Nicko brings more than 38 years of experience working on cocoa and other raw material value chains. He started his career in cocoa in Nigeria in the 1980’s, working directly with cocoa farmers. Nicko possesses unique expertise in developing and introducing pioneering traceable and sustainable systems in collaboration with governments in origin countries in Africa, Asia and LATAM. He established Sustainability Solutions in 2021 to support companies and institutions with developing and operationalising their sustainability strategy. Nicko has also worked for Barry Callebaut, as Head of Sustainability and Chairman of Cocoa Horizons Foundation, establishing the Forever Chocolate strategy, having previously worked for Armajaro as Head of Sustainability and Chairman of Source Trust, as well as being a founding Director of Geotraceability. Nicko was also the Chairman of the World Cocoa Foundation for 2013/2014.