Meet the Team
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Christian Nissen
Managing Director
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Christian Nissen
Managing Director
Christian founded Highland Game in 1997. From day one, his ambition was to drive the Scottish venison industry forward and make venison readily available in UK.
Christian is very much involved in all aspects of the business, backed by a highly experienced Management team he has fulfilled his vision of supplying all market segments; leading restaurant distributors, quality butchers and deli shops, as well as many of the leading supermarkets in UK with our multi award winning Highland Game brand.
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David Soutar
Management Accountant
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David Soutar
Management Accountant
David is responsible for all of Highland Game's Financial and Human Resource matters with a business degree and 30 years' experience in private industry. He is also responsible for liaising with our private Estates and other raw material suppliers as well as the coordination of Highland Game's internal logistics. David is the "right hand man" of our Managing Director.
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Evelyn Wilson
Sales & Office Manager
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Evelyn Wilson
Sales & Office Manager
Evelyn is responsible for Highland Games customer service, order processing and enquiries besides transport issues. She is monitoring the order trail from orders taken to despatch and shipment. Her role includes key account management of all multiple retail customers.
Evelyn has 20 years of experience within food production. She is controlling a number of customised order systems for our varied customer base from national retail chains and distributors to individual Butcher and Deli shops. Evelyn is also coordinating our export sales.
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Kirsty Macdonald
Technical and Procurement Manager
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Kirsty Macdonald
Technical and Procurement Manager
Kirsty is responsible for the maintenance of our venison supply base. Her key roles involve supporting suppliers with:
The Technical and Quality aspects of Hill to Plate venison production by auditing, training and the promotion of Quality Assurance accreditation and Best Practice.
Collection and transport of carcasses ensuring an efficient service.
Tender and pricing for the purchase of venison.
Kirsty has worked within the food industry for 21 years, 11 years with Highland Game as Quality Systems Manager. Recently Kirsty taken on this new position where instead of working predominantly on food safety within the factory she is now focusing more on the Supply side of the business.
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Jo Dalrymple
Operations & Technical Manager
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Jo Dalrymple
Operations & Technical Manager
Jo is head of Highland Game’s food safety management systems. The role is to ensure that food safety, legal requirements and quality standards of retail products are met.
Her work is to make sure that our factory meets and works to the legislation laid out in EC852/2004 & 853/2004.
Jo and her team are monitoring a Quality System that is accurate and represent the true record of our company’s production. She is also in charge of training needs, recognising and ensuring that they are satisfied, making sure that staff are aware and follow hygiene requirements.
Jo is handling retail & third party audits plus internal audits relating to retail business and follows up on feedback from auditors.
Jo is working closely with the Production Manager, the Quality Systems Manager, Sales team and our Managing Director regarding technical issues and customer specifications.
Her team, is conducting chemical control, microbiology sampling, analysis and trending.
The technical division ensures that the processing and site standards, policies and procedures provide the set standard for our retail market and consumers.
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Euan Ross
Sales & Marketing Manager
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Euan Ross
Sales & Marketing Manager
Euan is responsible for building our core customer relationships program and developing new business opportunities for Highland Game and Outlandish primarily in UK retail.
Key to its success is developing coherent joint retailer category plans that align our exciting products to the ever changing needs of our retail customers and their consumers.
Euan has 20 years business development and account management experience, 10 of them within food production.
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Adam Fisk
Commercial Manager
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Adam Fisk
Commercial Manager
Adam is responsible for building and maintaining our non-retail business across foodservice, independent retail, online with 3rd party manufacturers.
With a wide range of product and customer experience, Adam is well-placed to help your business reach more consumers with high quality venison.
Adam has 15 years' experience working with meat, poultry and speciality manufacturers supplying all UK markets.
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Monika Soczynska
Production & Quality Manager
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Monika Soczynska
Production & Quality Manager
Monica manages the smooth process of our Production & Quality Systems thereby ensuring our food safety policies are implemented and the company’s aims and objectives are achieved.
Monica is gathering, controlling and monitoring food safety & processing records from intake to finished products. She is also coordinating micro test samples of products, surfaces, water and shelf life checks, plus assisting with internal and 3rd party audits.
Monica is carrying out the induction and follow up training of all production staff.
She is liaising with suppliers & contractors relating to production and processing, as well as with Food Standard Agency staff.
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Szymon Pilarczyk
Production & Quality Manager
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Szymon Pilarczyk
Production & Quality Manager
Szymon manages the smooth process of our Production & Quality Systems thereby ensuring our food safety policies are implemented and the company's aims and objectives are achieved.
Szymon is gathering, controlling and monitoring food safety & processing records from intake to finished products. She is also coordinating micro test samples of products, surfaces, water and shelf life checks, plus assisting with internal 3rd party audits.
Szymon is carrying out induction and follow up training for added value staff.
He is liaising with suppliers & contractors relating to production and processing, as well as with Food Standards Agency staff.
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Lesley McCulloch
Office Administrator
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Lesley McCulloch
Office Administrator
Lesley is the first point of contact at our front desk when you call or arrive at Highland Game.
She is responsible for processing the Retail orders to despatch and the booking of the transport for retail.
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Tracey Marr
Accounts Assistant
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Tracey Marr
Accounts Assistant
Tracey covers a wider range of financial admin areas including credit control, bank reconcilliations, payroll, supplier invoice and data entry. In addition she assists on deer supplier data system input and intake spreadsheets.