Seed Co has 85 years of experience in the production and supply of certified high-yielding seed varieties bred in Africa for African climatic and geographic conditions.
Our Seed Co maize brands are specially bred for various ecological regions across Africa, assuring farmers of the best in class quality seeds and high yields which result in bumper harvests every season.
Morgan is a Chartered Accountant. He holds a Masters in Business Leadership from the University of South Africa and has also attended the Strategy Master Academy at the University of Cape Town’s business School. He attended the Advanced Management Program 181 at Harvard Business School in Boston. Morgan has been involved in the seed industry since 1998 when he joined Seed Co Limited as Chief Financial Officer.
He has previously held senior positions in diversified regional corporates involved in mining, banking, agriculture, property development, retail, motor vehicle assembly and distribution. He was appointed Group Chief Executive in January 2010 and also sits as an independent non-Executive Director on the boards of TSL Limited, FBC Bank and the Initiative for Global Development.
Chagema Kedera, PhD, is a Kenyan with over two decades of experience in agriculture/trade especially in national and international standards (covering plant protection, food safety, biotechnology, plant variety protection and seed certification).
Dr Kedera currently serves as the SPS Advisor for the USAID – East Africa Trade and Investment Hub and Senior Technical Consultant with the UASID-Kenya Agricultural Value Chain Enterprises on Horticultural Issues. He has served as a Technical Advisor (2014-2016) for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on seed issues and also as a Regional Coordinator (2011-2015) with the EU funded COLEACP-EDES Food Safety Programme. He served as a trainer on food safety governance, financing of food safety, and laboratory business plans in addition to being a facilitator in several technical meetings in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Ghana, Botswana, Mauritius, and Zambia.
Dr Kedera was Deputy Chief of Party (2010-2011) of the USAID-Kenya Horticulture Competitiveness Project in charge of policy, standards, value chain coordination, market linkages and market information systems. He was the founding Managing Director (1997-2010) of the Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service (KEPHIS). He successfully steered KEPHIS to become a public sector agency respected by the public and private sector in all aspects of its work, including conformance with both national and international regulations and standards in plant health, plant variety protection, seed certification and analytical laboratory testing. Dr Kedera chaired the Kenya National Taskforce (2002-2009) on Horticulture, a forum for public and private sector stakeholders in the industry. He spearheaded Kenya’s active participation in the international standards setting bodies including the IPPC, CODEX, OECD seed schemes, OECD fruits and vegetable schemes, ISTA and UPOV (1998-2010). He was elected Chairperson of both the OECD Annual Seed Schemes meetings and the Commission for Phytosanitary Measures (CPM) 2006-2008.
As research plant pathologist (with plant breeding training) at Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (1989-1997), Kedera was involved in plant disease diagnosis, breeding for disease resistance in maize and evaluation of maize varieties in value for cultivation trials.
Kallunde Pilly Sibuga is a Professor in the Department of Crop Science and Horticulture, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania. She began serving in that position in 2004. She holds a PhD in Crop Science (University of Nairobi, Kenya).
She is also the Chairperson of Tanzanian Universities Quality Assurance Forum (TUQAF), appointed in 2015 and National Plant Protection Advisory Committee (NPPAC) by the Minister for Agriculture and Food Security of the united Republic of Tanzania from 2001 to date.
He is a representative (East Africa sub region) to the Council of the Africa Crop Science Society from 2009 to date and a member of the Sugarcane Research Steering Committee under the Sugar Board of Tanzania (1995 – 2017).
Regional Managing Director, East Africa and Great Lakes Region & MD Tanzania
Appointed Managing Director for Seed Co Tanzania in 2015 and has been instrumental in fortfying business growth. Following the consolidation of Seed Co’s Strategic Business Units for coordination purspose, Clive was appointed Regional Managing Director for Seed Co East Africa. His career spans across the FMCGs, Automobile and Agricultural sector. He serves on the African Seed Traders Association ( AFSTA) board . Clive holds a Bachelor of Honours degree in Management and completed the Senior Executive Leadership Programme at Harvard Business School.
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