Our Team
Christopher Plummer
Founder and CEO of AFRICAN SLABS, Christopher Plummer is an architect, luxury furniture and interior designer. With a passion for delivering quality products from the African continent, Christopher spends his time traveling across borders in search of the most sustainable timber he can find. After his recent venture in The Republic of Gabon he was inspired by the degree of sustainable timber production the nation facilitated. This prompted him to launch AFRICAN SLABS in partnership with Gabonese and other African timber concessions.
Tony Romano
As lead partner and Managing Director, Tony has a wealth of experience in the custom design business and enjoys the process of breathing new life into antique furniture. Always hunting for new and exciting challenges, Tony joined the AFRICAN SLABS team to apply his skills and connections toward building and selling new creations using our tantalizing collection of luxury African hardwoods. He will likely never lose his passion for refurbishing lost treasures, but the prospect of forging new and uniquely beautiful furniture was too hard to resist.
Based in Austin, Texas Tony is responsible for the creation and distribution of our high end furniture collection and is looking forward to growing his network and developing his style alongside the AFRICAN SLABS team.
Nathalie Walsh
AFRICAN SLABS Sales Representative, Nathalie Walsh is a native Texan with global vision. Her extensive experience in specialty sales and small business consulting has been guided by a commitment to creating organic client experiences. She believes in growing our business as well as our community by providing thoughtfully personalized assistance with approachable professionalism. Her background in photography and design is reflected by her discerning eye for distinctively classic style.
Ray Willbern
Ray first arrived in Africa to play a DJ set at a music festival in Malawi and hasn't left for long since. During his travels to more than a dozen Sub-Saharan African nations over the course of 11 years, Ray has learned several new languages while building an impressive array of contacts in business, diplomacy, finance, legal, media and politics. He has leveraged his first hand experience and personal network to launch East African Solutions, focused on facilitating trade and investment in East Africa and beyond. Many of the projects his firm takes on involve the complex negotiations and exploration involved with the reliable and sustainable sourcing of natural resources.
At AFRICAN SLABS, Ray is responsible for sourcing materials. This includes local and international government compliance surrounding sustainability as well as the negotiation of fair contracts and agreements with all stakeholders.
Brian Ayo
Born and raised in Arusha town; having traveled to many places across the country, Brian has a vast knowledge of the local terrain and people of Northern Tanzania. With a Bachelor’s degree in Marketing from Catholic University of Eastern Africa in Nairobi, Kenya, he began and successfully runs his own transport and distribution business, Timely Trucking Company. With a new vision for a better, more sustainable economy for the people of Tanzania as a whole, Brian has partnered up with AFRICAN SLABS as our East African Logistics Coordinator. Brian’s company is the only company we entrust our East African logistics to due to the specificity of our timber handling and transportation.
Joshua Martin
With a strong work ethic and positive attitude, Joshua has built a successful and aptly named graphic design and photography business called “Dream Fighter”. He truly embodies the spirit of his brand and is always growing his repertoire of skills and experience across the beautiful nation of Tanzania. The AFRICAN SLABS team is grateful to have formed a partnership with such a talented young man who is capable of capturing and showcasing our companies unique story and exceptional product.
Aiden Campbell
Inspired by a multicultural upbringing in his home state of Colorado, Aiden pursued a degree in International Relations that lead him to study and work abroad in Beijing, Singapore, Thailand, Japan, South Africa, and now Tanzania. His wide variety of experience spans the fields of education, food service, film, music, sales, digital marketing, business development, and hardwood floor construction. With AFRICAN SLABS, Aiden found an ideal opportunity to craft meaningful narratives and marketing campaigns around an enterprise that truly places human dignity and conservation of our natural world at the forefront.