Pierre Lavaud, Founding Partner and CEO of JetFin.

Mr. Lavaud is currently CEO of JetFin, responsible for the strategy and the development of the company. From 1999 to 2002, Mr. Lavaud was head of sales and marketing for Capital Fund Management (CFM) a fund manager with close to $4 Billion under management in Long/Short arbitrage, CTA and volatility arbitrage funds. From 1996 to 1999, Mr. Lavaud worked as European Sales Manager for UBITRADE. A leader in derivative capital markets (futures and options), UBITRADE provides cutting-edge software for the capital market industry. From 1992 to 1996, he worked as Sales Engineer in the Industrial Automation department of BOSCH, one of the 10 largest German industrial conglomerates, in Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom. Mr. Lavaud is fluent in French, English, Italian and German. He graduated from Grenoble Ecole de Management.

Sustainability in Agriculture Geoff Burke, Partner, Agro-Ecological Investment Management, UK

Geoff Burke was brought up on a sheep and beef farm in New Zealand, in a family that was involved with agricultural investment from 'paddock to plate'. He made his first investment in the agriculture sector at the age of 10. He graduated from Massey University in 1988 with a Bachelor of Business Studies (Agricultural Business) and from Lincoln University in 1997 with a Post Graduate Diploma in Applied Science (Biological Husbandry). He has several years experience in SRI (Sustainable and Responsible Investment) and eight years in investment banking/asset management including JP Morgan, Lehman Brothers and Credit Suisse Asset Management in London. Geoff has actively been involved in the organic management sector for 14 years in both the UK and New Zealand as Organic Farm Adviser, Business Development Manager, Managing Director of the Organic Arable Marketing Group and the Organic Seed Producers Company and as a member of the certification committee for an organic certifier. In that time he has been involved with a wide range of farmland investment management and advisory work, organic research, and nearly 200 organic farmland conversion projects.

Sustainability in Agriculture Bernd Schanzenbaecher, Managing Partner, EBG Capital AG, CH

Bernd Schanzenbaecher is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of EBG Capital, a Zurich based asset management boutique focussed on management and advisory of private equity investments in the environmental space (timberland, farmland, cleantech). He is an acknowledged leader in Sustainability with over 20 years of experience promoting sustainability in business practices, financial markets and international public policy. Prior to EBG Capital, Bernd was Global Co-Head of Credit Suisse's Environmental Business Group (EBG) were he led the implementation of the EBG strategy in clean tech and natural resources. Until 2007, Bernd was Global Head of Sustainability Affairs at Credit Suisse. He played a critical role designing and launching the groundbreaking responsAbility Microfinance Mutual Fund in 2002. As a Lead Author he contributed to the Chapter on "Impacts of Climate Change on Financial Services" of the IPCC Third Assessment Report. IPCC won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. Prior to joining Credit Suisse Group in 1998, Bernd was the Economic Affairs Officer with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in Geneva, Switzerland and in Nairobi, Kenya. He holds a Master in Agronomy and a PhD in Agricultural and Ressource Economics from University of Hohenheim (Germany). Bernd is a member of the Advisory Board of Ariya Capital, a company focused on private equity investments in the cleantech space in Africa. He is a member of the BoD and investment committee of the Sustainable Earth Forestry Fund.

Sustainability in Agriculture Catherine Henry, Product Specialist, SAM Sustainable Asset Mgmt, CH

After receiving her MA in International Economics at of the Johns Hopkins SAIS - School of Advanced International Studies and an MBA at SDA Bocconi, Ms. Henry joined the World Bank/IFC group as an analyst on a ground-breaking water resource management project in the MENA division. She later worked in London with private equity group, 3i, and joined Man Investments based in Switzerland where she headed a global sales unit in 2005. Ms. Henry joined SAM as a Senior Product Specialist in 2010 where she covers the full range of sustainable high-growth equity and private equity offerings to Institutions and family offices for Europe and Asia. Ms. Henry is based in Zurich.

Agro Equity Strategies John Coast Sullenger, MD & Portfolio Manager, GAIA Capital, CH

Mr. Sullenger is a managing director of GAIA Capital Advisors SA and the portfolio manager of the GAIA Resources Fund and the GAIA World Agri Fund. Over the years Mr. Sullenger has been a frequent commentator on the natural resources and agriculture space in such media as CNBC, Bloomberg TV and industry conferences, as well as the author of numerous articles on these subjects. Prior to establishing GAIA Capital Advisors SA, from 1999 to 2006, he was the fund manager responsible for Eastern European resources & energy portfolios at Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch in Geneva and was directly responsible for assets under management exceeding USD 500 million. His strong results and ability to preserve capital in weak markets were widely recognized. Pre-Switzerland, Mr. Sullenger spent several years in Moscow heading up sales and trading for Pioneer Securities, which he co-founded in 1996. He is fluent in English, French, and most importantly Russian, where his experience and crucial contacts within Russia and the CIS countries brings unique deal flow. He graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in Economics and Foreign Affairs.

