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Living Seeds International AG Management & Expertise

LSI has an experienced and dedicated international management team as well as a highly dedicated regional management, that is determined to continue the growth story backed by strong investors and business angels.

Company values & principles

Living Seeds International has defined five core values which embody the DNA of the company

  • Teamwork

    • LSI considers itself a team taking responsibility for people, society and environment

    • Work is based on principles and values dedicated to making the world a better place

    • LSI employees enjoy freedom with responsibility and commitment to support each other to continuously improve in personal life, home life, social life and work life

  • Quality and transparency

    • Strive to constantly provide customers with the "best class" organic or biodynamic seeds as well as operational excellency putting customers first

    • Continuous R&D improvement that is focused on participatory organic & biodynamic plant breeding

    • Transparency for clients from seeds to farm, shelf and Chefs

  • Focus on results

    • Work evaluation is based on satisfaction of customers, (co-)workers and partners in the value chain

    • Satisfaction of stakeholders is key in reaching financial, ecological, climate positive and social objectives

    • Commercial viable and sustainable

  • Creative and positive thinking

    • LSI thinks in challenges and solution

    • Approach derives from an open minded, independent and creative attitude of enterpreneurship

  • Diversity & minimal waste

    • A goal to preserve and increase diversity, in our farm, in our seeds, in the company

    • Minimize the use of resources by reducing waste and reusing materials and resources

    • Climate neutral certified and adding climate positive actions
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Organizational Structure

LSI has an experienced and dedicated international management team as well as a highly dedicated regional management, that is determined to continue the growth story

The central coordination tasks are performed by the holding company in Switzerland while most of the production takes place in Portugal and R&D for plant breeding is exercised by the Lebende Samen entity. The number of group employees in 2022 is 42.

Get to know us

Member of the Board
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Sven Kispalko

Head of expert retail/Alnatura & hobby markets
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Thomas Gutberlet

Managing Director of tegut gute Lebensmittel
GmbH & Co.KG
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Rembert Biemond

Founder, President at Rembert Biemond AB and member of executive board of Sekem

Dr. Jürg Kallay

SWISSPRIVATE AG
Dr. oec. HSG, entrepreneur and owner, private asset management and finance
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Dr. Georg Brann
CEO

20 years at Siemens AG in international management functions. As entrepreneur he joined Network Economy in 2005. Georg runs project and investments in Telecoms, Renewable Energy and for more than 7 years he developed the organic seed business of LSI. He received his PhD in Physics at the University Braunschweig.
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Dr. Helmut Knepel

Member of the board, Strategy Consultant

Entrepreneur, chairman and member of various supervisory boards and advisory boards (e.g. LURSE AG, immobilen-experten AG, f-fex AG) as well as executive consultant in the real estate and fund sector. Entrepreneurial activities in various companies and projects.
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Stefan Doeblin
Founder, responsible for fund raising, R&D, professional seeds, expansion

Stefan founded LSI in 2015 and invested the first funds via its Network Economy AG. He is an entrepreneur. Stefan worked for more than 20 years in the telecom sector, 8 years in the renewable energy sector and now in the organic and biodynamic agriculture sector. He studied Mathematics, University Göttingen and business administration, Technical University Berlin. He is also the President of the none-profit association Lebende Samen Living Seeds e.V. for plant breeding.
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Robert Schierl
CFO

Robert has more than 10 years of experience in finance andwealth management.He holds a degree in management and economics.
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Marko Kahle

Member of the board

With over 20 years of experience in management and business strategy he managesand offers consulting services to SMEs in the sectors of Renewable Energy, RealState and Wholesale.

Management Team
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Paulo Martinho
Cofounder, Production Director LSI

Degree in Economics and a master's degree in Organic Agriculture - Farming
System Ecology (Wageningen University - Netherlands). Paulo has more than ten years of experience in the agriculture sector.
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Micha Groenewegen
Cofounder, R&D Director & Portfolio Manager LSI

Degree in Science and Social Science and master's degree in Plant Sciences
(Wageningen University - Netherlands) with specialization in plant breeding and genetic resources. During his studies, he created his own company with
breeding and seed sales projects until he started the Living Seeds company.

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Nikolaus von Doderer
Sales Director LSI Central Europe

With Living Seeds since 2020. Managing Director at Victualium GmbH, Member of the Board of BioFoods (pvt) Ltd. Before: Various management roles in the organic and private equity industry

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Tânia Pinto
Sales Director Iberian and Sales Support

Degree in Food Engineering and a Post-graduation in Sales Management. Tânia has more than 16 years of experience in Food Retail and Sales Management and worked for ten years as a store director in one of the biggest companies in Food Retail in Portugal.
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José Domingues da Costa
Finance and Administration Director Iberian

Degree in Economics (U. Coimbra - Portugal) and master's degree in
Agroecology (NMBU – Norway). José has over ten years of experience in
business and finance, having worked for McKinsey, Technoserve and as
independent consultant prior to joining Living Seeds.
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Marisa da Silva
Marketing Director LSI

Degree in business management and a master's degree in marketing. Marisa
has more than eight years of experience in marketing, worked in two of the
biggest international media agencies (GroupM and Havas Media Group), and
launched an online digital investment bank (ES/PT).