Constantine Gonticas
Non-Executive Chairman
Mr. Gonticas has been a Senior Advisor to the Blackstone Group since 2012. He is also an active investor through Green Square Capital Limited, his personal investment vehicle. Previously, from 2004 to 2011, Mr. Gonticas was the Managing Partner of Novator LLP, an investment company specializing in Central & Eastern Europe. Whilst at Novator, Mr. Gonticas sourced a number of investments, including PLAY (a Polish mobile telephony company which is one of the largest ever start-ups in the region), Netia (Polish fixed line telephony) and Forthnet (fixed line telephony in Greece). He has served as Vice Chairman of the Supervisory Board of PLAY and was also Vice Chairman of the Boards of Netia and Forthnet. Before Novator, Mr. Gonticas was Head of Investment Banking for Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa for Merrill Lynch and prior to that spent 12 years at Credit Suisse First Boston. Mr Gonticas has a law degree from Oxford University. He is a UK citizen and resident in London.
Nicolas Van Broekhoven
Non-Executive Director
Nicolas Van Broekhoven is a Managing Director of Value Square Singapore. Value Square is a global asset manager with offices in Belgium and Singapore and assets under management of approximately US$455 million. Nicolas joined the company in 2008. Prior to Value Square, Nicolas worked for Petercam W&P; (Belgium) and I-Methods/Foyer Patrimonium (Luxembourg), having been professionally engaged as an analyst and fund manager since 2003. Nicolas has appeared regularly in financial media publications such as De Tijd, De Standaard, The Wall Street Transcript, Edge Singapore and writes a bi-monthly column for the US magazine Better Investing. Nicolas holds a BSc in Finance from Bentley University (Boston, USA).
Tim O’Neill
Non-Executive Director
Mr. O'Neill has extensive experience across the financial services and agricultural industries including roles at SPP Hambro & Company, Prudential Securities Incorporated, and AgriNexus Capital LLC, as well as significant experience in the Peruvian market through his role at Austral Group SAA.
Jason Lee
Financial Controller
Mr. Lee was previously with Asian Plantations Limited in corporate development; he has, since 2010 developed detailed budgeting and forecasting plantation models. He started his career in investment banking with Deutsche Bank in New York and Merrill Lynch in Singapore where he performed M&A, capital raising and financial advisory work. He is a US citizen and graduated with honours from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He resides in Lima, Peru.