Agro Equity Strategies James Govan, co-Manager, Baring Asset Management, UK

Investment Experience: 9 Years James joined Baring Asset Management as an investment analyst on the Global Resources Fund in 2008 and was promoted to Investment Manager in 2010. Prior to Baring Asset Management, James worked as an Assistant Fund Manager on a UK equity long/short hedge fund at BC Asset Management between June 2002 and January 2008. James holds a BSc in Banking and International Finance from Cass Business School, City University, London. He was awarded the Investment Management Certificate in 2002 and the CFA designation in 2006.

Hedging Strategies Bernard Belk, Director Global Agro Corporate Business, SwissRe, CH

Bernard Belk heads the Agricultural Corporate Business of Swiss Re Corporate Solutions. Based in Zurich, he oversees a team of experts focused on providing innovative crop-shortfall insurance, weather-based index covers and structured price hedges solutions across the entire agricultural supply chain -- from input suppliers to commodity processors. Mr. Belk joined Swiss Re Corporate Solutions in 2008 with more than 20 years of solid experience in the agricultural sector. He started as farmer growing cereals, sugar beet and potatoes in Europe, as well as breeding sheep in New Zealand. He served the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Africa where he managed the development programme in Cape Verde before joining a family-owned business trading/conditioning coffee and dried fruits company. Prior to joining Swiss Re Corporate Solutions, Mr. Belk worked for 12 year at SGS, a leading agricultural supply chain service provider. At SGS, he held several positions, including Global Grain Manager and Global Strategic and M&A Manager in Geneva and Sao Paulo. Mr. Belk holds a Master Degree in Agriculture Sciences from the Swiss Institute of Technology in Zurich and a MBA from the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne, both in Switzerland.

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.

Agriculture Diversified Strategies Mark N. Zenuk, Managing Director

Mr. Zenuk joined NGP in 2010 and serves as a Managing Director of the NGP funds. He leads the firm's efforts in the agribusiness sector, leveraging his global reputation and 20 year industry expertise in acquiring and operating large scale assets in the storage, processing, transportation and merchandising of agricultural commodities. Prior to joining NGP in 2010, he served in many roles with Archer Daniels Midland Company (NYSE: ADM), most recently serving as President of Global Oilseeds, the largest Global Business Unit at ADM, comprising over $24 billion in sales and operating profit of $1.3 billion. These divisions employed 8,600 people, had 116 inland terminals, and 112 oilseed, crushing, refining and industrial facilities. From 2005 to 2007, Mr. Zenuk was Managing Director for Europe and Asia. In 2005, he was elected as a Corporate Vice President of ADM. From 2003 to 2005, Mr. Zenuk served as Senior VP for ADM's North American & European Oils & Fats division. Prior to joining ADM, he served as General Manager (Commodity Marketing Group) for the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool and Marketing Manager for the Canadian Wheat Board. Mr. Zenuk received a B.S. in Agricultural Economics in 1990 from the University of Saskatchewan.

Agriculture Diversified Strategies: Moderator Myret Zaki, Vice-Editor in Chief, Bilan, CH

Myret Zaki, 37, was born in Egypt and grew up in Geneva. She majored in Political Science at the American University in Cairo, and obtained an MBA at the Business School of Lausanne in 1998. She worked 4 years at the private bank Lombard Odier, where she trained as junior equity analyst. In 2001, she joined the newspaper Le Temps, where she headed for 9 years the Finance pages. In January 2010, she joined Bilan (economic magazine) as deputy editor in chief. In 2008, she wrote an investigative book, « Inside the UBS scandal », and in 2009, she published a second book, « Banking secrecy is dead, long live tax evasion ».

