Andrew Guthrie

Non-Executive Director

(B. AgSci (Hons), GAICD)

Andrew has dedicated his career to agriculture and worked for 32 years with one of the world’s leading agriculture companies, Syngenta, and predecessor companies around the world. After building his early career in sales, marketing and supply chain roles in Australian agriculture, Andrew spent 20 years working internationally with assignments in the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, Japan and China. He gained significant experience in diverse cultural environments that require broad leadership skills. Andrew 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 multi-billion dollar business in Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

During his career, Andrew led business growth in developed and emerging markets by creating country operating businesses with the right culture, capability, people and business strategies to access attractive market segments that constituted tens of millions of grower customers in some countries. Andrew has a strong understanding of corporate governance and the risk management required to successfully grow business in emerging markets.

Andrew was part of Syngenta’s Global Crop Protection Leadership team that was responsible for business strategy that leveraged Syngenta’s extensive research and development capability to invent, gain regulatory approval and launch new products, including insecticides, to agricultural markets globally.

In 2019 he retired from executive management roles and now acts as a company director and mentor.