Welcome to Our New Individual Members Mid-Year 2025

We’re pleased to welcome new members to the New Zealand Scandinavian Business Association.

It’s great to see our community growing with people and businesses who are interested in building strong connections between New Zealand and Scandinavia.

Here’s a quick introduction to our newest members

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Luke McKee

General Manager / Regional Head Central Districts at Fonterra Co-operative Group

As Head of the Central Districts Region at Fonterra Co-operative Group Ltd, I am responsible for securing sustainable milk supply revenues of 2.1B NZD and annual sales revenue of 130M NZD. I have experience in leading regional cross-functional teams responsible for Commercial, Sustainability, Technical Sales and multi-site Retail Sales.

From 2016 to 2022, I was based in Stockholm, at DeLaval International AB, where I led global product management and marketing teams in Go-To-Market strategies, driving customer-centric growth and competitive product management.

While in Sweden, I led the creation of an AgriTech startup, Prometheus Agri, integrating data for resource optimisation.

Returning to New Zealand in 2022, where we now live in Auckland together with my wife and daughter. Interests include travelling and recently rediscovered tennis.

Sylvie Chetty

Sylvie Chetty is a visiting professor at Uppsala University in Sweden, a role she has held since 1997, when she first spent a research/sabbatical year there while working at Victoria University in Wellington. In recognition of her long-standing collaboration with the institution, Uppsala University awarded her an honorary doctorate in business studies.

In addition to her position at Uppsala, Sylvie has also been a visiting professor at Gothenburg University and the University of Eastern Finland. Her primary research interests lie in the internationalisation of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). She has worked closely with colleagues from Sweden, Finland, and Denmark to publish numerous academic articles on starting and expanding businesses internationally.

Sylvie previously served as the Director of the Centre for Entrepreneurship at the University of Otago. She has also held academic positions at Canterbury University, Massey University, and the University of Swaziland. Throughout her academic career in New Zealand, she hosted several PhD students and professors from Sweden, Finland, and Denmark, facilitating their research in New Zealand.

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We’re looking forward to getting to know both of you and seeing how you’ll take part in the NZSBA community.

Welcome aboard!