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He has led and overseen IFC investments in the beverage sector, agri traders, PE agribusiness funds, farming/primary production and consumer foods across East and SE Asia, Latin America and Africa. He has spent 12 years working with the IFC and has also served as COO of a company controlling one of the largest food/agribusiness companies in SE Asia.

He holds an MBA from Stanford Business School. Sherman Black is a seasoned leader with extensive senior executive experience at both public and private companies in the IT infrastructure and software industry, including Qumu, Rimage, and Seagate Technology. He has led businesses and built high performing teams in all stages of the business lifecycle, from growth to harvest. Sherman brings a deep, hands-on understanding of creating and launching new products, designing and building sales and marketing models and driving operational improvements.

Sherman’s journey to Conservis brings him full circle back to his rural roots. Mr Boniaszczuk is a Regional Head in the Agribusiness team at the EBRD, covering Ukraine. Boniaszczuk has nearly 20 years of experience in the finance sector in Europe and the United States. For the past nine years Mr. Boniaszczuk has been involved in investing in the agri, FMCG and food retail sectors in Central and Eastern Europe and Russia.

Before becoming a banker, Mr Boniaszczuk practiced as an attorney at a number of international law firms in New York and London where he worked on banking and capital market transactions. Boniaszczuk holds a law degree from Gdansk University in Poland and a master of laws diploma from Columbia University in New York. Peter Bryde, Executive Vice President, CEO WGE, joined Westchester in September 2017, prior to which he had worked for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (‘EBRD’) for a combined 18 years. The majority of Peter’s time with EBRD was spend in their agribusiness department where Peter ultimately progressed to Deputy Director. During the last 4 years at EBRD, Peter looked after EBRD’s direct equity portfolio with about 200 investments with a cost of around Euro 4.5bn. In between Peter’s two stints at EBRD, Peter worked for Standard Bank heading up their Agribusiness department, looking at agribusiness opportunities in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union and to a lesser extent in South America. Peter is a Danish national and has a master’s degree in finance from Copenhagen Business School.

David Buckeridge is a Partner of Paine Schwartz Partners. Buckeridge has more than 25 years of management experience in the life science and agribusiness industries. He was an Operating Director at the Predecessor Firm, which he joined in 2006.

He was previously the CEO of Advanta, the largest independent agronomic seed business in the world at the time and a Fund II portfolio company. David began his career with the multinational pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, spending approximately 20 years in a variety of management positions. During this time, he spent approximately eight years in the agrochemicals business, holding several management positions with a European focus.

He also spent five years in Des Moines, Iowa, running the commercial operations for AstraZeneca’s seeds business in the U.S. During this time, as part of the management team, he substantially restructured the sales and marketing organization, increasing the quality and the professionalism of the personnel and restoring profitability to the business. David is chairman of the board of directors of Scanbio Marine Group and serves on the boards of directors of Rivulis Irrigation, Spearhead International, and Verdesian Life Sciences. He also serves on the board of directors of Velcourt, a UK-based farm management company. He has a Bachelor of Science and Ph.D.

In genetics and plant sciences from the University of Wales (UK) and was raised in London, England. Mark is a Senior Advisor to Consilium Capital, an FCA regulated corporate finance boutique focused on sustainable investment opportunities and impact investing. Mark has twenty seven years experience in sustainable financial markets working for major institutional asset management companies, where is a co-founder of the Ecology funds business at Jupiter Asset Management in 1989, the £1 billion Global Care Fund range at Henderson Global Investors, and the $2 billion fund Sustainable Future fund range at AMP Capital. Mark now specialises in advising private equity funds in frontier markets, focused on agro-forestry, agriculture and renewable energy. Mark served on the World Business Council for Sustainable Development working group on capital markets leading up to the 1992 Earth Summit; was a Member of the Steering Committee of UNEP Financial Sector Initiative (1999-2003). Mark is a Founder Director of the UK Sustainable and Responsible Investment Forum (UKSIF), 1990-2006, is a member of the Advisory Council of ImpactBase.org; a member of the Advisory Board of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation’s ‘Conservation and Markets Initiatives’; a member of UNCTAD’s Sustainable Stock Exchange’s Green Finance Advisory Group; and is the Hon Treasurer of The Rainforest Foundation UK.

Mark is also Founder of the Social Stock Exchange, funded by Rockefeller Foundation. He is Executive Director of the Carbon Tracker Initiative and Chairs the Fish Tracker Initiative, funded by Mava Foundation. Mark has a BA in Politics & Economic History and an M.Sc in Agricultural Economics.

