{"id":1514,"date":"2025-03-25T18:40:18","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T18:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hihotest2.co.nz\/sealord\/?post_type=staffs&#038;p=1514"},"modified":"2025-04-28T02:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T02:29:10","slug":"jason-plato-sealord-nz","status":"publish","type":"staffs","link":"https:\/\/hihotest2.co.nz\/sealord\/staffs\/jason-plato-sealord-nz\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Plato"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Plato has been at Sealord for more than 20 years. Initially based in Nelson, Jason moved to Japan where he opened the Sealord office and ran Sealord\u2019s North Asian business for six years. From there, Jason moved to the US where he was the General Manager of Sealord\u2019s North American operations for seven years. Jason moved back to NZ in 2008 to take up the role of General Manager International Marketing and ran Sealord\u2019s international sales and marketing network.&lt;\/p<\/p><p>In 2013 Jason established Sealord\u2019s Australian office and took on the role of&nbsp; General Manager Consumer responsible for brand, Sealord\u2019s sales into Australia and NZ, as well as Sealord\u2019s Australian based aquaculture operations, Petuna Aquaculture and King Reef, of which he is a director of both.<\/p><p>Jason is now responsible for all group sales. He resides in New Zealand sharing his time between Australia and New Zealand.<\/p><p>For Jason&#8217;s &#8220;unofficial&#8221; bio click\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sealord.com\/about-us\/board-and-leadership-team\/jason-plato-unofficial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p><p><\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":1515,"template":"","staff-category":[66],"class_list":["post-1514","staffs","type-staffs","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","staff-category-our-executive-team"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hihotest2.co.nz\/sealord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staffs\/1514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hihotest2.co.nz\/sealord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staffs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hihotest2.co.nz\/sealord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/staffs"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hihotest2.co.nz\/sealord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hihotest2.co.nz\/sealord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"staff-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hihotest2.co.nz\/sealord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff-category?post=1514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}