Mr. Jianming Hao, Chairman of the Board of Directors
Mr. Hao is the CEO and Chairman. Between December 2001 and May
2004, Mr. Hao served as the Finance Manager of China Merchants Dichain
(Asia) Ltd., a Hong Kong listed company. Between May 2004 and November
2007, Mr. Hao served as a director and Vice President of Shenzhen Litong
Investments Ltd. Since November 2007, he has been a director of Jinzhong
Deyu Agriculture Trading Co. Limited, which is now a subsidiary of Deyu
Agriculture Corp.
Mr. Hao received a Master's degree in Finance from Nankai
University. He is also a certified public accountant in China.
Mr. Hong Wang, Director
Mr. Wang has served as Vice President of Detian Yu Biotechnology
(Beijing) Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of the Company, since October 2009.
Prior to that, Mr. Wang served as General Manager of Shanxi Dongsheng
Guarantee Company Limited from February 2009 through October 2009. Prior
to that, Mr. Wang worked for the Labor Bureau of Jinzhong in Shanxi
Province from July 1996 through January 2009.
Mr. Wang received his bachelor's degree from the Chinese
Agriculture University in 1996.
Both Mr.Jianming Hao and Mr. Hong Wang are from Shanxi province.
Shanxi Province is a beautiful and culturally rich area in China that
has cultivated a farming culture with strong emphasis on tradition. Over
the past six hundred years, the Jin or Shanxi merchants have become
recognized throughout China for their honesty and trustworthiness.
Mr. Greg Chen, Director
Mr. Chen has over 15 years of international business strategy,
development and management experience in the investment, fine arts,
media, technology and manufacturing sectors. Prior to joining the
Company, Mr. Chen has served as Chief Executive Officer of the P-Media
Group, a company providing commercial promotion and marketing strategies
and related services in China, since August 2009. From May 2007 to July
2009, Mr. Chen served as Director of China Operations for Capital Market
Services Inc, a New York based financial firm, to oversee its China
strategy development and operations. Prior to May 2007, Mr. Chen served
as Managing Director of Titian International Inc, an international
business development services firm. Mr. Chen was instrumental in the
first major global Chinese contemporary art exhibition by Sotheby's in
2006, a ground-breaking event in the international contemporary art
landscape.
Educated in US and China, Mr. Chen is fluent in Mandarin, has a
Masters of Science degree in EE/Control-Theory.
Mr. Al Carmona, Independent Director
Mr. Carmona is an independent director of the Company. During the
last 25 years, Mr. Carmona has been with Mars & Co, a high end
international strategy consulting firm, during which he served as
Executive Vice President and Senior Advisor and has coordinated their
Global Business Development Council. With the assistance of Mr. Carmona,
Mars & Co. grew to over 250 professionals worldwide. Mr. Carmona has
deep experience in a wide variety of areas including cost and supply
chain optimization, brand strategy, pricing and demand building
optimization, competitive analysis, portfolio optimization, business
unit turnarounds, as well as acquisition and divestiture analysis.
Mr. Carmona has a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical
Engineering from Princeton University and a MBA degree from the Wharton
Business School, University of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Longjiang Yuan, Independent Director
Mr. Yuan is an independent director of the Company. He is an
acknowledged expert in agricultural technology and has been serving as
the vice director of the Science and Technology Bureau of the Chinese
Academy of Agricultural Sciences, the largest and highest agriculture
institute in China ("CAAS"). Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Yuan
spent 17 years in the Institute of Crop Science of the CAAS, where he
was also the senior director of the R&D team for paddy rice genetic
breeding technologies as well as a scientist in the science commission.
He is the director of the Crop Science Society of China and an expert
for the National Crop Variety Approval Committee. From 2002 to 2004, Mr.
Yuan was an independent director of the board of Shanxi Tunyu Seed
Industry Co., Ltd.
Over the years, Mr. Yuan has participated in and led 13 national
R&D programs and has developed 17 new crop breeds. He has published
more than 20 academic thesis and 5 books on agricultural sciences. Mr.
Yuan was also granted 2 scientific and technological progress awards by
the Ministry of Agriculture of China.
Mr. Longjiangg Yuan holds a master's degree in Plant Genetic
Breeding from the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural
Sciences and a bachelor's degree in Agriculture from Wan Nan Agriculture
University.
Mr. Timothy C. Stevens, Independent Director
Mr. Stevens is an independent director of the Company. Mr. Stevens
has over 30 years of executive leadership, management, and client
service experience with the world's leading law, public accounting, and
management consulting firms. Since January 2011, Mr. Stevens has served
as Chief Operating Officer of an international law firm in Hong Kong.
Prior to that since 2004, Mr. Stevens served as the Executive Director
of Saul Ewing LLP, a Philadelphia law firm where he oversaw all aspects
of its day to day business operations with a focus on improving the
bottom line and supporting the Firm's growth strategy and other key
objectives. From 1999 to 2003, he served as the Chief Operating Officer
and a member of the Management Committee in the Hong Kong and China
offices of the international law firm Baker & McKenzie where he was
responsible for all operations (other than client service) for Baker
& McKenzie's large Hong Kong and China practice. From 1995 to 1998,
Mr. Stevens served in the Chairman's office as the Finance and
Administrative Partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers China, the world's
largest auditing firm, where he supervised the business plans, office
openings and expansions as well as the financial management of the firm.
Mr. Stevens graduated from Clifton College and Bristol University
in the United Kingdom. He received the ACA qualification from the UK
Chartered Accountants' Qualification Program in 1974. Mr. Stevens is a
licensed CPA in Massachusetts as well as being a Hong Kong FCPA.