AGT Foods - Management And Board

Management and Board

Murad Al-Katib

Director, President and Chief Executive Officer - AGT Food and Ingredients Inc.

Murad Al-Katib is President, CEO and Board member of AGT Food and Ingredients Inc. An international agri-food, strategic business and financial thinker and a passionate advocate of global agriculture and the opportunities and challenges facing the sector, Murad co-founded AGT Foods in 2001, building a Canadian start-up into a global billion-dollar plant-based protein company, supplying value-added pulses, staple foods and ingredients to customers around the globe.

Murad has a wealth of experience in board roles, including appointments to the Industry Strategy Council of the Government of Canada in 2020; Chair of the Government of Canada National Agri-Food Strategy Roundtable; Chair of the Canadian Pulse and Special Crops Trade Association and the Independent Director of the First Mills, a listed company on the Riyadh Kingdom of Saudi Arabia stock exchange. Murad is also a graduate of the Rottman Institute of Corporate Directors course.

Murad’s awards include the 2021 ABEX “Business Leader of the Year”, 2020 Globe and Mail “Innovator CEO of the Year”, the 2021 Canadian Western Agribition “CWA Top 50 in Canadian Agriculture”, the 2017 EY “World Entrepreneur of the Year”, PROFITGuide Magazine’s “30 Most Fabulous Entrepreneurs of the Past 30 Years” list, and the Western Producer “44 Innovators Who Shaped Prairie Agriculture”.

Hüseyin Arslan

Director, Executive Vice Chairman - AGT Food and Ingredients Inc.

President, The Arbel Group

Past-President, Global Pulse Confederation

Huseyin Arslan has spent his career as a driver and innovator in the global pulses and staple foods business, with over four decades of experience in the trading of agricultural and food products globally. Mr. Arslan cofounded AGT Foods in 2001, growing the venture from a single lentil-splitting plant into a worldwide leader in plant-based proteins, supplying value-added pulses, staple foods and ingredients to the global marketplace. Mr. Arslan has acted in multiple leadership roles within AGT and its global subsidiaries, including Executive Chairman, Managing Director and Global President and Lead of Emerging Markets. Mr. Arslan holds a Bachelor of Science in Electronics Engineering from Middle East Technical University in Türkiye.

In 2024, Mr. Arslan was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Global Pulse Confederation (GPC), the global pulse industry association, recognizing his lifetime service to the pulse sector. After serving as GPC’s Executive Vice-President, Mr. Arslan became President of GPC in 2015, during which time he successfully initiated the recognition of World Pulse Day by the United Nations. Mr. Arslan received the Saskatchewan Distinguished Service Award in 2018, one of Saskatchewan's highest honours recognizing non-residents of the province who have made outstanding contributions to Saskatchewan and the development of the province’s economy, culture and society. Mr. Arslan served for many years as the President of the Mersin Trade Commodity Exchange Council and is the Past President of the Union of Mediterranean Pulse, Grain and Oilseed Exporters, and has served terms as President and Executive Vice-President of the International Pulse Processors and Exporters Federation.

Lori Ireland, CMA

Chief Financial Officer - AGT Food and Ingredients Inc.

Ms. Ireland is a Certified Management Accountant with over 15 years’ experience in Agricultural Accounting. Lori worked as an Accountant for Heartland Livestock for 3 years managing the implementation and related staff training of the livestock Feeder Finance program through Farm Credit Canada. Ms. Ireland spent the next several years in Special Crops Accounting at the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool (Viterra), with duties including all aspects of grain accounting as well as being appointed Project Manager for the implementation of a new Grain Accounting Reporting Package that was designed for the Grain Accounting and Marketing areas of the company. In 2002, Ms. Ireland joined Saskcan Pulse Trading as CFO and was named CFO of AGT in 2007, serving in this role to the present.

Kenton Rein

Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary - AGT Food and Ingredients Inc.

Mr. Rein is the Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary at AGT Food and Ingredients Inc. and is responsible for AGT’s legal matters throughout the world, including AGT’s corporate and commercial legal and compliance matters.

Prior to joining AGT, Mr. Rein was a partner at a leading national law firms in Toronto and Calgary where he practiced corporate and commercial law. Mr. Rein holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the State University of New York and a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Calgary.

Harley Ulmer

Global Corporate Treasurer – AGT Food and Ingredients Inc.

Mr. Ulmer is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) and has an MBA from the University of Regina. Mr. Ulmer has over 25 years of leadership experience across the agriculture and energy sectors. Since joining AGT in 2011, Mr. Ulmer has played a pivotal role in driving the IFRS Accounting Standards accounting transition and spearheading global finance and risk management strategies for the entire group. Mr. Ulmer continues to play an integral role in the design and management of AGT’s global accounting systems, including emerging market operations with multiple foreign currencies.

Board Of Directors

Robert W. McFarland

Chairman of the Board and Director

Mr. McFarland is Chairman of the Board of AGT, a director of Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited, serving as the Lead Director and the Chair of the Audit Committee, a director of Dexterra Group Inc., serving as Chairman of the Board and a member of the Corporate Governance and Compensation Committee as well as the Audit Committee, a director and Chair of the Audit Committee of Fairfax India Holdings Corporation. With over four decades of experience, Mr. McFarland previously served as Chairman of the Board of The Conference Board of Canada. Mr. McFarland was the Chief Executive Officer and Senior Partner of PwC Canada from 2011 to 2018. Prior to that, Mr. McFarland was a member of the executive team at PwC from 2005 to 2011, having been admitted to the partnership in 1992 and led the Greater Toronto Area audit practice from 2002 to 2005. Mr. McFarland is a Chartered Professional Accountant and a fellow of the Chartered Professional Accountants of Ontario.

