Mary-Ann Parr is a chartered accountant with a unique mix of both corporate and entrepreneurial experience in both transaction initiation and operational management. Ms Parr has 23 years of business experience ranging from managing the finance team for a R300 billion (+US$20B) employee benefits business, project managing the finance and risk restructuring of said business, planning and implementation of HR remuneration strategies for asset management businesses including private equity and hedge funds and co-managed the establishment of a multi-million Rand food security program: FoodBank South Africa. Ms Parr was the youngest executive in Old Mutual Asset Management, where she held a position for 5 years. More recently, she has spent six years involved in agriculture and agro-processing growing programs that started as consulting for mining houses with agricultural land holdings and has migrated to contract farming. This experience has resulted in an extensive network of funders, processing partners and growing programs each looking for a party to facilitate building and optimising the bridge between investors and agricultural deal flow.