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Board
Jonathan Johnson-Watts, Non-Executive Chairman
Mr. Johnson-Watts is an experienced executive with a proven track record of improving businesses and returning shareholder value. He excels at partnering with leadership teams to improve operational efficiency and drive sustainable growth through strategic and structured approaches.Jonathan has significant experience in the agri-industrial sector particularly with Volta Red UK Limited, a West Africa-focus palm oil operator. In addition he brings with him over a decade of senior leadership experience across various international agribusiness and infrastructure platforms, including extensive experience in West Africa, specifically the Ivory Coast.

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 8 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 Biopalm Ltd) 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 Biopalm Ltd 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.

Aristide (“Aris”) C. Achy Brou, Non-Executive Director
Over the last 20 years Aristide has held senior positions in the commodity and derivative trading divisions at Citadel, British Petroleum, JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs. A native of Côte d’Ivoire, Aristide and his family have been involved in rubber plantations and processing operations in the country for over 40 years. Aristide grew up in both France and Côte d’Ivoire and after graduating from the leading aerospace engineering school in France, he moved to the US where he obtained a Master of Science at MIT and received a PhD in Applied Statistics from Johns Hopkins University. Additionally, he holds an MBA from the Wharton Business School, with a focus on Finance and Operational Management of Corporations.

Operational Management
Dr. Benjamin Adon, Agricultural Director
Dr Adon is a palm oil genetic expert with 15 year’s experience in R&D on palm oil seeds and the development of palm oil estates in Côte d’Ivoire. Prior to joining the company, Dr Adon held a senior position at the Centre National de Recherche Agronomique (“CNRA”), the Côte d’Ivoire authority for oil palm seed development where the latest cycle of seeds are generating yields well in excess of 20 tonnes of FFB. Dr Adon oversees all aspects of the Company’s agricultural activities including the Nursery, the planting programme, estate maintenance and relations with the small holders.

Alon Levy, General Manager in Country
Alon has over 20 years experiencing working in senior financial roles including with STI International, an infrastructure group based in Gabon and Ghana. Prior to becoming General Manager of Dekel’s In Country Operations, Alon held the position of CFO of Dekel CI and was responsible for overseeing the palm oil financial and accounting function. Alon is a qualified chartered accountant and has a degree in Business Management from the University of Tel Aviv.

Moshe Yetiv, Estate Manager
Mr Yetiv is an experienced agronomist with more than 25 years experience in the management of large scale agricultural and oil palm projects, including 10 years in West Africa. Mr. Yetiv is responsible for managing all nursery operations. He was also responsible for implementing the current Nursery in Ayenouan including the computerised drip irrigation system and the use of cocoa fibre substrate system both of which have been highly praised by the reporting Agronomist. 

DekelOil currently has an additional 300 additional operational and administrative employees. All members of the operational management team are based full-time in the Ivory Coast.