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BETTYNAMWAGALA
BoardSecretary
WADADADickRobert
DirectorUCF
NICOLAIDESAndreas
DirectorUCF
D
ick Robert Wadada has 28 years of Coffee experience
especially in the quality aspects where he is both a Q and R
coffee grader under the Coffee Quality Institute of the Specialty
Coffee Association of America (SCAA) on top of being a Master
Trainer in sustainable coffee certifications (4C, Organic, UTZ,
Fairtrade and Rainforest) and in Coffee price riskmanagement.
Currently he is a Project Director of the Alur Highlands coffee
Alliance (AHCA) a project under USAID and service as the
technical Director to the Africa Coffee Academy (ACA).He was
the Executive Director of ACA (2009-2013); Coffee Quality
Consultant for Star Café Ltd (2006-2007); ProductionManager of
Main Traders Limited (2005-2006); Production Manager, Beijing
ChenaoCoffeeCoLtdbased,Beijing,China, (2002-2005);Quality
Controller/Senior Quality Controller/Principal Quality Controller,
Uganda Coffee Development Authority (1995-2005) and as
Quality Controller, Coffee Marketing Board, Kampala, Kasese,
Jinja and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, (1987-1995)
He holds a BSc in Chemistry (MUK 1984)
A
ndreas Nicolaides is a Company Director at Great Lakes
Coffee Company Ltd (GLC), established in 1999, and today
one of Uganda’s leading Arabica speciality coffee exporters with
annual exports of between 8,000 – 10,000metric tons. Andreas
was born inEasternD.R.C, wherewegrewup in the family coffee
estates beforemoving to South Africa and later on in the UK for
his studies. He graduated at Edinburgh University with an MA in
International Business in2001 andproceeded to set up a roasted
coffee business, focused on importing award winning speciality
coffees from Ipanema Coffees (Brazil) and distributing to the
UK hospitality industry. In 2009, he permanentlymoved back to
East Africa to join both Uganda and DRC family coffee business.
Andreas is responsible for managing GLC’s sustainability coffee
programme (currently includes 20,000 farmers), from sourcing,
certification and sales, and acts as GLC’s Chief Financial Officer.
B
etty is a Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) UK, and
holds Bachelor’s degree in Applied Accounting from Oxford
University UK and a Post Graduate in Project Planning and
Management from the UgandaManagement Institute.
She is a financial counsellor and supports farmer organisations
when need arises.
She has vast experience in coffee spanning for 20 years seven
of which were specifically in accounting and the rest as an all-
rounder.
Betty is also a coffee farmer with shambas both in Zirobwe
(Luwero) and in Ntunda Sub County –Mukono District.