Jim Castles helps leads the global sales team at Geosys as the Director of Sales Australasia. In this role he is charged with continued growth in Australia and expansion into the Asian region with the adoption of satellite technology into precision agriculture. With the rapid growth in satellite data, weather station and cloud based data technology, coupled with the capabilities of the internet to deliver information anywhere, Jim works with customers in market segments across the agriculture value chain. Before joining Geosys in 2013, Jim held positions with Topcon Precision Agriculture and GPS-Ag. These companies drove his passion for precision Ag through the role out and implementation of the Auto Steer and Variable rate resulting in rapid adoption in his region.

Alastair Cooper is a Partner and Head of Early Stage Investments at ADM Capital. Alastair spent 18 years as an Investment Banker, 16 years of which were at Morgan Stanley, within the Equity Division, as a Managing Director based in London and Hong Kong. His responsibilities included Head of European Derivatives, Proprietary Trading and Head of Asian Equity. Upon leaving Morgan Stanley in 2002, Alastair completed the One Year Farming Course at the Royal Agricultural College and has managed his own mixed organic farm since. As an active private investor, Alastair has made a number of investments within renewable energy and agriculture.

Alastair holds a BSc in Zoology from Exeter University, England. Ivan is the co-founder and Managing Partner of Five Seasons Ventures, one of the first venture capital funds to focus on FoodTech companies in Europe. The fund is expected to start investing in 2018. He has been an active venture investor since 1997 when he started with the first venture fund at Deutsche Bank in London. From 2000 to 2013 he was one of the founding partners of Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures where he focused on investments in early stage technology companies in Europe and US. His experience includes structuring venture investments, organizational development, setting up governance for growth and planning for successful exits. Ivan was an early stage investor in Tridion BV (acquired by SDL Plc), Gomez, Inc.

(acquired by Compuware), Everbridge, Inc. (Nasdaq: EVBG), Plazes AG (acquired by Nokia), Garlik Ltd (acquired by Experian) and Fourth Dimension Displays Ltd (acquired by Kopin). He is a former Board Member and EIR at Seedcamp, and an advisor to StartUpBootcamp Foodtech. He started his career at Bain & Co in Italy, received an MBA from Insead, France and an undergraduate business degree from Bocconi, Italy. In his spare time he enjoys cooking, fly fishing and martial arts.

Ivan lives in London with wife Marie and baby Adam. The ISIF is a fund of €7 billion and part of the National Treasury Management Agency. ISIF has a mandate to Invest on a commercial basis to areas of productive investment in the Irish economy in order to support economic activity and employment. The fund will have the flexibility to make investments across the capital structure of companies and projects, both debt and equity, and across a range of investment types and sectors. Prior to joining ISIF Cathal worked in a private Agri consultancy company where he advised Banks and corporates on their Agri-food Investment and loan portfolios. He worked with the Irish Dairy Board from 1997 to 2012 in various senior finance and corporate finance roles and Finance Director from 2004. He lead the M&A function for this period completing 15 transactions.

He joined the Irish Dairy Board from Price Waterhouse. Cathal holds a BComm from UCD, is a Chartered Accountant and a member of the Irish Association of Corporate Treasurers. Paul Frankel is a partner at Kachina LLC, an agricultural asset manager; and a general partner at Ecosa Properties, an ag land developer and owner. He also advises specialty food and beverage clients on management, strategy, corporate development, intellectual and real property acquisition, marketing, and sales.

Previously, Mr. Frankel was managing partner of Ecosa Capital, providing expansion financing to growth stage companies in the clean energy, green building, and sustainable agriculture markets. He was a lead author of the IPCC’s 5th Assessment Report, co-founder and vice-chairman of the Wi-Fi Alliance, and he has held adjunct faculty appointments at UC Berkeley and Stanford University. Frankel earned a BA in political science and economics from the University of Arizona, and a MBA from Thunderbird School of Global Management. Gaboury joined FMO, the Dutch development bank, in October 2015 as the global Director of Agribusiness. As a strategic sector for FMO, she is responsible for the direction and focus of FMO’s private sector investments in more than 85 developing and emerging markets and a team of some 50 professionals.

With a global population increasing to over 9 billion, and fewer available resources, agribusiness is a priority for FMO. To help meet these challenges focus is on investments across the value chain: (I) enhancing food security, (II) supporting sustainability and (III) promoting inclusive development in an environmentally viable and socially inclusive manner. Prior to joining FMO, Ms. Gaboury was a Managing Director of Cordiant Capital, a private emerging market fund manager for 9 years in Montreal. She was responsible for a portfolio of more than US$ 525 million in debt and quasi-equity investments, as well as oversight of the US$ 211 million Canada Investment Fund for Africa, a private equity fund, on behalf of investors and the Canadian government.

