Michael is a Finance Manager at Stafford Capital Partners and is involved in business support, accounting and administration. He graduated from the University of Sheffield with a Bachelor’s degree in history and has financial experience in the oil and gas sector. Michael is a Chartered Accountant.
Read MoreJazz is Stafford’s Tax Manager, involved with tax due diligence and planning, compliance, reporting and support of investor tax affairs. Prior to joining Stafford, Jazz worked as a US Business Tax advisor with Deloitte in London. She is qualified as a Certified Public Accountant and holds a Bachelors of Science in Accounting from Wright State University in Ohio, USA.
Read MoreMarianne is a professional seafood investor, board member and lawyer with 20 years of international executive experience across the industrial and seafood sectors. Marianne is currently the Chair of the Board of the Norwegian Seafood Council, whilst also sitting on the board of Elkem ASA and Norway Royal Salmon. In addition, Marianne is a member of the Advisory Network to the High Level Panel for A Sustainable Ocean Economy. Previously Marianne has been a Board Member of Morpol, Copeinca, Codfarmers, Pharmaq and was the Chair of the Nom. Comm. of Grieg Seafood. Marianne received her Cand. Jur Diploma from the University of Oslo and MBA from Solvay Business School Brussels (Honors).
Read MoreEinar spent more than 30 years as a senior executive in the global fish feed industry, initially as CEO of EWOS and later as President of Cargill Aqua Nutrition. Einar currently works as an investor and holds the position as Chairman of the Board in NCE Seafood Innovation Cluster and a Board Member of Bakkafrost. Einar received his masters and PhD (aquaculture) diploma from Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB) and MBA from BI Norwegian Business School.
Read MoreAchim has over 30 years of experience in Fast Moving Consumer Goods and Seafood businesses, with more than 15 years spent in senior management positions. Achim spent 20 years with Reckitt Benckiser, where his last position was SVP Asia and 7 years with Nomad Foods Group, the biggest frozen food company in Europe, as Managing Director. Most recently, Achim was the CEO of Regal Springs Group, the world’s largest Tilapia business. Achim received his diploma from Berufsakademie Mannheim, Germany.
Read MoreIngar worked for 20 years at DnB, the world’s largest seafood bank, as a senior seafood banker where he worked closely with several of the largest seafood companies in the world and on the financing of several private equity investments. When Ingar decided to leave banking, he was a Senior Vice President and head of the Bergen seafood team (the largest seafood team within DnB). Ingar currently holds several board positions within the seafood industry.
Read MoreTerje has more than 20 years’ experience investing in public and private companies with exceptional returns as a Portfolio Manager, Head of Analysis and Equity Strategist. Terje has led successful investments in the private seafood companies Arnarlax, Stingray and FSV Group. Terje received his diploma from the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH).
Read MoreTill has 19 years’ experience in the financial industry. 14 of these years were with Goldman Sachs International, where he was a Managing Director in the Private Equity business and, amongst other roles, in charge of the agriculture sector globally. Mr Hufnagel received his diploma from EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht and is a CFA Charterholder.
Read MoreAlex has been active in the investment sector internationally for more than 30 years, during which time he has acted as a principal investor, manager and sponsor of private equity and venture capital management teams. Alex was previously the Chairman of the Board of Benchmark Holding and is currently a principal at Welbeck Capital Partners. He received his diploma from Cambridge University.
Read MoreNeptune NRCP LLC was founded in 2019 by Thor Talseth.
As a former senior executive of public and private aquaculture and agriculture businesses, Thor brings a hands-on approach to investing in and adding value to portfolio companies.
Thor was previously the Head of Private Equity at AMERRA Capital Management and a voting member of its investment committee. Prior to joining AMERRA in 2015, Thor was founding partner of an investment management and advisory company focused on the international seafood and aquaculture industry.
Thor has more than 20 years’ experience in the international seafood and aquaculture industry as an investor, senior executive and as a sector- focused banker. He was previously Head of Seafood (Corporate Finance) at Arctic Securities, Executive Chairman of a public marine biotech company, Managing Director & Country Manager of Landsbanki Norway and CEO of OTC-listed international aquaculture company.
Thor has also been a speaker and organizer of industry-focused investor conferences in New York, Chicago, London, Oslo, Hong Kong and Singapore.
Read MoreJos is head of Stafford’s Agriculture & Food investments where he is responsible for all investment management activities in this sector. In this capacity, he is also a board member of Neptune NRCP LLC.
Prior to joining Stafford he was Global Lead Capital at agri-food executive search firm Kincannon & Reed, servicing a variety of investors, investment managers, portfolio companies and agribusinesses. He also served as head of Agriculture & Food at the advisory firm, Sherpa Millbank. Before this, he was Head of Agri Corporate Finance at Société Générale and worked in strategic planning at publicly-traded agribusiness company, Bunge. Jos has deep industry insights across the entire agri-food value chain and holds longstanding relationships with a wide array of industry operators and stakeholders across the world. He started his career working in Corporate Strategy & Development roles at AirFrance-KLM and JTI.
Jos studied Economics at the University of Amsterdam.
Read MoreJames is an Investment Manager in the Stafford Ag & Food division, responsible for portfolio management, origination, due diligence and investor reporting. Prior to Stafford, James was a Senior Analyst at EBG Capital, an agricultural investment advisory firm, where he completed mandates for various Family Offices, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization and the German International Development Agency. Before this, James was an Investment Manager at EnerCap Capital Partners in Prague, focusing on wind farm project finance and M&A in central and eastern Europe. He also has experience in carbon finance (with Climate Change Capital) and public market transactions. James holds an MSc in Environmental Technology from Imperial College London and a BA (Hons) in Natural Sciences from Clare College, Cambridge University.
Read MoreBill is responsible for investment appraisal, financial modelling, due diligence, negotiation and investor reporting for the Stafford Ag & Food division. Prior to Stafford, Bill spent more than 4 years as an Analyst for the Macquarie Pastoral Fund, Paraway Pastoral Company, located in Australia involved on both the asset management and financial and business reporting functions. He has also worked with Hassad Australia and Consolidated Pastoral Company. Bill holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Sydney with majors in Finance and Marketing.
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