Australia & New Zealand Detlef Schön, Founder, Aquila Capital Group, Germany/ New Zealand

CEO of Aquila Capital Green Assets and KlimaINVEST, responsible for portfolio management. Mr. Schön began his career with Cargill after completing a degree in agronomics. Having held a range of positions at the firm, including at its European headquarters, before long he was made Managing Director of the European Commodities Merchandizing Division. He also ran his own successful business for a time before returning to global agribusiness as Manager of International Grains for NIDERA in Rotterdam. Detlef has held several non-executive positions and supervisory board appointments. Furthermore he has been running his own farm "Hof Peeneland" since 1991.

Prem Maan, Executive Chairman, Southern Pastures Ltd, NZ

Prem has over 28 years of financial markets experience in New Zealand, Australia and Asia and has completed placements in UK and Europe. Prior to setting up the Foundation Group of Companies (that includes Southern Pastures), Prem was the head of structured corporate and investor products group for Australia and New Zealand for Citigroup. His career includes senior positions with Deutsche Bank in New Zealand and with Credit Agricole including Managing Director of Banque Indosuez New Zealand and Regional Manager Asia Pacific for Structured Finance and Syndications. An economist by training Prem has also worked for the Farm Management and Rural Valuation Department of Lincoln University (NZ) and The Rural Banking and Finance Corporation of New Zealand. Prem's advisory clients have included New Zealand Government departments and some of the largest financial institutions operating in Australasia. Prem has had a long involvement with the agricultural sector in New Zealand as an investor and a financier to all aspects of the sector from farmland to processing to exporting and is passionate about New Zealand's ability to compete in delivering premium pasture fed animal protein products to the world. Prem is a member of the Institute of Directors in New Zealand (Inc).

Rodrigo Alexandre Gomes de Oliveira

Rodrigo is a Professor at The Federal University at Tocantins State. He holds a Magister Scientiæ Degree in Agrienergy. His areas of expertise are Agrienergy (biomass fuels), Agribusiness, and Agri Investment projects in Latin America (LATAM). Prof. Rodrigo started his professional career in 1994 as a bank manager at Banco de Crédito Nacional - BCN, being responsible for the development of heavy vehicles leasing operations (airplanes, truck and bus fleets and construction machinery). After this experience in the Brazilian financial market, Rodrigo joined Monsanto's commercial team in Brazil acting as Key Account Manager. In 2002 he accepted the opportunity to become Regional Sales and Marketing Manager for Nortox S/A. First being responsible for managing the operations in the south of the country, than accepting the challenge to run Nortox's operations in the Brazilian new agriculture frontier, best known as MATOPIBA. It gave Rodrigo a full vision of Brazil's agribusiness peculiarities. In 2006 Rodrigo started his own agribusiness consulting office and performed business plans and feasibilities projects for North American and European investment funds as well as projects for European private investors. In 2008 Rodrigo went back to the corporate world and joined AGCO. He was given the chance to work on the commercialization of tractors and combines. The only field of agribusiness he did not had the chance of working until then. In 2010, already holding his Masters degree and starting his Doctoral studies, Rodrigo concentrated full time attention to his academics researches and is now a full time Professor and Researcher at The Federal University at Tocantins State. At this moment Prof. Rodrigo is dedicating himself in an important academic research entitled "Decision making in agricultural derivatives with time series forecast models".

Latin America Olivier Combastet, Founder, Pergam Finance, France / Uruguay

After graduating from Institut d'Etude Politique de Paris in 1983, Olivier Combastet received an MBA from HEC in 1986. As CEO of a frozen food chain in Belgium, he restructured and sold the asset to Covée, in 1988. From 1989 to 1993 he built shopping centers in Belgium and sold most of them to the pension fund of BBL. Subsequently, he began his career in wealth management for families with an emphasis in value investing and hard asset. He Founded Pergam Finance an asset management company in 2001. Pergam, today manages around $1 billion with a strong focus on Private Equity investments: railcars operations, farmland like Campos Orientales a South American farming company that he created in 2005 and who owns more than 100 000 acres in Uruguay and Argentina.

Gonzalo Fernandez Castro

Gonzalo has an extensive career in active investments as a manager and entrepreneur. He is founder and CEO of Lumix Capital Management, a real assets investments specialist, and fund manager of Lumix AgroDirect Fund, specialized in direct investing in ag production in Latin America. Previously he was a Senior Investment Manager at Jacobs Holdings AG in Switzerland helping oversee EUR 3 billion in assets. From that position, he moved on to a portfolio company of the group (Adecco SA, a Global Fortune 500) where he was part of the senior management team led by the German entrepreneur Klaus Jacobs in charge of a global restructuring and turn around. Prior to that, he was a partner at a venture capital company in South America with interests in the agricultural sector, and a consultant at McKinsey & Company. Gonzalo holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and an Industrial Engineering degree from the Buenos Aires Institute of Technology.

