Don Everitt is a self employed consultant and Director, focused on food and life science business in the areas of strategy, marketing, leadership, governance and innovation. Previously, he was in charge of developing strategies for worldwide foodservice and premium specialty retail channels. 

Mr. Everitt has built businesses in market channels in New Zealand , Australia, North America and Asia-Pacific (especially Japan) plus transactional export markets. He has  led people to implement agreed plans and achieve strategic goals. 

At New Zealand King Salmon he led a team of 40 staff, located in 
    Nelson, Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington, Christchurch (NZ), 
    Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane (Aus), 
    San Francisco (CA), New York (NY) and 
    Tokyo (Japan). 

Mr. Everitt was directly responsible for introducing approx 13% CAGR in new business for NZKS over a ten year period and directing teams to add and develop new customers in markets and design new product. He is a passionate driver of NPD strategy, using a portfolio approach, with stage-gate methodology using Accolade software. 

Mr. Everitt is a leader of a structured strategy and cultural approach to innovation using technology development strategy, process development and product development. He is available for consultation, contracting, project work and governance roles. He is a director at Far Reach Limited and Owner at Oka Cottage.