Meet Sandalwood Growers Co-op Ltd

We were established by concerned growers who were also shareholders in Quintis and had first hand knowledge of the deliberate actions of the ex Quintis board of directors and Blackrock to flush shareholders.We were determined to not allow Blackrock and Quintis to flush growers without a fight.

Sandalwood Growers Co-op was born from a collective will and first-hand understanding of injustice. Established by impassioned growers who were also shareholders in Quintis, we were intimately aware of the deliberate actions taken by the former Quintis board of directors and Blackrock to disenfranchise shareholders. With resilience and determination, we stood united with growers, vowing to never let Blackrock and Quintis undermine the growers without a fight. Our resolve shapes our mission, and our experience fuels our pursuit of fairness and justice. After many years of carefully collecting evidence we are now focused on a campaign to support growers bringing a legal test case against Quintis and Huntley Management to seek declaratory orders and compensation arising from breach of contract, negligence, misleading and deceptive conduct, and unconscionable conduct."

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Meet The Directors

Dr Barry Thompson

Director

Dr Barry Thompson hales from farming stock in WA’s wheat-belt region.
He graduated a dentist in 1970 and began travels that saw work first in
The West Aust goldfields and then in England, followed by a stint in Rhodesia

Then back to Geraldton running a private practice for the last 40 years.
He has a private pilot and yacht-master certifications. For 5 years he ran a truffle farm near Deloraine in Tasmania. Now retired Barry continues with humanitarian work formerly in Vietnam &
Cambodia but now exclusively in Timor Leste’ where his forte is sourcing and
installing modern dental equipment both in the capital Dili, and in far-ranging rural communities.
This is his adoptive family. Barry has invested extensively across the sandalwood projects and carried out Plantation inspections on several occasions.

Graeme Scott

Director

Graeme is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants having been a practising chartered accountant for over forty years specialising in business administrations,finance and tax advice and been a senior partner of EY and its forerunner firms for over 17 years before commencing his own practice which he ran for over 20 years.Graeme spent 10 years as a director of the Heytesbury Group which had extensive interests in building and construction,agriculture and property and was a founder of the Quintis group and its predecessor TFS serving as a director for over 7 years including as a director of the Responsible Entity for the TFS MIS schemes where he and his family and many clients also invested as a grower.Graeme also has extensive business experience in China including marketing sandalwood.