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About us

We're creating a future where nature and automation work in tandem to solve the food waste and climate crisis.
Goterra's Modular Biological Services (MIB unit on site at Lendlease

Our company

At Goterra, we believe climate change is the crisis of our time. We exist to help solve it.

We’re reimagining a future where nature and automation work in tandem to solve complex problems like reducing food waste and securing our food supply chain. We’re creating that future today, with modular, autonomous insect farms converting food waste into sustainable protein and fertiliser.

Born in Canberra, expanding globally, our circular economy infrastructure is making a genuine impact. We’re part of a community of unreasonable companies solving pressing global problems.

 

Origin story

Meet our executive team

We’re powered by our mission and led by our founder. Our expertise in engineering, manufacturing, software, electronics, agriculture, biology and environmental science help us solve wicked problems together.

Olympia Yarger

Founder & CEO

Olympia has a global vision to decentralise food waste management with insect-powered, smart city infrastructure. As Goterra’s chief executive and evangelist, she’s redefining food waste culture in Australia and creating sustainable feed options for our farmers. A founding Director of the Insect Protein Association of Australia, she’s an active advocate and mentor for the emerging insect farming industry, women in STEM and promoting agtech as a career path for young people.

A species of soldier fly is named after her: Hermetia Olympiae!

Gerry Li

Head of Engineering

Gerry Li, MIEAust, CPEng, NER, APEC Engineer, IntPE (Aus), RPEQ, MBA, is a Chartered Professional Engineer – CPEng by Engineers Australia, Registered Professional Engineer of Queensland-RPEQ, and Professional Engineer-P.Eng, by APEGA, Canada with over 30 years of experience in Oil & Gas, Mining, OEM, EPCM, Petrochemical, Heavy Mobile Equipment, Food & Beverage, Packaging & FMCG, O&M, Facility Integrity, R&D/Prototype and Asset Life-Cycle Management industries.

He has a proven track record of successfully leading multi-site manufacturing plants daily operations with R&D, engineering & design, Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, Operations & Maintenance, IT, HR, procurement & logistics, sales, with full P&L management responsibility. He delivered 5% overall efficiency improvement and a strong balance sheet for 4 years in a row. Gerry has solid organisational, relationship & team building, decision making, problem solving skills in a broad range of diverse and challenging leadership roles having worked for National Oilwell Varco-NOV Inc. and University of Calgary and other high growth companies.

Gerry is enthusiastic to support growing the organization with innovative ideas, outside of box thinking, and proactive & holistic approaches and making Goterra solutions to benefit the generations to come.

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Goterra represents where we need to be as a global community. Combining natural biological systems with smart tech to change our carbon and ecological footprint for the better.

Lucy Sharman, Sustainability Manager, Lendlease

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