Mary Garden

Director

Ms. Garden has been a director of Dexterra since May 2016 and has over 30 years of executive leadership experience in business, including commercial real estate, multi-family residential real estate, seniors housing, institutional investment, and hospitality.

Ms. Garden is the principal at Mary Garden & Associates, an advisory firm working with select global clients, government and C-Suite leaders in strategic consulting, executive coaching, mentoring and workplace wellbeing. Over the course of her career, Ms. Garden has worked in executive-level positions with the British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI), PwC, Delta Hotels, PKF, Holiday Inn, Radisson Hotels, Pan Capital and Keg Restaurants. From 2008 to 2015, Ms. Garden led investment teams at the BCI, managing Canadian and international multi-billion-dollar, private equity real estate portfolios for institutional pension plan clients. Ms. Garden has served on the boards of Bentall Kennedy, Parkbridge Lifestyle Communities, Delta Hotels, SilverBirch Hotels & Resorts, Habitat for Humanity Canada, and was the former Chair of the University of Victoria Foundation board ($500M AUM). She is also actively engaged with numerous non-profit organizations in her community.

Ms. Garden has a BA and MBA from the University of British Columbia and holds the ICD.D, GCB.D and CCB.D designations.

Christos Gazeas

Director

Mr. Gazeas serves as Executive Vice President, Legal and General Counsel, managing the legal affairs of Dexterra Group and plays an integral role in supporting their business strategy and operational needs. Mr. Gazeas brings with him significant experience in M&A, securities, corporate finance, governance best practices and general corporate law, and previously worked for Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited as Senior Legal Counsel, leading M&A negotiations around the globe, including the going private transaction of AGT that was concluded in 2019. Mr. Gazeas also serves on the Board of Managers of Davos Brands Holdings LLC, and helped guide it with the sale of its brands, including American Aviation Gin, to Diageo PLC in 2020 for up to US$610 million with potential earn-outs. In addition, Mr. Gazeas serves as an officer and/or director of many of Dexterra Group’s subsidiary entities. Mr. Gazeas was previously in private practice at the law firms Stikeman Elliott LLP and Lang Michener LLP in Toronto. Mr. Gazeas was called to the Bar of the Law Society of Ontario and holds a Bachelor of Social Science, Master of Criminology and Bachelor of Laws from the University of Ottawa.

Bradley P. Martin

Director

Mr. Martin served as an officer of Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited from 1998 to his retirement in 2024. He served most recently as Vice President, Strategic Investments of Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited and prior to that, Chief Operating Officer from 2006 to 2012. Before joining Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited in 1998, he was a partner with Torys LLP, a leading Canadian business law firm. Mr. Martin currently serves as Chairman and as a member of the Human Resources and Corporate Governance Committee of Blue Ant Media Corporation (TSX) and is a director of Eurobank S.A. (Athens Stock Exchange), having served previously as a member of the Remuneration Committee. He has served in the last five years on the board of Resolute Forest Products Inc. (New York Stock Exchange, TSX). Mr. Martin, a lawyer, is a graduate of University of Toronto Law School and has an undergraduate degree in economics from Harvard University.

Jawaid Mirza

Director

Mr. Mirza is a seasoned banker and strong proponent and practitioner of international corporate governance, bringing with him over 35 years of diversified experience and a solid track record in all facets of financial and risk management, technology, M&A, business turnarounds and operations management.

Over the years, Mr. Mirza has worked with global institutions like Citibank and ABN AMRO Bank Ltd where he held several senior positions as Chief Financial Officer European Region, Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer for Global Private Banking, Asset Management and New Growth Markets, Chief Financial Officer for Asian region including Australia/New Zealand, Subcontinent and Middle East. Mr. Mirza led several due diligences for acquiring banks in Hungary, Taiwan, Thailand, Germany, Brazil, France and Pakistan. Mr. Mirza was also a member of the Top Executive Group of ABN AMRO Bank as well as member of the Group Finance and Group COO Board of ABN AMRO Bank. Mr. Mirza currently is also a Non-Executive Director with Commercial International Bank-Egypt (CIB) S.A.E where he chairs the Board Operations & Technology Committee.

Previously Mr. Mirza has served as Independent Non-Executive Director with Eurobank Ergasias Services and Holdings S.A. in Greece where he chaired the Board Audit Committee, served as the Vice Chair of the Board Renumeration Committee and also as a member of the Board Nomination & Governance and Board Digital Transformation committees.ss

Mr. Mirza also served in the Board of Atlas Mara (sub- Saharan African financial services group listed on the London Stock exchange) where he chaired the Board Audit & Risk committee and was also a NED with South Africa bank of Athens rebranded to Grobank in South Africa. Mr. Mirza holds various business management courses from reputable institutions like the Smith School of Business at Queen’s University, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Stanford Graduate School of Business and is also a member of the Institute of Corporate Directors, Canada.

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