Bunge Limited announced that its Board of Directors has appointed the following three new board members: Paul J. Fribourg, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Continental Grain Company; Gregory Heckman, founding partner of Flatwater Partners; and Henry W. Winship, President of Pacific Point Capital, LLC. The appointments are effective from October 31, 2018. With the addition of the three new directors, the Board has expanded to 14 directors. Bunge, the D. E. Shaw group and Continental Grain reached an agreement to appoint the three directors as well as a fourth, mutually agreeable independent director to be appointed by year end. Greg Heckman will join the Corporate Governance and Nominations Committee, Paul Fribourg will join the Finance and Risk Policy Committee and Jay Winship will join the Compensation Committee. The Board has determined that Mr. Heckman and Mr. Winship are independent directors for purposes of the NYSE corporate governance listing rules, as well as Bunge's standards of director independence. In addition to these new appointments, the company added Mark Zenuk and Vinita Bali to the board over the past ten months. Mr. Zenuk has served as Managing Partner of Tillridge Global Agribusiness Partners, an agribusiness private equity firm, since 2016. Ms. Bali brings extensive global food industry experience, having served as Chief Executive Officer of Britannia Industries, a publicly listed food company in India. Paul Fribourg has served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Continental Grain Company since 1997 and is a member of its Management Committee. Paul has over 40 years of experience owning and operating businesses in the food, agribusiness, and commodities industries. Greg Heckman is Founding Partner of Flatwater Partners and has over 30 years of experience in the agriculture, energy and food processing industries. Jay Winship is currently President of Pacific Point Capital. Prior to Pacific Point Capital, Jay was a Principal, Senior Managing Director, and Member of the Investment Committee at Relational Investors. He has over 20 years of experience as an institutional investor helping to unlock substantial value at a wide range of public companies.
Bunge Global SA is a global agribusiness and food company. The Company conducts its operations via four segments: Agribusiness, Refined and Specialty Oils, Milling, and Sugar and Bioenergy. Its Agribusiness segment is an integrated, global business principally involved in the purchase, storage, transportation, processing and sale of agricultural commodities and commodity products. Its Agribusiness operations and assets are located in North and South America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. The Refined and Specialty Oils segment includes businesses that sell vegetable oils and fats, including cooking oils, shortenings, specialty ingredients, and renewable diesel feedstocks. The Milling segment includes businesses that sell wheat flours, bakery mixes, and corn-based products. The Company also produces sugar and ethanol in Brazil through its 50% interest in BP Bunge Bioenergia, a joint venture with BP p.l.c (BP).
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