Larry Ruud - President and Chief Executive Officer, One Earth Farms GP Corp

Mr. Ruud has been actively involved in farming for over 20 years with positions in the ownership, management and operations of a farm. Mr. Ruud is a current Director of Viterra, which is the largest grain company in Canada, and a member of both the Audit and Compensation Committees. Before joining One Earth Farms, Mr. Ruud was a partner with Meyers Norris Penny where he led their Agriculture Management Consulting Team in Alberta and was also the Director of Practice Development. Mr. Ruud also brings 15 years experience as an active management consultant for farmers in areas such as commodity price risk management, capital investment decisions, growth management, process improvement, management transition, ownership transition and in development of joint farming agreements (mergers, joint ventures and partnerships). He is a regular speaker at industry events on the future of farming and on areas of management improvement as well as a past Director of a regional Credit Union. Mr. Ruud has a M.Sc. in Agriculture Economics from the University of Alberta.

USA & Canada Alberto San Miguel, Partner, Optimum Advisors Fund, USA / Argentina

Mr Alberto San Miguel studied Business Administration at the Universidad Católica Argentina in Buenos Aires. After that, he started working at Agrar Agricola Argentina S.A., a family business that owns and operates 15,000 ha in Buenos Aires province, Argentina since 1990. After that time Alberto moved to United States to expand his family agribusiness. They created a company named Agrar Agriculture USA LLC. and started to buy farmland in USA. By now, their business owns 4,000 Ha in USA. Mr San Miguel has been doing also other Real Estate businesses in United States. During the last 20 years they have walked from Commercial Properties to Residential Real Estate businesses. Geographically they have focused their business on Orlando, Miami and Houston. Some years ago he decided to create Optimum Advisors Fund exploiting his background knowledge in agribusiness. Since then, they have decided to start acquiring farms in United States, mainly in the Delta States Area (Arkansas, Mississippi & Louisiana). The medium term objectives are to keep expanding the business in United States and later on to start buying lands in South America, always pursuing the objective of becoming a global leader in the agricultural business. Contact details: E-mail: alberto@optimumadvisors.net Phone #: +1 305 810 9898

Daniel Hough, Executive Director, Chayton Capital LLP

Daniel advises Chayton on agricultural matters including valuation of potential and current holdings, and provides proprietary analysis of acquisitions and disposals. He joined Chayton from Heron International where he was a Planning and Investment Manager responsible for generating financial analysis and valuations, as well as liaising with agents, contractors and debt providers. Prior to Heron, Daniel held positions in Corporate Finance at BBC Worldwide, Deloitte, and Arthur Andersen; and was an Investor Relations Manager at SABMiller. He has a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Sydney University, a Master's degree in Real Estate Investment from Cass Business School in London, and is a Certified Practising Accountant (Australia). Chayton Capital LLP is an investment advisor established in 2006 with a mission to provide innovative alternative investments to institutional and high net worth investors, focusing on fragmented and difficult-to-access emerging markets. In 2009, Chayton incorporated Chayton Atlas Agricultural Company which seeks to make pioneering investments in African agriculture, agribusiness and related infrastructure and intends to unlock the potential of agricultural land and assets by optimising production and operational efficiency across the agricultural value chain. These investments will be made in conjunction with efforts to improve returns for small farmers. This community-based approach to developing agricultural potential can improve long-term investment prospects by expanding the local market and increasing the community's ability to attract investment. Chayton Capital LLP 6th Floor International House 71 Kingsway London WC2B 6ST United Kingdom + 44 20 7440 7700

Othmane AQALLAL

Born in Casablanca on December 16th 1977, Othmane AQALLAL is the 4th Generation of a Family dedicated and passionate by agriculture, olive growing, and olive oil production. He has graduated from McGill University (Canada) with a Bachelor of Commerce and an MBA from Essec Business School (France). He has been exposed to both European and north American business environment. He also spent a training session at the National University of Singapore in south-east Asia which gave him a good knowledge of the local culture and mentality. He speaks and writes four languages fluently: English, French, Moroccan and Spanish. Othmane's past experiences were in finance (MERRIL LYNCH, ABB) in Canada and Germany as well as in Sales and Business Development (SERITEX) in Morocco. Managing Director of ATLAS OLIVE OILS, he has actively participated and directed the already realized investments in planting olive groves, constructing a cutting edge technology crushing mill and developing export markets, launching of new products, diversifying the current olive oil products' range. Othmane is a true believer that consumers will be more and more sensible to healthy food products. He is convinced that the future development of olive oil differentiation will be linked with their health effect's intensity.