While with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) for 14 years in London as Senior Banker, Ms. Gaboury pioneered new private sector investment programmes to capitalize on emerging business opportunities in the former Soviet Union and CIS. She drove US$ 1.5 billion in debt and equity investments, directed business origination, and credit and quality control to attract inward investments for private sector projects. Gaboury holds a BA (Economics) from the University of Alberta and an MBA from the UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, Ireland.

David Gray is currently Senior Advisor to Altima Partners in London. He joined Altima in 2005 after almost 25 years as an investment banker, during which he advised, raised capital for and restructured companies across a number of industrial sectors globally. At Altima, David has worked principally on illiquid investments for the funds, and since 2007 had specific responsibility for illiquid investments in the agriculture sector totaling almost $600 million and located on four continents. He successfully sold three of these investments between 2015 and 2016. In addition to Altima, David serves on the board of AAG, a leading Australian agriculture asset manager and advises companies across the ag sector. He has an M.A.

(Hons) from Oxford University and completed the Executive Program at the Darden Graduate School of Business, University of Virginia. Douglas Hawkins is the Managing Director of Hardman Agribusiness, a London based capital markets advisory firm focused on the international agribusiness value chain. Hardman Agribusiness has a particular specialism in the large-scale tropical tree crop sector, including the production of cocoa across Africa, the Americas, Asia and Oceania. Douglas has combined a lifelong involvement with agriculture, with a 30-year career in equity capital markets research and investment banking, principally with James Capel & Co, Nomura International and Hardman Agribusiness. For the past 30 years, Douglas and his wife have farmed beef cattle under an organic certification in England.

Since March 2016, Douglas has been a non-executive director of Andean Cacao Ltd, a cocoa production business, including plantations and out-grower schemes, now being established in the departments of Boyaca and Meta in the Central and Eastern Regions of Colombia respectively. Rob is co-CEO of Agriculture Capital, a manager of permanent crop funds focused on creating customer driven, appropriately scaled, vertically integrated, and regenerative food systems that expand access to better, healthier food while providing healthy returns to investors. Today Agriculture Capital is farming almost ten thousand acres and employs hundreds of people on operations in California, Oregon and Australia. Rob has over 30 years of experience in the food and agricultural industries distinguished by his ability to build value through the development of transparent supply chains that deliver on a clear consumer promise. As CEO of Niman Ranch, Rob created the industry’s leading premium meat brand. Attune Foods, founded by Rob, was subsequently acquired by Post Foods to be their strategic platform in the rapidly growing natural food segment.

Rob’s earlier experiences at Nestle managing risk, purchasing commodities, and managing a strategic business, gave him an understanding of the impact that (big) food can have on our planet, people and economy. Aly-Khan is a Partner and Founder of Dalberg’s consulting presence in London, and co-leads the firm’s Agriculture and Food Security expertise area. His experience both within and pre-Dalberg has involved roles in and advisory for the entire agriculture value chain and agro-allied businesses, including upstream inputs supply and manufacturing, commercial as well as smallholder agriculture, post-harvest processing, in-country and international agricultural logistics and trading, agro-processing, and market development for food and beverages companies. Aly-Khan’s experience covers both focusing on individual segments of the value chain or individual crops, to total country and even multi-country level strategies that aim to drive transformational growth in agriculture and agro-processing.

As a result, he often leads projects that either have a strong agribusiness emphasis, or involve systemic transformation in entire agriculture sectors. A recent example includes leading the development of the African Development Bank’s 10-year strategy for Agricultural Transformation in Africa, working directly with President Adesina. He brings both a strategy and investment advisory lens to his agriculture work, and has experience in attracting finance for agricultural investments in multiple emerging countries both for commercial agribusiness projects, as well as projects and programs that involve overcoming challenges to the provision of finance to smallholders. Prior to Dalberg, Mr. Jamal founded Frontier Advisory, a boutique consulting firm dedicated to providing FMCG/Consumer Goods and TMT players with pragmatic organic and acquisition-based entry strategies into emerging and frontier markets. He started his career at OC&C Strategy Consultants in their Paris and London offices.

