Post by Detlef Schoen

NewAg Partners has moved to Switzerland and attracted a new Partner. We are pleased to announce that NewAg Partners AG has been incorporated in Switzerland as the platform housing both our own activities and institutional investments into the Natural Capital opportunities we are developing and managing, beginning with the large-scale "New Cerrado" cocoa production and nature restoration project that we have been working on in Brazil during the last two years and which will be investment-ready shortly. It is with great pleasure that we also take this opportunity to announce that Dr. Christoph Schumacher has joined NewAg as a shareholder and executive vice chairman of the board (Verwaltungsrat). Until mid-2024, he was the Global Head of Real Assets, Private Markets, and President & CEO of Manulife Investment Management Timberland & Agriculture Inc. in Boston/Zurich. Prior to joining Manulife Investment Management, Dr. Schumacher was Global Head Real Estate at Crédit Suisse Asset Management. From March 2011 until May 2017, he served as the CEO of Union Investment Institutional Property GmbH, Germany, where he was in charge of the institutional business and a member of Union Investment’s investment committee. Prior to this, Dr. Schumacher worked for Generali Real Estate in Cologne, Luxembourg, and Paris and as a lawyer at Linklaters in Berlin and London. Dr. Schumacher studied at the universities of Freiburg, Geneva, and Bonn and holds a PhD from the University of Münster’s Institute of International Business Law. Stay tuned for further announcements.