Andrew Guthrie has a 32-year career in the agriculture sector. He has an understanding of corporate governance and the risk management required to grow business in emerging markets.
After building his early career in sales, marketing and supply chain roles in Australian agriculture, Mr Guthrie spent 20 years working internationally with assignments in the UK, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, Japan and China.
He spent most of his senior leadership years with Syngenta in Asia, as regional director for Asia Pacific, before he was promoted to lead Syngenta's business in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. He was part of its global crop protection leadership team responsible for business strategy that leveraged Syngenta's research and development capability to invent, gain regulatory approval and launch new products, including insecticides, to agricultural markets globally. After 18 years with the company, Mr Guthrie retired from executive management roles in March 2019.
Since then, he has been a company director and mentor.