He holds a Bachelors in Arts from Oxford University in Politics, Philosophy and Economics and a Masters in Economics from McGill University. Stephen Kenney, Vice President and Associate Director, Business Development, is responsible for marketing and business development for HAIG. Previously, Stephen assisted with portfolio management and investment analysis for HAIG’s institutional farmland investment program. Prior to joining HAIG in 2005, Stephen was a business analyst for a securities processing institution responsible for credit risk management and prior to that he held banking and finance positions with Wells Fargo and Morgan Stanley.

Stephen is a member of the NCREIF Farmland Index committee and holds a B.S. In Finance from Iowa State University and a M.S. In Finance from Brandeis University. He also maintains an interest in the family farming operation in Iowa. As Director of Policy & Environmental Advocacy, Brian Kernohan serves across Hancock Natural Resource Group’s global operations and across all three of its businesses – timber, agriculture, and renewable energy. In this capacity, Brian directs Hancock’s global sustainability program, development of policies and environmental compliance mechanisms, and government relations; as related to business and environmental strategies across Hancock’s investments.

Brian is also responsible for advising the company on third-party forest and farmland certification and supporting ecosystem services revenue development and conservation transactions. Brian is a director of PEFC International and member of the Board of Governors of the National Council for Air and Stream Improvement (NCASI).

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Brian is a certified wildlife biologist and holds a BS in Wildlife Ecology from Michigan State University and a MS in Wildlife Management from South Dakota State University. Max Kruse is Vice President Agribusiness at IFU based in Copenhagen and a.o. In charge of the IFU managed Danish Agribusiness Fund, launched in January 2016. He has been with IFU nearly 30 years and has worked in various positions incl.

Postings to Kuala Lumpur and Warsaw. Prior to IFU, Max worked in an engineering company specialised in plants for manufacturing of non-wovens. During a 6 year leave from IFU, Max worked in an engineering company specialised in milling systems and 4 years as Group Deputy Managing Director in a brewery in Nigeria, also comprising farming, milling and soft drinks. Over the last 35 years Max has has been a member of the board of directors of a large number of companies in the countries where IFU is active. Max graduated from Copenhagen University (Law). Arama Kukutai is a co-founder and Partner at Finistere Ventures a pioneer in the Agriculture and Food technology sectors founded in 2005 and actively investing from its second fund. Kukutai has been a company founder and entrepreneur in the Agribusiness sector with over 20 years experience.

He served as Executive Chairman of PKW Farms, a successful agribusiness and diversified investment entity involved in dairy farming and aquaculture activities in New Zealand, Asia and Australia. Arama also led the New Zealand government’s Trade & Investment agency in North America, following which he emigrated to the USA. He has led the creation of Finistere’s global network in Agtech which includes offices in Tel Aviv, San Diego and Silicon Valley, and Dublin, Ireland.

Kukutai serves on the boards as a Director or Observer of current portfolio companies Crop Pro Insurance, CropX, Plenty, Taranis and Zeakal. Kukutai is an active member of the Agtech investing community and regular presenter at leading industry events.

Finistere is one of the leading Agtech focused venture funds and partnered with industry leaders including Agrium, Bayer, Pepsico and International Farming Corporation. “Everything starts from validating an idea” An international speaker and award­‐winning Entrepreneur, Mr. Low has more then a decade of experience in the field of investments and food and beverage.

Low is currently the Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of Agrivo International Limited, an agricultural management and investment company. His eye for details and foresights have since assisted the company and many investors likewise to make informed decisions with regards to investing in the agriculture sector. In 2016, to recognize his contribution between ASEAN and China’s One Belt One Road Policy, the committee of the Chinese Pepper Board conferred him as the Vice­‐President for the Hainan Pepper Association. Meanwhile, together with his team, he is also gearing the company towards the initial public offering in 2020. Website: www.agrivointernational.com Email: joel.low@agrivointernational.com Mobile: +65 9006 2429 Wechat: Joellowqh. Southern Pastures, New Zealand’s largest institutional dairy fund, invests in free-range pastoral dairy farms and associated activities. Maan is responsible for managing the overall portfolio, governance, alpha generation and investor relations.

At the farm level his responsibilities for improving productivity and sustainability are focused on carbon sequestration, bio-diversity, soil biology and feed and water security. Beyond the farm-gate, the focus is on delivering premium dairy products to consumers seeking ‘values’ for money. Maan founded and remains the Chairman of Foundation Capital Ltd, the initiator of Southern Pastures. Foundation Capital’s current project is providing institutional investor funded affordable housing solutions to the public sector. Maan has held various leadership positions in the investment banking industry with major global names in New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia. Maan is also a director of Revolutionary Beekeeping Ltd, a sustainable beekeeping system with patented honey harvesting technology, and Lewis Road Creamery Ltd, New Zealand’s premier dairy products company. Stuart MacDonald is Managing Partner at Bride Valley Partners, which bridges the gaps in corporate finance, investment advisory and capital raising for companies, funds and projects across a range of alternative investments (including agriculture) and technologies.

