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Alan
Guanglin Lai - Chairman
of the Board, Member
of the Corporate
Governance and Nominating
Committee / Co-Chief
Executive Officer
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Mr.
Guanglin Lai has served
as the chairman of the board
of directors since June
2007 and as our co-chief
executive officer since
September 2007. He is also
a director of Brothers Capital
Limited, Agria Corporation＊s
largest shareholder. In
2002, Lai founded Ace Choice
Management Limited, a company
specializing in promoting
business and investment
activities between the PRC
and other countries, and
subsequently founded Aero-Biotech
Group Limited in 2005, where
he currently serves as director
and Co-chief executive officer.
Mr.
Lai is the chairman of the
audit and nomination committees
and a member of the remuneration
committee of KXD Digital
Entertainment Ltd., a Singapore-listed
company that manufactures
and sells audiovisual entertainment
products. He holds a Bachelor＊s
of Business degree in accounting
from Monash University,
Melbourne, Australia and
is a certified pubic accountant
in Australia.
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Zhaohua
Qian 每 Director, Member
of the Compensation Committee |
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Mr.
Zhaohua Qian has served as our
director since June 2007. He also
serves as director and president
of Brothers Capital Limited, and
president of Ace Choice Management
Limited since 2002.
Mr. Qian is a director of the
Husbandry Association of China
and he holds a bachelor＊s degree
in computer science from the University
of Science and Technology of Beijing. |
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Zhixin
Xue 每 Director/ Chief Operating
Officer |
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Mr.
Zhiin Xue has served as chief
operating officer of Agria Corporation
since June 2007 and director since
August of the same year. He is
responsible for overseeing the
operations of the company since
2000.
Zhin
Xue was selected as a ※National
Outstanding Entrepreneur§ and
named an ※Outstanding Entrepreneur
of Shanxi Province§ in 2005, while
awarded the title of one of the
※Outstanding Entrepreneurs of
Taiyuan§ successively from 2002
to 2005 by local governments.
Xue is a member of the Shanxi
Committee of the Chinese People＊s
Political Consultative Conference,
a political advisory body in China
and holds a Bachelor of Science
degree in medicine from Shanxi
Medical College. |
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Dr.
Jiuran Zhao, 每 Independent
Director Member of the Audit,
Compensation, and Corporate
Governance and Nominating
Committee |
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Dr.
Jiuran Zhao is an independent
director of Agria Corporation.
Since 1997, Dr. Zhao has served
as the managing director of the
Maize Center of Beijing Academy
of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences.
From 1986 to 1997, Dr. Zhao worked
at the Crop Center of Beijing
Academy of Agricultural and Forestry
Sciences, where he began as a
researcher, became vice director
and later became the director.
Dr.
Zhao specializes in the genetic
breeding and industrialization
of maize and other varieties of
crops as well as DNA fingerprint
techniques. He is also an agricultural
consultant to the Beijing municipal
government, the director of the
maize expert group of Ministry
of Culture of China, a vice director
of the China Crop Association,
the leader of the National Maize
Cultivation group, a member of
the Examination Committee of the
New Plant Variety of Ministry
of Culture and an expert for The
International Union for the Protection
of New Varieties of Plants. Dr.
Zhao received his Ph.D. degree
in crop geneticic breeding from
China Agricultural University. |
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Dr.
Geoffrey Duyk 每 Director
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Dr.
Geoffrey Duyk has served on Agria
Corporation's board of directors
since August 2007.He is the managing
director of TPG Growth. He served
as president of research &
development of Exelixis Inc. from
1996 to 2003 and was a director
on the board during that time.
From 1993 to 1996 he was a founding
science staff member at Millennium
Pharmaceuticals and prior to that
was an assistant professor at
the Department of Genetics at
Harvard Medical School and assistant
investigator at the Howard Hughes
Medical Institute.
Dr.
Duyk is a council member of the
National Human Genome Research
Institute at the National Institute
of Health. He also serves on the
scientific advisory boards of
the NHGRI DNA Sequencing Advisory
Panel, the KOMP Global Mouse TKO
project (as chair); Expressed
Sequenced consortium; Advisory
panel Cancer Genome Anatomy project
(as co-chair); Program in Genomics
Applications (NHBLI); the Bioethics
Advisory Group at Case Western
Reserve University; the Spinal
Muscular Atrophy Foundation; WIL
Laboratories; VLST; and FoldTx.
Dr.
Duyk holds a bachelor's degree
from Wesleyan University and PH.D.
and M.D. degrees from Case Western
Reserve University. |
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Gary
Kim Ting Yeung 每 Director/
Chief Financial Officer |
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Mr.
Yeung has served as chief financial
officer and director of Agria
Corporation since February 2007
and September 2007 respectively.
Prior to this, he was an audit
senior manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers
where he staye d from 1991 to
January 2007 and gained expert
knowledge in statutory annual
audits, financial due diligence
and preparing PRC companies for
listings on overseas markets.
Mr.
Yeung is a member of the Hong
Kong Institute of Certified Public
Accountants and the Association
of Chartered Certified Accountants
in the UK and holds a bachelor's
degree in accounting from the
University of Ulster in the UK.
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Dr.
Shangzhong Xu,每
Independent Director,
Member of the Audit,
Compensation, and
Corporate Governance
and Nominating Committee
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Dr.
Shangzhong Xu is an independent
director of Agria Corporation.
Dr. Xu is the director of
the Research Institute of
Genetic Breeding and a researcher
at the Beijing Research
Institute of Husbandry Veterinary
Science of the Chinese Agricultural
Scientific Academy.
Dr.
Xu specializes in animal
genetic breeding and its
industrialization, breeding
planning, animal evolution
and marker genes. He established
the open nucleus breeding
scheme to conduct breeding
selection. Dr. Xu is also
the managing director of
the Generic Breeding Branch
and Genetic Marker Branch
of the China Husbandry Veterinary
Science Association. Dr.
Xu received his Ph.D. degree
in animal genetic breeding
from Beijing Agricultural
University and took advanced
courses at Michigan Sate
University. |
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Terry
McCarthy 每 Independent
director, Chairman of
the Audit Committee
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Mr.
Terry McCarthy has served as our
independent director since November
2007. Mr. McCarthy
invests in and provides consultancy
for companies doing business in
China. He is currently the audit
committee chair for Solarfun Power
Holdings, Ltd., a NASDAQ listed
company, as well as board member
of a privately held Chinese company.
From
1985 to 2006, Mr. McCarthy worked
for Deloitte & Touche LLP
in San Jose, California in various
roles as a managing partner, tax
partner-in-charge and client services
partner. From 1993 to 1995, he
managed a national re-engineering
program and software development
project for Deloitte and participated
in the acquisition and development
of Deloitte＊s tax software company.
He began to work extensively with
companies entering the China market
in 1999, and moved on to act as
deputy managing partner of the
Deloitte US Chinese Services Group
from 2003 to 2006.
Mr.
McCarthy co-founded Hayes, Perisho
& McCarthy, Inc. in 1976,
a CPA firm in Silicon Valley in
California. Prior to that, he
held several audit positions at
Hurdman & Cranstoun, CPAs.
Mr.
McCarthy received a bachelor＊s
degree from Pennsylvania State
University, an MBA from the University
of Southern California and a master＊s
degree in Taxation from Golden
Gate University. |
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