Andy Watt

Andy Watt is the Managing Director of QualiBasic Seed Company Ltd. (QBS). An agriculturalist with over 37 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. He was the managing director of Syngenta East and Southern Africa and Head of Large Scale farming for Syngenta in Africa. He had recently spent time in the world of Private Equity as CEO of the African Agricultural Fund’s (AAF) Inputs platform and in October last year, set-up Kibeni Agriculture Ltd., an Agribusiness consultancy specialising in strategy and business development, due diligence for investment as well as organisational development.

Andy has his own farm, producing vegetables for the Kenyan market and is expanding into fruit production, he sits on the board of Karen Country Club as Director of Golf and is a Non-Executive Director on the board of Coopers Kenya Ltd.

Married to a Kenyan, he has three children, two living and working in the UK and one embarking on her A levels at Brookhouse school, Nairobi.