Board membership

Current Board member of :

- the Navemar/Oceana group since 2002; Navemar is the holding company for the shipping business of the ex-Andre company. They are the biggest Swiss flag ship owner. Suisse-Atlantique (http://www.suisat.com) provides the management of the ocean going vessels.

- Banque Cantonale de Geneve (BCGe) since 2006 (http://www.bcge.ch). BCGe is the local bank in Geneva. Following the serious problems in the late 90-ties, the bank was restructured with fundamental changes in structure and management. In 2006 the Board was reduced from 15 to 11 and 3 new members were elected to bring specific and different knowledge to the Board.

- Kernel Holding in Luxembourg since 2007. This is the Luxembourg holding company for an agri-business in the Ukraine (http://www.kernel.ua/eng/about/about.html). Kernel went through a very successful IPO on the Polish Stock Exchange in November 2006

- Amtrada Holding in Amsterdam since 2010. Continaf (http://www.continaf.com)  active in cocoa, Nedcoffee (http://www.nedcoffee.com) active in coffee and Daarnhouwer (http://www.daarnhouwer.nl) in speciality products are the operating companies of the holding.

Past Board member of :

- Farnair SA in Basel (http://www.farnair.com) Farnair is a leading company in the air cargo business operating in a very specific niche in the air transportation market.

- SJB Suisse SA and SJB Int. Trading SA in Geneva. SJB (http://www.sjb.nl). is a Dutch trading company in petroleum and petroleum products; they are very much a niche player but are in process of expanding their operations in gas and electricity.

- Cefetra BV in Rotterdam (http://www.cefetra.com). Cefetra provides a supply management role for consumers in (mainly) Western Europe in the worldwide market in raw materials for the compound feed industry