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Nick Arena

The Team
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The Tailor Made Fish Farms’ team has ‘hands on’ production experience and offer consultancy on aquaculture system design and installation. We also provide ongoing, after sales support and comprehensive training packages. The team at Tailor Made Fish Farms has been strategically and purposefully selected over the past 8 years from both scientific and practical backgrounds, who together ensure you get the right advice to guarantee your ongoing success.

The team offers:

  • Hands on Production Experience.
  • Production planning.
  • Design and Construction Experience in land based RAS and aquaponics.
  • Comprehensive training, technical support with after sales backup.
  • Training in fish health management.
  • Site selection and feasibility expertise.
  • Sales and Marketing experience.
The Team

Nick Arena - Managing Director

  • Eight years in Aquaculture systems design, installation, maintenance, & operations
  • Twenty-two years experience in the building construction industry.
  • Excellence in project management, design & planning, quoting & implementation.
  • Proven organisational & communication skills.
  • Microsoft Excel, Word, MYOB and Outlook Express
  • Self employed for 20 years before becoming Managing Director of Tailor Made Fish Farms.

Aquaculture Objective

To design and provide the most economical and efficient way to farm the finest quality fresh water and salt water species in an environmentally sustainable and responsible manner.

Summary Skills & Accomplishment

Nick is the Managing Director of Tailor Made Fish Farms (TMFF), which has become a leader in the sustainable commercial production of finfish in Australia. During the past 8 years, Nick has been instrumental in co-founding the company and is currently responsible for expansion and the ongoing business development.

As a key member of the management team, his major focus has been to create new, and develop existing technologies resulting in more sustainable, efficient and viable practices relating to land based Aquaculture.

Nick has proven experience in design, development, management, and operation of aquaculture nurseries and grow-out systems. His expertise in aquaculture development and management is built upon from previous experience as a Project Manager (licensed builder and electrician) in the construction industry, giving him a pragmatic and functional approach to developing operational and economically viable systems.

In addition to his operational roles he has experience in capital raising and financing of aquaculture ventures and business planning for aquaculture. Nick is also skilled in establishing partnerships between joint venture partners. His role in TMFF also includes marketing and market development and he has direct marketing experience in both live and chilled fish products and has established niche markets for our premium barramundi throughout some of Sydney’s finest restaurants and eating establishments.

Marc Talloen - Director

  • Industrial Agriculture Engineer
  • Degree obtained from the “Higher State Institute For Agro – Industries, Onafhankelijkheidslaan, 18, B-9000 Gent, Belgium
  • Degree in Industrial Agriculture Engineering
  • Owner of an Asian Technology Co. specialising in production of filtration for aquaculture, wastewater treatment – exporting to 20 countries.
  • Previously employed by F.A.O. (Food& Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations) as an Associate Expert in Aquaculture.
  • Technical experience in fish & prawn (shrimp) farming; Feed milling – formulation of compound feed for aquaculture; Water Filtration and Agro Industry – production and processing
  • Experience in market research, product marketing and export distribution networks.
  • Establishment of companies in many countries.
  • Fluent in Dutch, English, German, French & Spanish with limited ability in Bahasa Indonesia and Mandarin

Peter Schupp - Technical Advisor

Education

  • 1985-1987 Marine Science Student University of Mainz, Germany. Undergraduate student in biology Vordiplom (Bachelor) in July 1987
  • 1987-1989 Marine Science Student University of Konstanz, Germany. Graduate student in biology; major in limnology.
  • 1989 – 09.1990 Marine Science Student Oregon State University, U.S.A. Exchange program between Baden-Württemberg / Oregon; Master Program in Oceanography. Aquarist at the Public Aquarium of the Hatfield Marine Science Center, Oregon, U.S.A.
  • 1990-1992 Marine Science Student University of Guam, U.S.A. Masters program in biology with a major in marine biology and chemical ecology; Master of Science in Biology in May 1993.
  • 1992-1993 Marine Science Student University of Konstanz, Germany. Diploma in Biology with a major in limnology; Diplombiologe (Masters of Science in Biology) in April 1993.
  • PhD student, 09.1995 – 03.2000, University of Würzburg, Germany. PhD program in pharmaceutical biology under Prof. Dr. P. Proksch; PhD in March 2000. Structure Elucidation, Biological Activity and Ecology of Secondary Metabolites from Micronesian Marine Invertebrates. Isolation and identification of secondary metabolites from marine organisms; experiments assessing the ecology and pharmaceutical activity of isolated compounds (e.g. anti-microbial, fungicidal, insecticidal activity, cytotoxicity); taxonomy of sponges.

