Our Management Team
Batian Flowers boasts a management team that is a unique blend of professionals. Each individual brings unusual and diverse talent enabling Batian Flowers to continue raising the bar of quality and professionalism in the flower industry.
Meet Our Director
Drawing on his more than 20 years experience in growing roses no one understands high quality roses like René. His love of roses began at an early age at his father’s farm in Holland since then he has followed his father’s footsteps in growing quality roses.
René’s strategic thinking has helped keep Batian Flowers as the home to the world’s finest large headed roses; it’s no wonder that our clients and breeders are regularly picking Rene’s brain about their own businesses.
Under his leadership, Batian Flowers has dramatically scaled its infrastructure and diversified its products to always meet the customers changing needs.
Dirk Looy
General Manager
While in Holland more than 18 years ago, Rene met Dirk Looy, and over the years they have worked together and developed Batian Flowers to what it is today.
Despite juggling the demands of being a General Manager, Dirk is a hand-on manager and gets involved in all aspects of Batian Flowers.
“Keeping things simple” is his mantra for keeping Batian Flowers at its peak performance. With his more than 18 years in the flower industry Dirk has invaluable experience and the leadership skills that will help keep Batian Flowers at its best.
Internal Sales & Operations
Driving Internal Sales
Every member of the internal sales department shares the common vision of providing flawless service and information to Upendo Flowers and Asante Maua.
Mercy holds a dual role within Batian Flowers: directing the internal sales team responsible for providing support to our marketers and managing Batian day to day operations. When it comes to giving clients a Batian Experience, no one does it better.
Alice Gathuku
Looking after our Great Staff
At Batian Flowers we fully recognize that our value is our employees and we are proud of the strong, lasting partnerships we build with our employees.
In a career spanning more than 6 years, Alice has rich experience with a background of serving in some of the major companies in the flower industry. This vast experience has enabled her to perfect her people management skills such as policy formulation and dissemination, recruitment, leave management, manpower planning, performance management, training, legal compliance, and general administration among many others.
She believes passionately in fostering employee growth and development.