Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors;
Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.
Effective September 22, 2021, the board of directors of AgroFresh Solutions,
Inc. (the "Company") appointed John Atkin as a director, and as a member of the
audit and compensation and talent committees of the board of directors. Mr.
Atkin was designated by PSP AGFS Holdings, L.P. (the "Investor"), and
constitutes one of the designees that the Investor is entitled to appoint
pursuant to the terms of the Investment Agreement, dated as of June 13, 2020,
between the Company and the Investor. Mr. Atkin, age 67, served as Chief
Operating Officer of Syngenta AG, a global leader in technology for agriculture
and horticulture, from February 2011 until his retirement in December 2014, and
prior to that had served as Chief Operating Officer of Syngenta Crop Protection
since 2000. Mr. Atkin currently serves as Chairman of Spearhead International, a
U.K.-based farming company, Chairman of AgBiTech, an agricultural technology
company, and as a member of the board of directors of Driscoll's, a global fresh
produce company. He also serves as non-executive board member of the Syngenta
Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture and of AgriMetis, a venture capital
funded company innovating in crop protection chemicals, and as a member of the
Paine Schwartz Partners Food Chain Advisory Board. Mr. Atkin graduated from the
University of Newcastle upon Tyne with a PhD and a BSc degree in Agricultural
Zoology.
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