Executive Profile

James Sayre Senior Managing Director, Cargill Ventures

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Background

Mr. James Sayre, Jim serves as Senior Managing Director of Cargill Ventures and Black River Asset Management. Mr. Sayre serves as a Senior Portfolio Manager of Black River Asset Management, Private Equity where he focuses on investments in the food sector. He manages a proprietary book of venture capital investments for Cargill. Prior to Black River, he was with Cargill since 1994, where he served as President and founder of Cargill Ventures. He oversaw Cargill’s investment ... in Endomatrix, Dust, Redpoint Bio, and Proofpoint. He previously oversaw investments in Compellent, Ecovation (acq. By Ecolab), and Nutri-Joy (acq. by Coca-Cola). He has significant financial advisory experience. He served as Director of Mergers and Acquisitions at Cargill, where he participated in transactions valued at over $5 billion. His key transactions include the acquisition of Continental Grain, Akzo Salt NA, and Vandemoortele and the divestitures of Cargill’s seed, rice, and North American poultry businesses. Mr. Sayre was a Senior Manager at Deloitte and Touche (Deloitte Consulting) and provided financial advisory services to a range of consumer and agriculture companies including the Northface, Sierra Design, Sunworld and several premium wineries. He held a position with the United States Department of Agriculture. He has been a Director of AgriNurture, Inc. since 2012. He serves as a Director of GuardianEdge Technologies, Inc., Virent Energy Systems, Inc., MarkMonitor, Inc./MarkMonitor Holdings, Inc., Intalio, and Virent Endomatrix. Mr. Sayre served as a Director of iTradeNetwork, Prometheus Energy Company, Ecosynthetix Inc., and Aspectrics Corporations. He served as a Director of DemandTec, Inc. from November 2001 to February 15, 2008. He also served in various positions in the United States Senate and the United States Department of Agriculture. Mr. Sayre holds an MBA from Harvard University and a B.A. in Economics from the University of California at Davis.

Corporate Headquarters 12700 Whitewater Drive Minnetonka, Minnesota 55343 United States Phone: 952-984-3735 Fax: 952-984-3923 Board Members Memberships Director MarkMonitor, Inc. Director GuardianEdge Technologies, Inc. Former Director EcoSynthetix Inc. Director Virent Energy Systems, Inc. Former Director Aspectrics Corporations Former Director Prometheus Energy Company 2001-2008 Former Director, Member of Audit Committee and Member of Compensation Committee DemandTec, Inc. 2012-Present Director and Member of Nomination & Compensation Committee AgriNurture, Inc. Education MBA Harvard University BA University of California, Davis Other Affiliations DemandTec, Inc. Harvard University University of California, Davis MarkMonitor, Inc. GuardianEdge Technologies, Inc. EcoSynthetix Inc. Virent Energy Systems, Inc. Aspectrics Corporations Prometheus Energy Company AgriNurture, Inc. Black River Asset Management, Private Equity

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