Dekel Agri-Vision plc
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Dekel Agri-Vision PLC is an agriculture processing, logistics and farming operation located in Côte d'Ivoire.
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Andrew James Tillery
Non-Executive Chairman
Mr Tillery is an experienced project manager and investment analysis with over 20 years operational management and private equity experience in Africa and other emerging markets. This includes seven years (1996-2003) as a CEO in Côte d\'Ivoire, West Africa where he had responsibility for managing a group of oil palm operations and also founding a natural rubber business. Mr Tillery has an MA and MSc from Oxford University, an MBA from the University of Chicago and worked with CDC Group Plc (the UK Government development finance institution) from 1989 until 2004. Following this he spent several years in emerging markets investment management, including four years as a Senior Investment Manager with Norfund, the Norwegian Investment Fund for Developing Countries, based in Oslo after a secondment period to venture capital fund managers Fanisi Capital Ltd in Nairobi. Mr Tillery also briefly returned to CDC Group (now renamed ACTIS Capital LLP) as an Investment Director from 2006-2008. He is currently on the board of three African agribusiness and adviser to several agribusiness investment funds in sub-Saharan Africa. He also recently joined Collabrium Capital, a London based investment bank, as a partner responsible for the management of several emerging market funds.
Youval Rasin
Chief Executive Officer
Mr Rasin is the co-founder of DekelOil and has held senior management positions in various companies within the Rina Group, a family holding company with diverse interests including agriculture, mining and hotels in Africa and Europe. Mr. Rasin is interested in StarEnergy SA which has undertaken construction of a 381MW gas turbine. Furthermore, Mr. Rasin has interests in Marine Carrier SA, Starten Limited, StarTen CI SA and Egoz Limited. He is also interested in StarAgro SA which is involved in the production of rubber and cacao plants. By profession, Mr Rasin is a qualified lawyer and has been active in Côte d’Ivoire since 2002, with 7 years experience in agro-industrial projects including 5 years in the palm oil industry with DekelOil.
Yehoshua Shai Kol
Chief Financial Officer
Mr Kol is the co-founder of DekelOil. By profession, Mr Kol is a Chartered Accountant, and has an MBA from Tel Aviv University. Mr Kol worked for 13 years in finance, with significant business & international exposure. Mr Kol is a former employee of KPMG Corporate Finance and Professional Practice. He was also the Financial Director for Europe, Middle East and Africa for an international software company, Director of Finance and Business Development for Yellow Pages Ltd in Israel, during which time he lead fund raising and Mergers & Acquisitions activities.
Lincoln John Moore
Executive Director
For the past 5 years Mr. Moore has been actively involved in establishing and raising finance for oil palm projects in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Côte d’Ivoire. Mr Moore was the former Chief Financial Officer of Sierra Leone Agriculture Ltd (now owned and operated by the Siva Group) until September 2011 and a co-founder and former director of Ragnar Capital Ltd, where he played a key role in raising over $US50m for oil palm projects in West Africa. This included the Siva Investment into DekelOil of €8.3 million. Mr Moore is a Chartered Accountant and former senior manager in the restructuring division of Deloitte and Touche.
Orli Arav
Non-Executive Director
Orli has an in-depth market and industry knowledge of Emerging Markets and since 2005 has worked in Africa through her position as Head of the Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund (EAIF) at Frontier Markets Fund Managers. EAIF is an open end debt fund for sub-Saharan Africa based in London, that was set up by international development ministries of the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. During this time she successfully structured and closed a number of transactions providing capital to infrastructure projects. Orli has also held roles in the project finance divisions of global accountancy firms PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Ernst & Young. Orli is currently a director of Tel Aviv University Trust UK and Global Sustainable AgroForestry Fund (member of the advisory board).