David Gould says his move from agribusiness to farmland comes at a time when interest rates and stress in other sectors is starting to bring investors’ attention to real assets.
New Forests has appointed Michelle Elliot to the newly-created role, alongside Sanjiv Louis who as joined as director, investments Asia.
The firm has appointed Damien Braud from Proparco while its partner for the NBS strategy, aDryada, has hired CDPQ’s Bertrand Monin.
Former AACo CEO Hugh Killen will lead the firm in Australia as founder Bert Glover shifts internally to oversee growth in the US.
Former Goldcrest and Fall Line Capital executives Tommy Funk and Thiago Lima have been brought in to take the farmland service provider’s suite of offerings into the Southeast and Southern Plains.
Rob Dongoski says he will also look for opportunities to work with private equity firms in ways that were not possible as a member of SEC-regulated EY.
Thomas Nagy joins Astanor Ventures two months after it closed its second found on €360 million.
Gunn Agri Partners’ Wilga Farming platform, backed by CDPQ and the CEFC, has also made its first two investments since launching with a seed asset in June 2023.
Storm van Zyl says she is joining the controlled environment farming system provider at a time when growers and governments in hot climate countries are beginning to recognize the company’s competitive advantages.
Nick Moss previously helped design and implement a forest conservation and sustainable agriculture fund on the part of the AGRI3 collaboration between Rabobank, the UN and others.