“A consortium ofexperts” according to the Financial Times, Bride Valley Partners is present in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and North America. Stuart has raised Billions, using an exceptional international network of relevant investor contacts. His industry awards include one for Best Investor Relations globally and two for Outstanding Industry Contribution. He is often invited to Chair and Moderate at top alternative investments conferences.

Stuart produces and presents the award-winning alternative investments radio show, the Naked Short Club on London’s Resonance (104.4 FM in London or, worldwide). He was Visiting Lecturer in Political Economy at London University and serves as Trustee of several voluntary sector organisations.

Tim McGavin is co-founder and CEO of Laguna Bay (formerly named Laguna Bay Pastoral Company), one of the world’s top performing agricultural investment managers with over $300M of assets under management and close to $1B of owned, managed or advised agricultural assets. Laguna Bay has investments in permanent crops, row cropping and livestock across Australia.

Tim was raised on a livestock farm in the outback, Western Queensland, studied agribusiness at the prestigious Marcus Oldham Farm Management College and also holds an MBA. At 20 he started an aerial livestock mustering business in Northern Australia. At 24, Tim purchased a small vineyard with his brother Rob and over the next seven years developed it into one of Australia’s largest privately owned vineyards, partially selling down at the top of the cycle in 2002. Tim is a founding shareholder and advisor to Boundary Bend Ltd, now one of the world’s most awarded and largest olive oil producers.

Laguna Bay allocates capital to both passive and active strategies and has originated two out of the three largest farming deals in Australia over the past three years covering both passive (buy and leaseback) and active (operating) strategies. Tim and his team at LBPC have evaluated over $6B of Australian Ag assets across every sector and geographical region. As CEO, Tim draws on his industry leadership role, experience and agricultural networks to originate some of the largest and highest returning bespoke agricultural deals for institutional investors. Tim is also a non-executive Director of a leading Australian carbon offset producer and renewable energy company.

This experience sets Tim apart combining agricultural, corporate and socially responsible competencies to create large scale investment grade managed financial products. Tom oversees all farming operations for Insight Investments global farmland portfolio. Prior to joining Insight in March 2016, Tom was the Chief Executive Officer of Hassad Australia where he led and managed the establishment of over 300,000 hectares agriculture portfolio and management team across 4 states and a variety of crops and livestock businesses and was responsible for the largest sovereign investment in mainstream Australian agriculture.

Tom holds a Diploma in Applied Science (Agriculture) and has over 35 years’ experience and industry recognition in management of corporate and large scale agricultural projects, irrigation development, water resource management and industry representation covering a wide range of agricultural sectors including sheep, cattle, cotton, grains, sugar, plantation forestry, fruit and vegetables. Tom also has experience at working in Asia, North Africa, Europe and South America. Prior experience includes leadership roles in Rural Funds Management, Great Southern Plantations and Twynam Cotton in Australia. Paul McMahon is a co-founder and partner of SLM Partners, a business that acquires and manages rural land on behalf of institutional investors. With offices in New York, London and Australia, it seeks to scale up regenerative, ecological farming and forestry systems that deliver both financial returns and environmental benefits.

Its first fund – the SLM Australia Livestock Fund – has raised AU$105 million in equity and debt, and acquired more than 1 million acres of land in Australia for grass-fed cattle production. Its second fund – the SLM Silva Fund – will invest in sustainable forestry in Ireland, with the European Investment Bank as anchor investor. SLM Partners is exploring livestock investment opportunities in Chile. The firm is also building a team in New York to launch a new US farmland fund that will focus on organic row crop production. Previously, Paul was Vice-President at Climate Change Capital Ltd, where he led a team developing a strategy for a global farmland fund, and, before that, an Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company in New York. He has published a book on the global food system (Feeding Frenzy: The New Politics of Food), as well as a white papers on investing in ecological farming and continuous cover forestry.

Originally from Ireland, Paul holds a PhD from Cambridge University and a BA from University College Dublin. Simon is a Partner and Investment Committee Member of UK investment advisory firm SilverStreet Capital LLP.

