Advisory Board

Dr. Thomas Kirchberg is a member of the Management Board of Südzucker AG Mannheim/Ochsenfurt, the market leader in the European sugar industry, as well as Co-chairman of the “Agriculture” working group on the German Committee on Eastern European Economic Relations. He studied agriculture at Göttingen University and has been active in the European agricultural sector for over 20 years.

Wilhelm Rupp has been a member of the Management Board of the Volksbank Kraichgau Wiesloch-Sinsheim eG since April 1998 and has supported Walldorf-based Ekosem-Agrar GmbH from the very beginning. Total assets of EUR 2.85 billion (FY 2011) make the bank one of Germany’s top 15 “Volks- und Raiffeisenbanken”.

Thomas Stürtz has been a member of the Management Board of Nordmilch eG since January 2007. Since the 2011 merger with Humana Milch, Nordmilch has been part of Germany’s largest dairy company, DMK Deutsche Milchkontor GmbH. Thomas Stürtz has studied agriculture and operates his own dairy cow farm in Dorum near Cuxhaven.

Dr. Franz Georg von Busse has been Managing Director of LEMKEN GmbH & Co. KG in Alpen/Niederrhein since 1991. He holds a PhD in law and sits on several industry bodies, e.g. as Chairman of the Board of the German Export Association for Food and Agri Products (GEFA) as well as Board member and spokesperson of the German “Agriculture” working group on the German Committee on Eastern European Economic Relations.