Meet the Team
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Martine (1968) is responsible for investment policy, risk management and general operations. From 1990 to 2022 she worked at Rabobank, where she spent her entire career working in risk management and corporate lending. From 2012 to 2016 Martine was seconded to Indonesia and Mozambique where she worked as a (credit) risk management consultant and as a director of lending respectively. The last five years she worked at the internal audit department of Rabobank where she focused on audits of international lending to companies in the Food & Agri sector. Also during this period she was seconded several times to do assignments in lending to the Food & Agri sector in Uganda, Tanzania and Ecuador. In Tanzania, she supported companies in drawing up business plans for making their businesses more climate-proof.
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Wigle (1971) is responsible for selection, implementation and monitoring of the loans in Africa. He was born on a dairy farm in Friesland. An internship in Kenya for his education at the Higher Agricultural School was the beginning of his passion for Africa. From 1997 to 2019, Wigle worked for Rabobank where he focused on financing agricultural businesses, first in the Netherlands and then with a focus on Africa. From 2009 to 2019, Wigle was seconded to Food & Agri banking departments of Rabobank's subsidiaries in Mozambique, Zambia and Kenya. Since his return in the Netherlands In 2019 he has been advising and guiding agri-businesses in Zambia in a personal capacity.
The Fund Managers
The Credit Committee