Tim Williams

Tim Williams is the owner of Fieldwork Coffee and the World AeroPress Championship.

Since starting in coffee over twenty years ago, Tim has developed and lead renowned specialty coffee brands across three continents, with a focus on building quality-driven coffee sourcing, roasting, and retailing operations.

He's held senior roles with Workshop Coffee and Square Mile Coffee Roasters in London, as well as Intelligentsia Coffee & Tea in Los Angeles, and collaborated on Maison Kitsuné's 'Cafe Kitsuné' coffee bar in Paris.

Today, Tim lives in Melbourne and divides his time between running Bureaux Coffee, the World AeroPress Championship, and the Gitesi Project, and raising three young children with partner, Leah. 

Tim can be reached at gitesi@timwilliams.co

Aime Gahizi

Aimé Gahizi is a civil engineer with 15 years experience across many projects, who has joined his father in 2011 in their coffee business, due to the love and passion he has in coffee.

Today, Aimé is leading the business and has built upon the foundation of highest quality, fully washed coffees by introducing naturally-processed coffee to the range. He's also recently started roasting his own coffee for the local market.

Aimé is living in Rwanda and divides his time between running Gitesi Coffee Washing Station, various construction projects, the Gitesi Project, and raising two young children with partner, Ange.

He can be reached at gahipapi@gitesicoffee.com

Gitesi Washing Station

Gitesi Project is based around the coffee washing station of the same name, located just outside Gitesi village in the Karongi region of Rwanda. Operated by father and son Alexis and Aime Gahizi, the washing station is part of a radical rebuilding effort in the region following the Rwandan genocide that levelled their village community in the 1990s. 

The road for Gitesi has not been easy, but after years of financial tumult, a Technoserve program allowed the Gahizi family to partner with an exporter to both realise and develop the quality of their coffee. This effort brought the station from near-bankruptcy in 2010 to a Cup of Excellence winning facility in 2012.

Today the station produces up to three containers of top-quality, traceable coffee each year, and is an important source of support for the surrounding community of smallholder farmers.