Soft Commodities Itay Simkin, CEO, Krom River, CH

Itay Simkin is the CEO and partner of Krom River. Itay has 25 years experience in commodity markets. For ten years prior to 1997, Itay was at Man Group where he became a partner. In his last position, he was chief coffee trader in the softs markets in London and New York. Itay has been an advisor to Elite Foods Ltd for commodity purchasing and risk management. Prior to joining Krom River, Itay was a founder and the Managing Director of Matrix Capital Markets Ltd., a proprietary trading company with over 100 traders, specializing in trading commodity and fixed income derivatives in European and US markets. Itay was a director of the Krom River Commodity Fund from inception and in 2009 stood down to join the Krom River team full time as CEO. Krom River Trading AG Neuhofstrasse 3d CH-6340 Baar Switzerland +41 41 544 55 00

Soft Commodities André de Gaspar, Director, LCI Suisse SA, Switzerland

12 year track record of profitable activities in the alternative investment industry and another 15 years of successful commodity trading and business management. 2004 He is a founding partner of A2CT2 Ltd., a systematic trading manager specialized in short term commodity trading. Since the fund's inception in September 2005 to date he is a Director of the Commodity Absolute Return Fund (CARF), SPC registered in Cayman Island. 2003 He co-founded AIS (Suisse) SA which is regulated by FINMA as a Swiss registered fund advisor serving as platform used by AIS Ltd, A2CT2 Ltd. and LCI (Luxembourg) SA for research. Assets of up to $500 million at a peak in 2006 were managed in various FoF products including a pension fund managed account and 3 commodity mandates by A2Ct2 Ltd. In 2002 André co-founded Alternative Investments Services (AIS) Ltd. as its CIO and MD, to provide specialized research & advisory services in alternative investment strategies and portfolios management. April 1999 He became a partner and CIO of Agora Capital Management Ltd., a Bermuda based alternative investment asset management firm. Sept 1997 He worked at Banque Syz & Co. where he became Head of the bank's FoF business. 1996 André decided to take a sabbatical period to pursue personal interests during 1996 & 1997. Nov 1984 He started his career with Cargill Group (Tradax SA) in Geneva as a vegetable oil Merchant Trainee. In 1986 he joined Cargill SACI Argentina as Vegetable Oil Trader. At this occasion he worked with Alejandro Eito. In 1987 André moved back to Cargill International Geneva's Headquarters as Vegetable Oils Merchant overseeing Latin America origination and distribution in the Mediterranean Countries. He became Head Trader of the International Vegetable Oil Trading business in 1988. From 1990 to 1993 he run as Managing Director the Commodity Trading Division for Cargill Spain. He run the Company's physical trading activities in grains (Barley, Corn, Wheat), Oilseeds (Sunflower seed), Fertilizers imports & distribution (Phosphates and Nitrogen), and Non-Grain-Feed-Ingredients (NGFI) imports & distribution. He concluded his career with Cargill in 1996 having been for three years Head of Worldwide Refined Sugar Trading. He is a Brazilian and Swiss Citizen, graduated in 1984 with a MSc. in Economics from HEC Lausanne in Switzerland. Born in Sao Paolo in 1962, he lives in Geneva, married with one child. He speaks fluent French, English, Portuguese, Italian, Spanish and understands German.

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.

India Rajesh Srivastava, Chairman & MD, Rabo Equity Advisors, India

He is credited with conceptualizing and setting up the first dedicated to food and agribusiness PE fund in Asia. Rajesh has over 30 years experience in corporate/merchant/investment banking with over 6 years in direct private equity and 9 years in food and agribusiness, including 5 years as Regional Manager, Asia, Rabobank International. Known for his knowledge, drive and passion, he has set the fund on a steady street with 7 investments already committed and 2 exits underway. Immediately before Rabo Equity, Rajesh was Managing Director, Corporate & Commercial Banking for 3 years in Rabobank India. During his stints in Rabobank, he has set 3 new products, namely, food and agri strategic advisory, renewable energy and carbon credits and micro finance lending. Besides, he was associated with several high profile M&A transactions, especially of the Tata group, as the deal manager. Prior to Rabobank, he set up and managed the then largest and most unique venture capital fund for Lazard India. Earlier on, he worked for one of the largest Indian Banks across corporate/commercial/merchant banking for 12 years. Presently, he sits on the Advisory Board of The Energy Resources Institute (TERI) and on the Project Approval Board of the National Skills Development Corporation, besides various national committees on food processing and agriculture. Rajesh is a graduate in Economics and Laws and a post graduate in Western History. He has been intensively trained in internal and external colleges, including in international relationship management.

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.

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

Europe Prof Joost M.E. Pennings, Chairman, FS-Innovators B.V., Netherlands

is the AST professor in Theory and Practice of Commodity Markets of Wageningen University (NL) a Research Fellow in the Office for Futures & Options Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (U.S.A), professor in behavioral finance at Maastricht University (NL) and professor of Marketing at Maastricht University (NL). Professor Pennings is an authority on commodity risk management and commodity markets. Professor Pennings is an expert in financial product development (developing new derivatives and initiating new futures and option exchanges) and commodity (agricultural) investment strategies and has a broad network in the commodity-agricultural and financial services industry. Professor Pennings has written more than 80 articles in international refereed scientific journals and has held more than 90 presentations at academic conferences. Professor Pennings consults for international operating companies and governments on risk management, product development and investment strategies. Languages: Dutch, English, German.

