relationships in Asia, particularly China. His involvement has included both the importing of logs and lumber into China and the sourcing and quality assurance of Chinese manufactured wood related products for international markets including the US, UK, Europe, the Middle East and Australia.

Peter provides both technical and marketing expertise across the entire value added supply chain from forestry management through to sawmilling and onto downstream processing.

Warwick Neumann

Managing Director, Taupo, New Zealand

Warwick has spent most of his working life in forestry-related operational roles including sawmilling and all the downstream products including lumber, plywood, fingerjoint, laminated lumber, plywood and laminated veneer lumber, pulp, paper and packaging.

Before starting DragonWood, Warwick spent eight years running NZ's largest appearance-grade sawmilling operation. The final two years were spent in a global procurement position sourcing high quality, value-added timber products from China, Brazil and Chile, mostly for North American market.

Warwick has an engineering background with a post-graduate MBA.