Previous Positions

  • Research Assistant 08.1993 - 12.1994
    Coral Reef Research Foundation (CRRF) in Chuuk, Micronesia. Employed under the “Collecting Program for Marine Invertebrates” of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), U.S.A. Duties: Collection, identification and photography of marine invertebrates; supervision of personnel; participant on several collecting trips throughout South East Asia.  
  • Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellow 05.2000 – 05.2003
    Centre for Marine Biofouling and Bio-Innovation. Dr Schupp conducted an independent research program on the role of host secondary metabolites as mediators of microbial-invertebrate interaction. He identified novel marine natural products that act as agonists or antagonists of the N-acylated-L-homoserine lactone (AHL) regulatory system of Gram-negative bacteria and finally he investigated prokaryotic community profiles and their variability within selected invertebrate species. Secondly, as the Senior Scientist for Natural Products Chemistry within CMBB he advises and trains students and staff. Thirdly, he taught within the School of Biological Science at UNSW and supervised undergraduate and graduate students.
  • Scientific Adviser 2001- present, at Tailor Made Fish Farms Pty Ltd Port Stephens, NSW Australia
  • Assistant Professor August 2003 - present, at the University of Guam Marine Laboratory
  • (CMBB) for Natural Products Chemistry May 2000 - April 2003.
  • Lecturer for Advances in Ecology and Chemical Ecology, at the University of Guam
  • Supervised 5 M.S. students and co-supervised 6 B.Sc, 3 M.S. and 3 PhD students to date.;
  • Published 17 research papers in refereed journals and 3 book chapters.
  • Presented papers at 8 international and 6 national Conferences since 1996.

Professional Societies

American Society of Pharmacognosy
Australian Marine Science Association
New South Wales Natural Products Group
Dechema, Germany (Society for Chemical Engineering - Biotechnology - Environmental Protection)

Jeff Titmarsh B.V.Sc. Fish Health, Biosecurity & Compliance

  • Graduated December 1972, University of Queensland
  • 2 years private practice in Maitland, N.S.W. dairy industry.
  • 2 years locums, in various parts of N.S.W. and England
  • Established Raymond Terrace Veterinary Clinic in November, 1976 where he is still in practice.
  • Elected to Port Stephens Council in September, 1975-2004
  • Deputy Mayor September 2002 - March 2004

Employment

Self employed at Raymond Terrace Veterinary Clinic since November 1976. Heads a small band of dedicated staff, veterinarians and nurses who collectively have been employed at Raymond Terrace Veterinary Clinic for 82 years.

Aquaculture Objective

As a shareholder in Tailor Made Fish Farms his role is to support any activities undertaken by the company to enhance performance and growth. To offer technical support using his experience of 34 years of Veterinary practice, as adapted into the unique fish management environment pioneered by Tailor Made Fish Farm.

Role in organization

Jeff has decades of experience with disease in all species, and a familiarity with disease control in a variety of species and situations including intensive farm situations.

Jeff’s role is to make sure that such specialist advice obtained my disease investigation is understood by management (and especially the leading hand and workers); and the system is fine tuned to avoid as much as possible the difficulties associated with “crowding the edge of the envelope” in such intensive production, and to build understanding into the aquaculture systems strengths to make it as trouble free as possible.

 
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