First Guardian Agriculture (FG Agri) announces the appointment of Country President, China
Announcement posted by David Twine FAICD 29 Oct 2014
MELBOURNE, 29 October 2014 - FG Agri, an Australian diversified agricultural investment management, trading and export facilitation firm,announced today the appointment of Ms. Fu Ning as its China President.
First Guardian Group Chairman, David Twine said, “This appointment builds upon First Guardian’s recent opening of a new Beijing office (*) designed to deepen the firm’s engagement and service to clients and customers across China.”
“One of the central pillars of our group’s China business is the agriculture and food sector. The appointment of Ms Fu is a crucial step in consolidating our growth footing and operational delivery of integrated end-to-end solutions for investors that cover production, processing, export facilitation, trade, market-entry and distribution”, said Mr. Twine.
FG Agri China President reports directly to FG Agri CEO, Mr David Anderson.
David Anderson said “We are impressed with Ms. Fu’s leadership abilities and confident she will help facilitate the delivery of premium value to our clients and customers as well as strong growth across all elements of our food and agri interests.”
“With educational qualifications and professional experience in China and the United States, Ms. Fu brings substantial business experience from highly commercial environments in the private sector and professional membership organisations. Throughout her career Ms. Fu has honed her skills in external affairs, government relations, stakeholder management and project management principally in trade and investment in the real estate, property development and agriculture sectors”, said Mr Anderson.
Ms. Fu joins FG Agri from the Beijing head-quartered conglomerate Yi Cheng International Investment Group where she held the portfolio of President International Investment for Overseas Operations, and the Overseas Investments Properties Association where she held the office of Executive Member of Council.
Ms. Fu assumes this position with immediate effect.
About the First Guardian Group
The First Guardian Group is a diversified investment management, trading and export facilitation firm, managing assets, funds and a network of agricultural and food trading linkages between Australia, New Zealand and the markets of Asia and the Middle East. Divisions of the First Guardian Group operate across agriculture and food assets, property and tourism developments, life sciences and research, minerals and energy, managing assets in ethical investments, superannuation, and private equity. Our core investment team has over 130 years’ investment management experience investing in Asian, American and Australian markets.
About FG Agri
First Guardian Agriculture (FG Agri) is a specialist manager of agricultural assets, with expertise in advising and assisting investors unlock the resources and value of Australia’s agricultural sector. FG Agri is responsible for selecting, purchasing and operating agricultural assets on behalf of investors, extending to export facilitation, market entry and international trade. Commercial transactions our team members have participated in, including acquisitions and exports, exceed $70 billion in value. Drawing on the combined resources of our specialist agricultural advisory team, our experience spans the full breadth of the Australia and New Zealand agricultural industry.
(*) First Guardian Group Media Release, 15 October 2014, Beijing.