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Murad Al-Katib
President and Chief Executive Officer - AGT Food and Ingredients Inc.
Murad Al-Katib is President, CEO and Board member of AGT Food and Ingredients Inc. An international agri-food, strategic business and financial thinker and a passionate advocate of global agriculture and the opportunities and challenges facing the sector, Murad co-founded AGT Foods in 2001, building a Canadian start-up into a global billion-dollar plant-based protein company, supplying value-added pulses, staple foods and ingredients to customers around the globe.
Murad has a wealth of experience in board roles, including appointments to the Industry Strategy Council of the Government of Canada in 2020; Chair of the Government of Canada National Agri-Food Strategy Roundtable; Chair of the Canadian Pulse and Special Crops Trade Association and the Independent Director of the First Mills, a listed company on the Riyadh Kingdom of Saudi Arabia stock exchange. Murad is also a graduate of the Rottman Institute of Corporate Directors course.
Murad’s awards include the 2021 ABEX “Business Leader of the Year”, 2020 Globe and Mail “Innovator CEO of the Year”, the 2021 Canadian Western Agribition “CWA Top 50 in Canadian Agriculture”, the 2017 EY “World Entrepreneur of the Year”, PROFITGuide Magazine’s “30 Most Fabulous Entrepreneurs of the Past 30 Years” list, and the Western Producer “44 Innovators Who Shaped Prairie Agriculture”.
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Hüseyin Arslan
AGT Food and Ingredients Inc., Executive Chairman
President, The Arbel Group
Past-President, Global Pulse Confederation
Huseyin Arslan has spent his career as a driver and innovator in the global pulses and staple foods business, with over four decades of experience in the trading of agricultural and food products globally. Mr. Arslan cofounded AGT Foods in 2001, growing the venture from a single lentil-splitting plant into a worldwide leader in plant-based proteins, supplying value-added pulses, staple foods and ingredients to the global marketplace. Mr. Arslan has acted in multiple leadership roles within AGT and its global subsidiaries, including Executive Chairman, Managing Director and Global President and Lead of Emerging Markets. Mr. Arslan holds a Bachelor of Science in Electronics Engineering from Middle East Technical University in Türkiye.
In 2024, Mr. Arslan was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Global Pulse Confederation (GPC), the global pulse industry association, recognizing his lifetime service to the pulse sector. After serving as GPC’s Executive Vice-President, Mr. Arslan became President of GPC in 2015, during which time he successfully initiated the recognition of World Pulse Day by the United Nations. Mr. Arslan received the Saskatchewan Distinguished Service Award in 2018, one of Saskatchewan's highest honours recognizing non-residents of the province who have made outstanding contributions to Saskatchewan and the development of the province’s economy, culture and society. Mr. Arslan served for many years as the President of the Mersin Trade Commodity Exchange Council and is the Past President of the Union of Mediterranean Pulse, Grain and Oilseed Exporters, and has served terms as President and Executive Vice-President of the International Pulse Processors and Exporters Federation.
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Lori Ireland, CMA
Chief Financial Officer - AGT Food and Ingredients Inc.
Ms. Ireland is a Certified Management Accountant with over 15 years’ experience in Agricultural Accounting. Lori worked as an Accountant for Heartland Livestock for 3 years managing the implementation and related staff training of the livestock Feeder Finance program through Farm Credit Canada. Ms. Ireland spent the next several years in Special Crops Accounting at the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool (Viterra), with duties including all aspects of grain accounting as well as being appointed Project Manager for the implementation of a new Grain Accounting Reporting Package that was designed for the Grain Accounting and Marketing areas of the company. In 2002, Ms. Ireland joined Saskcan Pulse Trading as CFO and was named CFO of AGT in 2007, serving in this role to the present.
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Gaetan Bourassa
Chief Operating Officer - AGT Food and Ingredients Inc.
Mr. Bourassa is responsible for all merchandising, plant operations and marketing programs for AGT and its subsidiaries globally. Gaetan brings over 30 years of experience in facility management, plant operations and merchandising activities in the global pulse industry. After completing his business studies in 1992, Gaetan spent the next decade managing some of the first pulse-splitting facilities in Western Canada, focused on origination, processing and value-added splitting and marketing of peas. In 2005, Gaetan joined AGT, assuming the role of Vice President of Marketing and Operations in 2006 and COO in 2009. Gaetan has been a driving force in establishing AGT as a world leader in value-added & bulk commodity exports, overseeing facility operations and an export program to over 120 countries. He is a proven risk manager, leading the development of numerous new sales programs for AGT.
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Kenton Rein
Chief Legal Officer - AGT Food and Ingredients Inc.
Mr. Rein is the Chief Legal Officer at AGT Food and Ingredients Inc. and is responsible for AGT’s legal matters throughout the world, including AGT’s corporate and commercial legal and compliance matters.
Prior to joining AGT, Mr. Rein was a partner at a leading national law firms in Toronto and Calgary where he practiced corporate and commercial law. Mr. Rein holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the State University of New York and a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Calgary.
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