S&W Seed Names Mark Harvey Chairman - Quick Facts

(RTTNews) - S&W Seed Co. (SANW) Thursday said alfalfa seed industry veteran and current member of the Board of Directors, Mark Harvey, has been appointed Chairman of S&W's Board of Directors, effective December 9.

Harvey, 59, was appointed following the retirement of current board chairman, Grover Wickersham, who will remain a member of the Board of Directors.

Harvey became a member of the Board of Directors of S&W after the company's acquisition of Seed Genetics International in April 2013. Harvey has over 35 years of experience in production processing and marketing of seed to many parts of the world, particularly branded alfalfa and clover.

Harvey managed a 10,000 acre family farm producing seed, wheat and pulse crops, along with wool and beef, from 1976 until 1996 when the company he founded, Paramount Seeds, was sold to Elders Ltd.

The firm also said Mark Wong, Chairman of Agrivida, has been elected to its Board of Directors at the 2014 annual meeting of its stockholders on December 9.

Mark Wong has more than 35 years of experience in agribusiness with particular expertise in technology integration and commercialization. Since 2008, he has been Chairman of the Board or CEO of Agrivida.

Concurrently, from 2009 to the present, he is a founding partner at Colorado Financial Holdings.