reap team members collectively have 100+ years of agricultural work experience on the African continent. Such intimacy with the local context, and familiarity with proven international strategies, allows our team to successfully innovate solutions from within.
Meet Our Founders
Peter, our founder, is the main driving-force behind reap. From the outset, Peter was ably supported by his wife and reap co-founder, Lynda, until her untimely passing in October 2022. Today, Peter continues to lead the team—all highly experienced and successful in their particular areas of expertise—assisting our clients to surpass their agri-business investment goals.
Peter and Lynda met at the University of Queensland where they both achieved honours degrees in tropical agricultural science, and their 40-year love-story began. From a young age, they were both introduced to the joys of primary production, and relished opportunities to explore unknown lands, which honed their adventurous spirits! Together, they determined to go wherever the need to advance agriculture was most pressing. Subsequently, they happily moved to Botswana in 2002 with their four young children, working and residing in Africa for the next 20 years. Peter lives today in rural Tanzania.
Who's on the team?
Peter Schuurs
Phinias Chokera
Andy Kigozi
Jon McLea
Klaas Becker
Charles Barratt
Independent Partners
reap partner with a number of firms who operate in an ethical and accountable manner. Through our synergistic business relationships, we accelerate processes to achieve our compatible objectives. These include, raising productivity in the primary industries sector through regenerative agriculture, sustainable processing and value-addition, while supporting rural development in East Africa through economic empowerment.