Our Team

MEET OUR TEAM

Douglas Reid Patterson
Director
Sales and Investment
Douglas Patterson is one of the company's founding principals and is the director of Island Property with overall responsibility for property sales and development projects such as the company's own subdivisions, commercial and tourism investment projects.
He has been selling Vanuatu real estate since 1990. He also carried out property valuations for Vanuatu's commercial banks for some 15 years, although he no longer does this, in order to concentrate on Island Property's own development projects.
Douglas has lived in Vanuatu since 1986, and is a Vanuatu naturalised citizen.
He is also active in local charity work, such as the well known Paramedic Ambulance Service "ProMedical" of which he was founding chairman, a position he has held for nearly 10 years. Douglas is also the creator of "Kranki Kona" the regular cartoon which has been published in Vanuatu's national newspaper The Daily Post since 2001.

Kaye L. Kaufmann-Patterson
Director
Administration
Kaye has lived in Vanuatu since 1992.
Three decades of administration and office management experience in the US, the UK and Vanuatu has given Kaye the knowledge and experience to oversee the day to day management of the busy Island Property office, where she has overall responsibility for managing the company, staffing, banking, and property management.

Jean Claude Emelee
Lead Sales Agent and Consultant
Sales
Jean Claude Emelee is the newest addition to Island Property as a sales agent and consultant.
At 30 years of age he brings over 10 years of experience in business administration, private enterprise and public sector advisory roles. He has managed multiple portfolios in the tertiary and transport sector while maintaining multiple public advisory roles in parallel.
He holds a degree in Management and Public Administration from Montpellier Management University and is a great networker.
Jean Claude takes a practical, client-focused approach and has a strong understanding of both local systems and international standards. He’s known for being approachable, extremely friendly, and always willing to make time for a chat. He is fluent in English, French, and Bislama and works comfortably across a range of clients and projects.”
