Ron Mulder

Ron Mulder is the proprietor of New Forest WA, a company that started in 1995 specialising in the propagation and supply of Western Australian sandalwood trees as a combatant to the growing problems of salinity in rural Western Australia. Together with Keith Drage, he established WA Sandalwood Plantations (WASP) in 2001. As the director of Forestry at WASP, Mr Mulder oversees all of the company's forest estate management. In September 2017, together with Keith Drage, he became the co-founder and director of Dutjahn Sandalwood Oils, a 50% indigenous-owned sandalwood oil refinery based in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia.