Susan has worked in the emerging markets on both the sell and buy side for over 20 years. After having been called to the Bar in Canada in 1985, Susan joined JP Morgan in 1986, when she was Head of Emerging Markets Sales, Europe. In 1993, Susan joined Goldman Sachs International as an Executive Director and Head of Sales and Trading responsible for developing its emerging markets debt business in Europe.

In 1997, Susan founded Emergent Asset Management Limited, an award –winning, alternative investment firm based in the UK, where she is a Principal. In addition to its stable of hedge funds, Emergent manages the largest agricultural fund in Africa, where its local office is based in South Africa.

In both 2007 and 2008, Susan was listed by Financial News as one of the Top 100 Women in Finance in Europe. Susan was awarded one of eight Shell UK Women of the Future Awards 2006, in 2008, was appointed a Merrill Lynch/Shell UK Women of Achievement Ambassador.

Susan is on the Board of MyC4, a microfinance business focused on ending poverty in Africa, and is a Patron of the Africa-focused charity Medical Aid Films. She is also Head of the London Chapter of 85 Broads, the largest professional women’s network in the world.

Susan began her schooling in Vancouver, Canada and completed it in Rome, Italy.
She holds three Honours degrees, including two in law from Oxford University and
McGill University, Montreal, respectively. She also studied at St. Andrews
University, Scotland, University of Perugia, Italy and University of Tel Aviv, Israel.

Angus joined Altima from Morgan Stanley Commodities where he was responsible for private equity investments in the agriculture sector. He is a fifth generation farmer from Zimbabwe and has hands-on farming experience from Africa, Ukraine and the UK. He has also had a parallel complementary career in agri and development finance, initially with Deloitte, and subsequently with key development institutions including the World Bank. Angus has a First Class honours degree in Agricultural Business Management and was a Beit Scholar at Oxford where he graduated with a Doctorate in International Development.

Adam Oliver is an Equity Partner with Brown & Co - a leading Agri Business Consulting firm that specializes in providing management consulting and strategic investment advice to large scale agri-business entities and the wider investment community. Brown & Co operate out of the UK, Central and Eastern Europe and South America providing: in depth advice on production economics; extracting economies of scale; land acquisition/ disposal services; land investment strategies; business modelling and restructuring; senior management recruitment; MIS and a full range of due diligence and agricultural land/ business valuation services.

Mr. Oliver has significant depth of experience in investing in and operating large scale ag operations in Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Serbia, Romania and Bulgaria. Having lived in the region for over 10 years Mr. Oliver has a unique detailed understanding of individual country by country land markets, current market drivers and value enhancing strategies. Mr Oliver currently sits on the Board of five companies providing business restructuring/ land investment/ grain handling and storage strategic advice and took part as a senior executive in the largest farming company IPO to date.

Rumen Beremski brings extensive experience in banking and private equity in the real estate sector both in Bulgaria and abroad. He has successfully put together and executed a number of investment projects with international participation.  In 1993, he joined the EBRD in London where he worked for 8 years as a Principal banker in project finance for the South Eastern Europe region. In 2001 Rumen came back to Bulgaria and became Chairman and CEO of Biochim bank, a large state owned bank. Under his management the bank was privatized and acquired by Bank Austria Credit Anstalt, member of the HVB group. Rumen stayed on as Chairman and CEO for two more years. In 2003 Biochim Bank was awarded Bank of the Year 2003 by The FT Banker magazine.

During the last five years Rumen has focused strongly on private equity investment and management in the real estate sector and renewable energy. He helped raise the funding for and  was a member of the Supervisory Board of Bulgaria Property Developments, a  fund raised on AIM and CEO of Landmark Property Investment and Management, a private equity fund  investing in Bulgaria. He has also initiated as a principal investor and promoter the first Golf Resort project on the Black Sea coast designed by Gary Player and WATG. Currently Rumen works on the development of several large renewable energy projects and is seeking funding for the establishment of an agribusiness fund for Bulgaria. Rumen holds an MBA degree from the Harvard Business School.

A New Zealander, Craig has a diverse background in the banking and property investment industries spanning over 15 years. As a Product Accountant specialising in Emerging Markets Fixed Income & Credit Derivatives, Craig worked in senior City roles for both UBS and Deutsche Bank between 1995 and 2004. Leaving the City to join a private overseas property investment company as Acquisitions Director, Craig was responsible for the sourcing, structuring, packaging and placement of more than $500 million of real estate – primarily within the niche, developing markets of Central & Eastern Europe. Having co-founded the First Phase Group in 2008 with two former colleagues, with a strategic focus on Frontier and Premier markets, Craig has since worked on and/or originated and structured projects in excess of $80 million – principally in Europe and Asia.

Together witha well-connected business partner (who is American / Cambodian) in Cambodia,healready owns 10,000 hectares of agricultural land and have an exclusive option on a further 90,000 hectares at prices below current market.
By implementing the correct mechanisation, fertilisation and water management, this block alone has the potential to generate $20m per month in revenue. In anticipation of these yields, Rice Buyers from Kuwait, Ghana, Nigeria and Malaysia have already registered Letters of Interest with us to purchase up to 25,000 MT per month immediately.Craig will be speaking about why investors should seriously consider investing into the lucrative market of Agriculture in Cambodia which is still only a frontier market.

Erik Jantzen is the CEO and owner of Jantzen Development, which he founded in 1997 in Denmark. The company has grown to become one of the largest developer of farmland projects in Slovakia and Romania. Jantzen Development has developed projects with more than EUR 160 million of assets, more than 20.000 hectares has been developed and sold to investors in the Check Republic, Slovakia and Romania. The company manages the major part of the farmland investments on behalf of the investors,

Mr. Jantzen has also established several animal production units across the region of Central and Eastern Europe – a broiler production in the Check Republic, and a pig and dairy production in Slovakia, which today is the biggest and the most profitable agriculture company in Slovakia. Jantzen Development owns 30 percent of the company, and Mr. Jantzen is a member of the senior management.

 In Romania,  Jantzen Development has established a crop production with 6.000 hectares and a new farm build as a Green-field project. The project was sold to 75 private investors. Jantzen Development is managing the project for the investors and owns 12 percent of the company.

Prior to the start of developing projects in Central and Eastern Europe, Mr. Jantzen together with 5 pension funds co-founded and headed an equity fund with special focus on investments in pig production where 12 big pig production units in Denmark were established. Later he served as a CEO for a major European listed company within the European farm industry. For more than 20 years he owned and operated a major pig and crop production in Denmark which he sold in 2006.

Mr. Jantzen holds a degree in Agriculture and finance; he is a widely recognized expert within agricultural investments in Central and Eastern Europe.

Pierre ROLLAND is member of Geosys executive board and focuses on international business development and sales coordination. Starting with Geosys 5 years from now, he has 15 years experience in Agriculture business and sales particularly. Prior joining Geosys, he acted developing sales to the agriculture sector in France, for Eurofins Scientific, international group of laboratories providing ranges of testing and support services to the pharmaceutical, food, environmental and consumer products industries and to governments leader. He started his agriculture experience with Monsanto, developing sales for crop protection and seeds.

Pierre holds a Master’s degree in Agriculture from “Ecole d’Ingénieurs de Purpan” in France and a M.B.A from Paris X University. He is member of the Director board of the “Ecole d’Ingénieurs de Purpan” and of the Intellagri Capital Investment, company of the group “Purpan”.

Lucas Barrowman is the director of CleanFish's upstream efforts. CleanFish is an award-winning U.S. based seafood brokerage and branding firm, bringing the bestartisan, responsibly produced seafood from around the world to North America. Lucas spends his time digging in with producers, suppliers, scientists and NGOs tounderstand what's taking place in the oceans today, what the trade can do to interact more responsibly with our ecosystems, and the opportunities that exist tocatalyze better producers and better business models. Lucas is also the Director of the CleanFish Ecological Advisory, the consultancy within CleanFish that isbringing together teams to provide business strategy, design consulting and investment banking services to leaders within the sustainable seafood space. Prior toCleanFish, Lucas spent his career in corporate strategy, business development and management consulting. He is based in San Francisco.