Patrick Chatenay has been involved with the sugar industry since 1985 when he joined Saint Louis Sucre, at that time the second-largest sugar and ethanol producer in France, as Director for Economic Analysis. In 1990, he was appointed to Saint Louis’s Executive Board where he was in charge of strategic analysis, data processing and management accounting, and on which he served until he left the company in 2008. As part of his responsibilities for Saint Louis, he acted as Assistant Managing Director of Azucarera Ebro, the largest Spanish sugar producer, and as a board member of IANSA, the Chilean sugar producer and food processor. From 2003 to 2008, Patrick researched investment opportunities in the Brazilian sugar/alcohol industry for the Südzucker Group, following its acquisition of Saint Louis in 2000. In 2008, he founded ProSunergy, which provides strategic advice and implementation services for the world’s sugar, renewable energy and bio-fuel industries. Clients include corporations, industry associations, governments and international multi-lateral institutions. Patrick is an independent non-executive director of MIWA Limited, which produces sugar in Kenya and Tanzania. He holds a Master’s degree in econometrics and a B.A. in English from the University of Paris, a Diploma in Public Administration from the Political Science Institute of Paris and an MBA from Columbia University in New York.