Hatim Karimjee?Chairman

Hatim Karimjee's entire business career from 1966 to date has been in the family business. He was Managing Director of a large tea and sisal company, Karimjee Agriculture Limited, until 1996. He has been actively involved in the family's motor business and is currently Chairman of Toyota Tanzania Limited. He is presently Chairman and Managing Director of the family's holding company Karimjee Jivanjee Limited.

Mr Karimjee has been very active in public and private service and his senior appointments have included Chairman f the Tanzania Tea Authority, Tanzania Tourist Board, Muhimbili Orthopaedic Institute, Jane Goodall Institute and Africa Online Tanzania Limited. He has also served as a Trustee of Tanzania National Parks.

Mr Karimjee was educated in England and Switzerland and graduated from IBI Leysin with a MSc in International Business.

Tom Adlam - Managing Director

Tom Adlam is a Chartered Accountant by profession and has lived and worked in East & Southern Africa for the past 5 years. Before taking up his current position of AAC's Managing Director, Tom was the Chief Financial Officer of DC Group plc's African agro-industries investment portfolio, based in Harare, Zimbabwe. He has also held a range f senior financial positions with aid organizations, including Oxfam and the International Red Cross, a senior Consulting role with Pricewaterhousecoopers in Kenya, and two senior corporate development positions with the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.

Tom Adlam is a Fellow of both the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England & Wales and the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants. He holds a MA from Oxford University in Philosophy & Psychology and has recently completed his MBA programme with Manchester Business School.

Ralph Christy - Non-executive Director

Ralph Christy is the J. Thomas Clark Professor of Emerging Markets at Cornell University (Applied Economics and Management Department) in Ithaca, NY , where he teaches advanced/post-graduate courses, conducts research, and organizes executive education programs on the economic performance of markets and distribution systems in low-income communities. Christy is also the Founder and CEO of Market Matters, Inc, an non-profit company with offices in New York and South Africa that works to create educational opportunities for small-to-medium enterprises in emerging markets.

A PhD graduate of Michigan State University, Professor Christy is past-President of the American Agricultural Economics Association, and is currently a Board Member of the Winrock International, the Wintrop Rockefeller Foundation, and the Committee for Economic Development. He has worked as an agricultural economist in Cameroon, Kenya, Zimbabwe, and South Africa.

Laurence Cockcroft - Non-executive Director

Laurence Cockcroft has worked either in Africa or on Africa related issues since 1966. His experience has been particularly focused on agricultural development and on agri-business and he has worked for Governments (Zambia, Tanzania), the corporate sector (Booker Agriculture International), international development organisations (as a consultant to FAO, IFAD,UNCTAD, the World Bank) and private sector Foundations. He has worked closely with the Gatsby Charitable Foundation on its Africa programme since 1985.

Mr Cockcroft holds an economics degree from Cambridge University. In 1989 he published a book on the interface between economic development and political and social issues in Africa in 1989: Africa's Way: A Journey from the Past.

He is a founding Board member of Transparency International and is currently Chairman of its UK chapter.

William Kalema - Non-executive Director

William Kalema is Chairman of the Kilimo Trust, AAC's majority shareholder, and also a Trustee and Chairman of the Board of the Uganda Gatsby Trust. As a leader of private sector development in Uganda, William was appointed to the Commission for Africa. He also serves on the Boards of many respected East African businesses, including among others the Development Finance Company of Uganda, Multichoice Uganda and East African Breweries.

Dr Kalema began his professional career in the Zambian mining industry before taking up a senior position in business development with Du Pont in USA. He returned to Uganda in 1991 where he embarked on a successful business and consultancy career.

He holds Master's and Bachelor's degrees in chemical engineering from Cambridge University and a Ph.D. degree in chemical engineering from the California Institute of Technology.

Joseph Kibe - Non-executive Director

Joseph Kibe pursued a career with the Kenyan Civil Service for 17 years after independence, during which time he rose rapidly to the rank of Permanent Secretary for the Ministries of Commerce & Industry, Economic Planning, Agriculture and Animal Husbandry, Water Development, Lands and Settlement and Tourism and Wildlife.

He was also the Chairman of the Agricultural Finance Corporation in Kenya and of Egerton College (Agriculture). Since his retirement from the Kenyan Civil Service in 1979, Mr Kibe has pursued an independent career in private business, principally in agricultural investments growing French Beans and Runner Beans for export and in property in Nairobi.

Mr Kibe holds a BA from Makerere College (now Makerere University), Uganda.

Simon Rutega - Non-executive Director

Simon Rutega is currently the Chief Executive of the Uganda Stock Exchange. Previously, he worked for the American Express Advisory Service Group as a Business planner/Financial analyst where he was charged with providing comprehensive financial planning for business and individual clients, investment portfolio management, insurance coverage, tax planning and general financial management.

Mr Rutega sits on a number of Boards. He is the current Chairman of the East African Stock Exchange Association, the Vice President of the Institute of Corporate Governance of Uganda, a director on the DFID East African Financial Deepening Board, East African Regional Central Depository Board, African Agricultural Capital Limited, Good African Coffee Limited and also sits on the Uganda Private Sector Foundation Audit committee and SME committee.

Mr Rutega holds a BSc degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in Accounting and an MBA degree in Finance from Brigham Young University in the United States. He also holds various diplomas in capital markets, finance and is a certified corporate governance trainer.

Walter Vandepitte - Non-executive Director

Walter Vandepitte is the former Chairman of the Aveve Group in Belgium, Vice-Chairman of the Boerebond (the Belgian Farmers Union) Chairman of VLAM (the Flanders Agricultural Marketing Board) and Professor at the faculty of Agricultural Science at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. He studied Agricultural Engineering at the University of Leuven and completed his Ph.D at Iowa State University in the United States. He also holds a MBA awarded by the University of Leuven.

His particular field of expertise lies in animal breeding and selection and he has a wealth of advisory experience around the world. After 20 years of service to the Boerenbond in Belgium, he took up an academic career at the University of Leuven, but also took up a range of senior non-executive positions with Belgian agricultural organizations, including Boerenbond and the Aveve Group (a substantial group of agriculture-related businesses).

Professor Vandepitte has published numerous articles on agricultural economics, development and animal production.