R. STEVEN DYER

EXECUTIVE ADVISOR AGRICULTURE

Mr. Steven Dyer has over 25 years of experience in the agricultural commodities sector. Mr. Dyer has been mostly involved in the physical trading of most ag commodities. He has an extensive background in risk management and trading commodity markets and currencies. Steve has also set up and managed several ag commodity trading companies with a successful track record. He has operational as well as management experience in the sector as well.

Steve launched a small cotton trading company in the late ’90s which eventually was acquired by Macquarie Bank, which was the launching pad for Macquarie’s physical agricultural commodity space. Steve is the current Global Head of Marketing for Louis Dreyfus’ cotton division which is the largest physical cotton trading company globally. Dyer is an honors academic graduate of The Citadel.