SilverStreet manages two African focused funds (Silverlands I and II) which invest entirely in the regions agriculture sector. The first fund of over $200 million was launched in 2011 and is now fully invested in Eastern and Southern Africa whilst the second fund launched in 2017 is targeting $300 million.

Simon also sits on various operating company boards in Tanzania, Zambia and Mozambique. Before joining SilverStreet in 2011, he worked in the investment industry where he was responsible for developing and investing various infrastructure debt and private equity funds targeting Africa, the Middle-East and South-East Asia.

Richard Ofori-Mante is the Division Manager of the Agriculture and Rural Finance Division of the African Development Bank based in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire. He is an investment and development finance professional with over 16 years international transactional experience in debt capital mar-kets, project and structured finance, with a track record of utilizing innovative financial structures, risk mitigating solutions and credit enhancement instruments to mobilize private capital for infra-structure projects. Richard’s experience includes working with governments and the private sector in the policy and transactional dialogue around the development, structuring and implementation of projects across Africa.

He has extensive experience in developing and working with various financial instruments includ-ing loans, guarantees, risk management products, equity and other instruments administered by Multilateral Development Institutions. Prior to joining the African Development Bank in 2010, Richard was a Manager with Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP in Chicago, USA. Richard holds a MBA degree from the Washington University in Saint Louis, USA and a BSc. (Honors) degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.

He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charter holder. Elizabeth joined Macquarie in 2003. She is a Senior Managing Director based in Sydney.

Elizabeth is responsible for managing investments across the MIRA’s Agriculture platform, including two Macquarie-managed funds; Macquarie Pastoral Fund and Macquarie Crop Partners and a separately managed investment vehicle, with assets in Australia and Brazil. She is a member of the Investment Committee for each of the funds and a board director of Paraway Pastoral Company Limited, Lawson Grains Pty Limited and Cruzeiro do Sul Graos Ltda. Elizabeth’s other roles with Macquarie have been in senior corporate positions in Australia, Asia and the UK, including as a member of MIRA’s asset management team on several flagship European infrastructure investments. Elizabeth was also integral to the success of several transformational acquisitions for Macquarie Group including the acquisition and transition management of Delaware Asset Management from Lincoln Financial in the United States. Raised on a rice, wheat and sheep farm in the Riverina region of Australia, Elizabeth has a long association with and deep knowledge of agribusiness. This includes an active investment in one of Australia’s largest Angus cattle breeding and genetics companies, and ownership of farmland in three states of Australia. Elizabeth is also a board member of the Macquarie Group Foundation (the philanthropic arm of Macquarie Group) and Co-Chair of Good to Great Schools, a not-for-profit organisation that supports education reform in remote indigenous communities across Australia.

Adam Oliver is a Partner at Brown & Co and co-CIO of Agricultural Asset Management. Brown & Co have 20 years experience identifying, sourcing, acquiring and managing agricultural assets and related infrastructure across Central and Eastern Europe and have had a management/ advisory role on c. 750,000 hectares across the region.

Adam is responsible for Brown & Co’s Central European activities which includes working for private investors, family offices and institutions providing investment strategies, deal sourcing, investment appraisals, Due Diligence and post acquisition management. Adam serves on the Board’s of four companies and received a BSc in Agriculture from London University (Wye College). Paul grew up on a farm and has been buying and operating farms on his own account since 1999. Paul founded Farmland Partners in April of 2014 by contributing approximately 7,300 acres of high-quality farmland, mostly in the U.S. Since that time Farmland Partners has continued to grow and now owns approximately $980 million of farmland across 17 states. Before devoting full attention to production agriculture, Paul was a public company CFO (Jazz Technologies), investment banker (Merrill Lynch, Wasserstein Perella) and lawyer (Sullivan & Cromwell). He has a B.S.

In Agriculture from the University of Illinois, an M.P.P. From Harvard University, and a J.D. With Honors from the University of Chicago. Mitchell Presser is the head of Freshfields’ US M&A practice and focuses on global business transactions, including M&A and leveraged buyouts, for international corporations and financial institutions. Mitchell gained his skills and knowledge of the food and agriculture industry through wide experience on both sides of transactions, adviser and principal.

