David
With more than 25 years of international industrial experience, David’s work sits at the intersection of engineering, forestry, timber-based industries, energy systems, and industrial economics. His background in aerospace engineering and materials science informs a system-level approach to industrial development, where technologies, processes, logistics, markets, and economics must function together under real-world operating conditions.
At Nordkey, David leads technical development, industrial architecture, and system integration across forest-based manufacturing and energy-related ventures. His role is to translate market vision, resource realities, and commercial objectives into coherent, buildable industrial systems that can be executed under changing regulatory, supply-chain, and market conditions. This includes defining technical pathways and ensuring that design decisions remain aligned with timing, capital exposure, operational risk, and economic performance.
David integrates engineering design with financial modelling and techno-economic analysis to test feasibility, assess risk, and inform decision-making at each stage of project development. He works closely with commercial and finance teams to ensure that technical configurations, capacity choices, and operating assumptions are reflected accurately in capital expenditure, operating cost, and performance models, supporting robust investment and structuring decisions.
He works closely with equipment manufacturers, technology providers, and engineering partners to shape plant configuration, process integration, and performance envelopes appropriate to each project’s strategic intent and market positioning. Rather than optimising isolated components, he focuses on whole-system performance, resilience, and adaptability over the life of an asset.
Through this integrated, execution-oriented role, David helps de-risk industrial ventures by aligning technical design, financial assumptions, feedstock strategy, energy systems, logistics, and operational planning, ensuring that Nordkey’s projects progress beyond concept into operating industrial assets that perform as intended and retain long-term competitiveness.
Maike
With more than 30 years of international industrial experience, Maike focuses on aligning industrial capability with market demand, financial viability, and commercial timing, ensuring that industrial ventures are positioned to compete and grow in real-world markets.
At Nordkey, she leads commercial strategy, market development, and value-chain execution across forest-based industrial ventures. Her role spans financial modelling, business-case development, and revenue-pathway structuring, providing robust, investable commercial foundations for projects at every stage of development. She works closely with technical teams to translate production capability into clear market propositions, credible pricing strategies, and scalable marketing and sales frameworks.
Maike brings deep experience in market entry, customer and offtake development, and sales execution across international markets. She supports projects through early client engagement, sales-pipeline development, contract structuring, and long-term commercial positioning, ensuring alignment between production realities, customer requirements, and financial performance.
Beyond markets and sales, Maike plays a central role in stakeholder engagement with clients, partners, and host communities. She supports the development of local capability through skills development, workforce integration, and operational readiness, helping ensure that industrial projects are commercially successful while also embedded within and supported by the communities in which they operate.
Her background in international procurement, certification systems, and cross-border operations enables Nordkey to operate effectively in complex, fast-moving environments where compliance, logistics, and market access are decisive. Through this integrated commercial and engagement-led approach, Maike ensures that Nordkey’s industrial ventures are not only technically sound, but commercially viable, market-ready, and socially durable.
Nordkey exists to strengthen and develop the long-term economic viability of forest-based industries and communities by unlocking unrealised value across local, regional, and global markets.
We work with existing industries and workforces to transition forest-based systems toward growth-oriented value chains, ensuring that local capability, talent, and infrastructure are retained, developed, and repositioned to capture new market opportunities and sustain resilient regional economies over time.
Nordkey’s mission is to identify where local forest resources, market realities, existing industrial capability, and workforce talent can be aligned with emerging growth opportunities across regional and international markets, and to translate that alignment into investable, operable industrial ventures.
We combine up-to-date international market vision with deep technical understanding and on-the-ground execution to support the sustainable transition of forest-based industries and workforces toward growth-oriented value chains.
In doing so, we help build long-term economic viability by ensuring that forest resources are utilised responsibly, local capability and talent are supported and developed through opportunity, and industrial systems remain competitive across evolving market conditions and cycles.
Integrity
We do not shape projects around what is convenient to sell or easiest to approve. We commit to clear, evidence-based positions and transparent trade-offs.
Stewardship and Long-Term Responsibility
Forest-based industrial development is a long-horizon responsibility. We prioritise sustained value creation, responsible resource use, and durable benefit over short-term extraction, short-lived optimisation, or headline outcomes.
Respect for Place, People, and Participation
Industrial success depends on local capability, trust, and long-term participation in the value chain. We commit to development that strengthens communities and regions through tangible outcomes and enduring legitimacy.
Quality and Safety as a Baseline
We treat engineering quality, operational reliability, and safety as foundational. We do not accept standards that compromise asset performance, workforce wellbeing, or long-term operability.
Fairness and Aligned Incentives
We build relationships and structures where roles are clear, incentives are aligned, and risk is carried with responsibility. We avoid arrangements that create hidden dependencies, misaligned outcomes, or unfair risk transfer.
Learning and Adaptation
We commit to staying current and improving continuously. When facts change, we update decisions accordingly. Rigid adherence to outdated assumptions is treated as a risk.
Market-informed judgement
We maintain a continuous, real-time view of international markets, policy direction, technology evolution, and competitive dynamics, grounded in local market realities and unrealised value potential. Decisions are taken with both immediate conditions and long-term positioning in view.
Decisive action with consequence awareness
Timing is often critical. We act decisively as conditions shift, while remaining attentive to technical, commercial, and operational implications over the life of the asset.
Whole-system integration
Forestry, timber-based industries, energy systems, logistics, finance, and markets are treated as a single interconnected system. We design and execute at system level to ensure progress in one area does not create hidden fragility elsewhere.
Ownership through execution and operations
We do not disengage at handover. Leadership remains involved through execution, commissioning, and into operations where required, supporting stabilisation, optimisation, and adaptation as operating or market conditions evolve.
Partnership with aligned responsibility
We work through long-term, project-specific partnerships built on clearly defined roles, aligned incentives, and appropriate allocation of responsibility. We avoid transactional structures that obscure accountability or weaken long-term asset performance.
