Skye is Head of Portfolio Management for Westchester Group. She works closely with the investment teams and senior leadership to guide strategic and tactical decisions on existing and new portfolios. Skye joined the firm from BlackRock where she was responsible for coverage of the agriculture sector within the natural resources equity team. In this role she managed/co-managed three strategies across eight portfolios totaling US$2.9 billion of assets under management, including US$900 million of direct agricultural exposure. Prior to BlackRock, Skye spent 15 years at Colonial First State Asset Management, working for the firm in Sydney and London to establish and manage its global agribusiness equity product. Skye graduated with a Bachelor’s of Agricultural Economics, specializing in Agribusiness from the University of New England, Armidale, NSW and a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment from the Securities Institute Australia. She holds the CAIA designation.

Martin Davies 25 years in the agricultural industry have included posts within corporate agriculture, consultancy and investment. Prior to joining Westchester in September 2014 he led the deployment of institutional investors’ capital into farmland in New Zealand, Australia, Romania, Poland and Chile for Bank of New York Mellon’s asset management subsidiary Insight Investment. After 13 years with the Cooperative Group Farms in the UK, his lead into agricultural investing was 5 years spent working on agricultural investment projects for private investors in Poland, Romania, Bulgaria and Ukraine. An Agricultural graduate of The University of Reading, Martin was Chairman of the 2017 Oxford Farming Conference. He was a 2006 Nuffield Scholar and is a member of the Institute of Agricultural Management and a Director of Nuffield International.