From 2006 to 2013, Mitchell was a founding partner of Paine and Partners LLC, a private equity firm managing a $1.2bn fund focused on investing in food and agribusiness. Previously, Mitchell was a partner at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, where he concentrated on mergers & acquisitions, private equity, leveraged buyouts, corporate governance and securities law matters. Mitchell received his JD from Yale Law School and a BS in accounting from New York University. David is the Managing Director of Growth Farms Australia, a company that specialises in the acquisition and management of agricultural investments in Australia on behalf of separate account and pooled fund investors. Growth Farms has recently closed its first diversified fund with performance to date exceeding targets. The business currently manages over $440m of assets across a diverse range of sectors including cereal and oilseeds, sheep, beef, cotton, sugar and water. Prior to joining Growth Farms, David was a founding partner of Holmes Sackett and Associates, which developed into the leading agricultural consulting business in South East Australia.

He has also had various Board roles in agriculture related entities. Detlef joined Insight in August 2017 as Head of Real Assets. Detlef is responsible for all aspects of Insight’s farmland capability. Detlef has more than four decades of experience in global farming and a multi-billion dollar track record as a senior agribusiness executive. Prior to joining Insight, he was invested in and personally managing grass-fed beef farms in Australia, having led the farmland investment team at Aquila Capital.

At Aquila, he was responsible for implementing a US$500m investment plan, mostly in New Zealand where, at the time, he was responsible for the largest foreign investment in New Zealand agriculture and now is a permanent resident. He started his career with Cargill where he was in charge of the European grain trading business – at the time the leading exporter of grains from the EU and a significant country merchant in the UK.

He then ran his own grain origination company and later the global grain book for NIDERA – at the time the sixth largest grain trader worldwide. Detlef is widely known for his thought leadership and is highly respected in the global institutional investment world for farmland and agribusiness. Rajesh Srivastava is a career Banker with over 37 years of experience in corporate/investment banking in Indian and foreign institutions like Bank of Baroda (12yrs), Lazard Brothers (5yrs) and Rabobank (19years). He has worked across Banks and NBFCs, including setting up Rabo India Finance for Rabobank in 1998. Since 2008, he is the Chairman & Managing Director of Rabo Equity Advisors, managing Rabobank sponsored food and agribusiness private equity funds (AUM US$270mln) as the Managing Partner with 49% shareholding (Rabobank holds 51%). The Funds have blue chip investors like Rabobank; IFC; CDC Group, UK; Asian Development Bank; Generali Insurance, Italy; IFU, Denmark; FMO, The Netherlands; and Proparco, France amongst their investors.

He has so far closed 12 investments (4 more by end 2017), all in different sub-sectors of agribusiness and has made 5 profitable exits. Before setting up the private equity business, he was Managing Director (Corporate & Commercial Banking) of Rabobank India. Concurrently, he was Regional Head, Asia for food and agribusiness for over 5 years based in Singapore. In Rabobank, he is credited with setting up several new products such as Strategic Advisory, Renewable Energy, Carbon Credits and Micro Finance. Two career milestones are a Report on “Vision 2015” for the Ministry of Food Processing and a comprehensive strategy for Rabobank in Asia (“Strategy Asia Inc.) in 2004-05.

Before Rabobank, he was with Lazard Brothers’ Venture Capital arm where he set up the largest VC Fund of the time for SMEs. Rajesh is regarded as a “go-to” resource in agribusiness. He is considered a pioneer in establishing a private equity market for food and agribusiness sector and for advocacy on policies on agriculture/food processing. His most recent initiative is conceptualizing a National Bank for Food Processing to be sponsored by the Ministry of Food Processing, which is expected to be announced in early November. Amongst others, he sits on the CII National Committees on Agriculture, Food Processing and Water.

He chairs CII Northern Regional Committee on Agriculture and Food Processing, and also sits on the Advisory Board of Sasakawa India Leprosy Foundation as his personal commitment to society. He is an Economics and Law graduate and a post graduate in Western History. Heechung is Managing Director of MIRA Agriculture, responsible for equity raising and investor management for the Agriculture platform within MIRA.

Heechung joined Macquarie in 2005 in the Risk Management Group in Sydney. She relocated to the London office and was appointed as the Chief Operation Officer for Macquarie Capital Advisors EMEA. She returned to Sydney and joined the investment management team within the Agriculture business in MIRA.

Prior to joining Macquarie, Heechung was a litigation and corporate lawyer both in private practise and as in house counsel for large ASX and NYSE listed transport and aviation companies. Heechung brings over 20 years professional experience within the legal, corporate and investment banking sectors. She has strong strategy development and project management skills, leading transformational global systems projects as well as executing on business growth strategies including: development of oil and gas capital markets capability and leading the exit of a complex cross border JV arrangement.