Timber Magnus Weikert, Director, The International Woodland Company A/S, Denmark

Mr. Magnus Weikert joined IWC in 2009 as Business Development Manager. Prior to joining IWC, he worked at Aberdeen Asset Management's property division as Head of Fund raising on behalf of its Eastern European private real estate platform. He holds a MSc in Business and Economics from the School of Economics and Management at Lund University, Sweden, and a MA in Corporate Strategy and Governance from the University of Nottingham Business School in the UK.

Water Judson Hill, Managing Director, NGP Global Adaptation Partners, USA

Mr. Hill joined NGP in 2010 and serves as a Managing Director of the NGP funds. He is an industry leader in the water and environmental services sector. He has over 30 years of experience in both water and environmental service company operations as well as over a decade of private equity experience in the water industry. He leads NGP's efforts in sourcing, execution and monitoring of opportunities in the water and environmental services sectors. Prior to joining NGP, Mr. Hill was a Managing Partner with Summit Global Management, Inc. where he was responsible for all private equity investments in the water sector. From 1999 to 2008, he served as a Managing Director of Aqua International Partners and then The Halifax Group, both affiliates of the Texas Pacific Group. Mr. Hill's early career was with Atlantic Richfield and Westinghouse Electric Corporation where he held operating and executive roles in the environmental and water sectors. Mr. Hill received a Bachelor of Science in Biology / Chemistry in 1977 from Edinboro State University and a Bachelor and Masters of Science in Environmental Engineering in 1979 from the University of Pittsburgh. He serves as a Trustee of the Water Keeper Alliance.

Investors & Allocators Philippe Szokolóczy-Syllaba, Founder, My Global Advisor, CH

Philippe Szokolóczy-Syllaba is a Swiss national who started his career as a lawyer in Geneva in 1987. After spending some time with a Washington D.C. law firm, he joined Freshfields in Paris where he was also admitted to the bar. In 1995 he moved into finance, as co-head of the International Tax and Estate Planning Departement for Paribas Europe. He then joined in 1999 Heritage Bank in Geneva as member of the management, in charge of their Paris and Milan office among other responsabilities. In 2005 he launched My Global Advisor, a Geneva based multi family office, offering bespoke wealth management and tax and estate planning services. Philippe holds a BS in Business Administration from Presbyterian College, S.C., USA, a J.D. from the University of Geneva and a European Certified Financial Analyst Diploma. He is a regular speaker at conferences and contributor to magazines on tax and finance topics.

Investors & Allocators Martin Bürki, Partner, MartInvestments, Switzerland

Martin has over 15 years of experience in the financial industry. He is one of the veterans of the open fund architecture concept in Switzerland. Over a period of ten years, he structured the worldwide mutual funds research department for UBS AG. Upon leaving UBS, his team numbered 15 analysts, who advised clients managing CHF 40 billion. In 2008, he started his own company, offering fund research services to institutional clients and independent asset management advice to wealthy clients. During his career he conducted up to 1000 fund manager interviews and knows all major players in the industry. Martin holds a Master's degree in Business Administration and Economics (lic. rer. pol.) from the University of Bern (CH).

Pension Funds Nicolas Compard, Portfolio Manager Real Assets, CERN Pension Fund, CH

Nicolas has been working at CERN Pension Fund for the last 5 years. He started in 2006 as a portfolio analyst, in charge asset allocation, manager selection and monitoring, and reporting to the Investment Committee. In 2009 he took risk management responsibilities that he handed over in 2010 when he became Portfolio Manager for Real Estate, Private Equity and Commodities, three portfolios that together represent AUM of more than 700 MCHF or 18% of the CERN Pension Fund's assets. Nicolas holds a MSc in Finance from EDHEC Business School.

Pierre Lavaud, Founding Partner and CEO of JetFin.

Mr. Lavaud is currently CEO of JetFin, responsible for the strategy and the development of the company. From 1999 to 2002, Mr. Lavaud was head of sales and marketing for Capital Fund Management (CFM) a fund manager with close to $4 Billion under management in Long/Short arbitrage, CTA and volatility arbitrage funds. From 1996 to 1999, Mr. Lavaud worked as European Sales Manager for UBITRADE. A leader in derivative capital markets (futures and options), UBITRADE provides cutting-edge software for the capital market industry. From 1992 to 1996, he worked as Sales Engineer in the Industrial Automation department of BOSCH, one of the 10 largest German industrial conglomerates, in Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom. Mr. Lavaud is fluent in French, English, Italian and German. He graduated from Grenoble Ecole de Management.