Physical address:
Block K2 Technolink, 63 Regency Drive,
Route 21 Business Park, Irene,
Centurion, 0157
Postal address:
P.O. Box 102890, Moreleta Plaza
Gauteng, South Africa 0167
Company Registration: 2014/217234/07
VAT Number: 426 026 9987
As Manager of office operations since August 2016, Mrs Maritz oversees corporate operations and policies, client and supply chain contracts, finances, payroll and business administration. She also serves as part-time Administrator and Events Organiser for the Southern African branch of the World’s Poultry Science Association.
Prior to this, she served 15 years with Sakata Seed Southern Africa as Root Crop Manager, where she project-managed scientific trials and market information systems, while securing trial varieties and crop requirements for South Africa. Mrs Maritz has developed and managed the full life cycle of numerouscrop and variety sales strategies for onion, carrot and beet, and worked with the National Department of Agriculture and SA National Seed Organisation (SANSOR) as key Technical Advisor and Trainer on theSA Plant Breeders’ Rights (PBR) Act and procedures. In her early career, she was a Special Market Coordinatorfor Capespan International for 5 years, acting as the liaison for Japan, Korea, Thailand and USA national authorities on special market requirements for fresh produce importation.
Ms Maritz joined Adlibio in March 2021 from Tanglewood Nature Estate, where she served two years as parttime Booking, Front Office, Site & Customer Relations Manager, while overseeing social media marketing and events. Aside from her scientific degree, she also holds UCT short course certificates in Event Management, Social Media Marketing and Graphic Design.
Mrs van Niekerk joinedAdlibio in January 2021 from VKB Group’s QPro Feeds, where she managed technical and quality assurance for the Vrede and Bethlehem feedfactories, producing 240,000 tons of feed annually. She also shadowed as Salesperson and Technical Advisor at Nutrifeeds.
Prior to this, Mrs van Niekerk served with RD Preece’s Farm Knopfontein, managing and coordinating workers in pecannut and broiler chicken production. She previously assisted Dr Nelmarie Kruger-Rall in her General Veterinary Practice. Nicole is SACNASPregistered (reg. no.128329).
As founder and helmsman of the specialist international consultancy, for well over 7 years Mr Maritz has been steering operational planning, business development, project execution and company-wide quality assurance. With more than 25 years of vocational exposure in agriculture, animal nutrition, intensive livestock production and Greenfield project management across Africa, Mr Maritz is registered with the South African Council for Natural ADDING MEASURABLE VALUE Scientific Professions (reg. no. 400002/002). From 2012 to 2015, he was also Director of Valadd Services (Pty) Limited – a consultancy he co-founded to serve key African clients. Prior to this, he served almost 15 years with AFGRI Operations Limited (previously OTK) in the Animal Feeds Division for a decade, and then as Farms Director with AFGRI Poultry – responsible for the production of ± 4.5 million broilers monthly on 49 company-owned and contract growing farms, while also serving on the Board of Midway Chix(Pty) Ltd.
Mr Maritz is a highly regarded poultry nutrition expert and often presents at industry and client events. Recently, he was guest speaker at AFMA Forum 2020 hosted at Sun City, South Africa where he presented on “Nutritional interventions to support the modern layer achieving a long laying cycle”.