After joining the agriculture business, Heechung led the restructure of the operating companies within the funds management platform which resulted in the creation of standalone operating companies headquartered in regional Australia. Heechung has a passion for sustainable investments and is leading MIRA Agriculture’s ESG project across its Funds and assets. Alejandro has ten years experience in agribusiness financing and four years experience in the real estate business. He is a Director and CFO at Soil Capital, managing agribusiness investments with a focus on regenerative agriculture. Previously he worked at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, assessing, structuring, executing and monitoring debt and equity investments in agribusiness companies in Eastern Europe, Russia and Ukraine. He also worked with agribusiness funds, assessing them from the LP perspective.

Previously, he worked in the Spanish real estate sector. Alejandro holds a BA in Spanish Law from the Universidad Abat Oliba CEU in Barcelona and an MBA from the London Business School, with a concentration in finance. Jennifer is one of the leading commercial advisors in Australian agricultural investment to the world’s largest investors and stakeholders, as the founder and CEO of Aux Venture, a specialist advisory company based in Brisbane, Australia. With over 16 years of experience in agricultural business extension and financial modelling, including seven as ANZ Banking Group’s national authority on livestock, Jennifer has also worked extensively in agricultural credit and corporate finance. Following her career at ANZ, Jennifer launched Aux Venture – a company with a vision for improving the investment and return landscape of Australian agriculture.

To affect sustainable investment opportunities, Jennifer specialises in corporate advisory, due diligence and strategic investment development for large scale agribusiness and global investors including institutional and sovereign funds. Jennifer now advises on agricultural and food based investment to clients across the globe in livestock, broadacre cropping, aquaculture and horticulture. She holds a Bachelor Degree in Rural Science with Honours from the University of New England and is a graduate of the prestigious Australian Rural Leadership Program. Mark White is the Head of Real Assets and senior analyst for illiquid Real Asset strategies at Albourne Partners and is responsible for overseeing the due diligence and portfolio construction for Albourne’s RA clients.

He derives his experience in Real Assets from two distinct career paths, the first in resource management and the second a career in institutional finance. With background in forestry and mining Mark began his career in the private and government sectors. After nearly 14 years in resource management Mark switched paths to institutional pension management in Canada with the NSAHO Pension Plan.

Mark developed and implemented both investment and operational due diligence processes for the pension plan. In late 2008 Mark joined Albourne Partners to assist in developing the Real Asset practice. With a combined 29 years of experience in resource management and finance, Mark is uniquely positioned to assist clients in portfolio development, due diligence, and monitoring of their Real Asset portfolios.

Michael is a Managing Partner with Kincannon & Reed and leads the EMEA regional practice. He joined following an international career spanning more than 25 years in senior executive and Board-level positions in global agribusiness, and the branded food, beverage, household and personal care sectors in the UK, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East. Most recently Michael led agribusiness and food industry engagements for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Prior to this he held a regional European leadership role for Bunge Ltd. And international General Management roles with the branded consumer goods multi-nationals Reckitt Benckiser and Allied Domecq Spirits & Wine. A Scotsman, Michael was born and educated in Edinburgh and served for nine years as an Officer in the British Army where he attained the rank of Captain.

He is a graduate of The Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst and is based near Bath in the south west of England.

The largest Fe isotope fractionations occur during redox changes, as well as differences in bonding, but these are expressed only in natural environments in which significant quantities of Fe may be mobilized and separated. At the circumneutral pH of most low-temperature aqueous systems, Fe 2+ aq is the most common species for mobilizing Fe, and Fe 2+ aq has low 56Fe/ 54Fe ratios relative to Fe 3+-bearing minerals. Of the variety of abiologic and biologic processes that involve redox or bonding changes, microbial Fe 3+ reduction produces the largest quantities of isotopically distinct Fe by several orders of magnitude relative to abiologic processes and hence plays a major role in producing Fe isotope variations on Earth. In modern Earth, the mass of Fe cycled through redox boundaries is small, but in the Archean it was much larger, reflecting juxtaposition of large inventories of Fe 2+ and Fe 3+. Development of photosynthesis produced large quantities of Fe 3+ and organic carbon that fueled a major expansion in microbial Fe 3+ reduction in the late Archean, perhaps starting as early as ∼3 Ga. The Fe isotope fingerprint of microbial Fe 3+ reduction decreases in the sedimentary rock record between ∼2.4 and 2.2 Ga, reflecting increased bacterial sulfate reduction and a concomitant decrease in the availability of reactive iron to support microbial Fe 3+ reduction. The temporal C, S, and Fe isotope record therefore reflects the interplay of changing microbial metabolisms over Earth's history.