Craig Tashjian

Prior to founding AMERRA Capital, Craig was employed by Societe Generale from 1997-2008 in a number of different capacities, the last of which was as the Head of the Natural Resources business line in the Americas. Upon joining SG in 1997, Craig led the green-field development of Societe Generale's NY-based Commodities & Trade Finance Group, creating one of the leading market players as exemplified by their top league table rankings. The business encompassed a diverse mix of credit and advisory activities in the Energy, Soft, Agri-Business, Bio-fuels, Mining and Metals sectors and in the area of Trade Finance. Craig specializes in executing innovative and comprehensive commodity financing transactions. Prior to joining the Commodities Group at SG, Craig was the Global Head of Commodity Finance at Standard Chartered Bank, managing a global team of commodity professionals. Craig holds an MBA from Rutgers University and a B.S. in Finance and Accounting from Lehigh University, along with Series 7, 24 and 63 securities licenses.

Agriculture Diversified Strategies Nabil Marc Abdul-Massih, Founder, Inoks Capital

Born in Ivory Coast and raised in Switzerland, Nabil started his career trading soft commodities for Namaco which he co-founded in 1996 and which rapidly became one of the biggest independent participants in the West African Coffee and Cocoa origination markets. At Namaco he traded with the world's largest market participants namely Andre Lausanne, Walter Matter, Nestle and Kraft. In 2000 Nabil moved to Lewton Associates where he focused on the brokerage business in soft commodities with a yearly turnover of about US$50m. At Lewton he interacted with other well known participants in the industry including Cargill, ADM and Mitsubishi. In 2003 Nabil moved to Audit Control & Expertise (ACE) in Geneva where he focused in originating and structuring trades as well as advising international banks like Barclays, Standard Chartered and IDB on their risk management processes. At ACE, Nabil was supervising credit facilities for a total of US$800m across 50 credit lines covering 5 geographies and more than 10 commodities. Nabil has spoken at numerous international conferences covering issues on structured trade finance and risk management and chaired workshops focusing on the latest technical developments in the industry. Nabil has a BA in economics and in Business Administration. Since December 2005, Nabil has been in charge of putting together and heading the Advising Team dedicated to Commodities and Activist Funding at INOKS Capital. He is the ancile Fund's Portfolio Manager.

Christoph Avenarius

Christoph Avenarius, Director of Credit Suisse Asset Management, heads the research and manager selection sector for hedge funds focusing on directional strategies. This includes fund selection for liquid trading strategies as well as selected private equity investments in emerging markets. In April 2009 he launched the Credit Suisse Emerging Markets Relationship Investment Fund, seeded by a North American institutional investor, co-investing alongside selected local financial investors into public listed companies pursuing an active engagement with key stakeholders. This investment approach combines attractive features of both public and private equity investments. Prior to joining Credit Suisse in 2003, Christoph was Head of Emerging Markets Trading and Global Credit Markets at ABB Capital, where he co-headed the firm's internal proprietary trading operation. Previously, he was Head of Emerging Market Trading and Development at HVB International Markets Division overseeing EM currency and fixed income trading. He started his professional career at the Financial Services and Treasury divisions of BMW. Christoph holds a B.A. in Economics from University Hagen and an M.Sc. in Physics from Munich University. Supported by the German National Merit Foundation, he became a Visiting Scholar at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore from 1985 to 1986. He earned his Ph.D. in Physics from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar in 1992.

Karim H. Sehnaoui

Mr Karim Sehnaoui joined Abu Dhabi Investment House as Acting Chief Investment Officer and General Manager of the Geneva Office. Prior to his joining ADIH, Karim Sehnaoui was Director, Business Development, in the office of the Chairman and the CEO at Ithmaar Bank, where he helped lead the group's efforts in new sectors such agribusiness, healthcare, renewable energy and infrastructure. Mr. Sehnaoui spent several years with the World Bank Group, including the International Finance Corporation, focusing the MENA region. Mr. Sehnaoui also held the role of Executive Director of the Arab Business Council of the World Economic Forum, managing various multi-stakeholder initiatives in health, education, infrastructure and finance. Mr. Sehnaoui holds a Bachelor and a Masters of Engineering, from McGill University. Mr. Sehnaoui was also a Global Leadership Fellow of the World Economic Forum.