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New Operating Director at Paine Schwartz

Paine Schwartz Partners has hired agribusiness executive Rick Greubel as an Operating Director.

“We have known Rick for many years and are excited to welcome him to the Paine Schwartz team,” said Kevin Schwartz, Chief Executive Officer and a Founding Partner of Paine Schwartz. “Rick brings more than 30 years of experience across the food value chain in both multinational and start-up environments. With the addition of Rick, we are bolstering our strong and deep bench of operating professionals, and we look forward to benefitting from his international expertise and leadership experience.”

Mr. Greubel began his career at Monsanto in 1995 and spent 22 years there in positions of increasing responsibility. From 2001 to 2006 he was the President and Managing Director – Brazil for Monsanto. In 2006, he joined Tyson Foods as Group Vice President & International President which included responsibility for Tyson’s Cobb-Vantress poultry business which is active in the development, production, and sale of broiler breeding stock. In 2010 he became President, Human Nutrition & Health at Royal DSM (a Swiss company that is active in health, nutrition and materials) and was based in Basel, Switzerland. In 2015 he joined Kaiima, an Israeli seed, genomics and breeding technology start-up as CEO, from which he retired in January 2018. Mr. Greubel holds a bachelor’s degree in Microbiology from the University of Missouri and is a graduate of the Wharton School Advanced Management Program.

“I’m looking forward to working closely with Paine Schwartz’s team of executives and investment professionals to identify new investment opportunities and to drive growth at existing portfolio companies,” said Mr. Greubel.

Paine Schwartz Partners (previously Paine & Partners) provides equity for management buyouts, going private transactions, and company expansion and growth programs. Sectors of interest include the food and agribusiness industries.  The firm is currently investing through its $893 million Paine Schwartz Food Chain Fund IV. Paine Schwartz Partners was founded in 2006 by Dexter Paine and Kevin Schwartz and has offices in New York and San Mateo, CA (www.paineschwartz.com).

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