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Andy Watt

Managing Director, QBS

Andy Watt is an agriculturalist with over 43 years of commercial experience in sales, marketing, business management, strategy development and implementation, corporate governance, driving change, and business restructuring and development. He has deep knowledge of both large-scale commercial and small-scale farming across Africa, with specialist knowledge of both crop protection and seeds. He was the Managing Director of Syngenta East and Southern Africa and Head of Large Scale Farming for Syngenta in Africa. Andy sits on the boards of CKL Africa, and Lachlan Kenya as a Non-Executive Director, is Chair of the Board of Riding for the Disabled Kenya, and Vice-Chair of the Board of STAK (the Seed Trade Association of Kenya). Andy is a British Citizen and permanent resident in Kenya, married to a Kenyan and has three children and three grandchildren.