“We mine the future with value-creating ideas, strategies, and deals.”

-Richard Gilmore, CEO

Mission Statement

We provide our corporate and public sector clients in the agro and biotech sectors with an integrated approach to problem-solving and a roadmap to the future. We combine research with analysis; policy and strategic planning with marketing and decision-making; and finance and investment with raising capital. GIC’s approach is to capture value with every opportunity.

Company Overview

The GIC Group is an international agribusiness company.  We provide five core services : consulting, investment advisory, incentivization strategiesand trading instruments to incentivize sustainable agriculture practices, food security, and food safety. Its public and private sector client base varies widely and includes strategic multinational corporations, international financial institutions, and international and nongovernmental organizations.  Our financial advisory services are directed at the launching of a suite of inset futures contracts (CPC- commodity plus carbon), capital raising, M&A and divestitures.  Our food safety work remains focused on Asian markets in tandem with the US and our supply chain work targets analytics, tracking services, strategic planning and transaction management services.

Our Core

  • Financial Services GIC offers agent services to suppliers and exporters, a service which entails origination, pricing, sales, trade financing, and delivery services. Our financial advisory capabilities span across joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, debt syndication and restructuring, and trusteeship services.
  • Carbon Services We provide firms and perspective investors with comprehensive market, regulatory and risk analysis, as well as financial valuation and investment strategies, for addressing climate change regulation and carbon emissions.
  • Market Consulting GIC’s consulting services center on export promotion, providing marketing, financing and agent representation services to suppliers worldwide, including CBI member countries.
  • Food Safety Food quality figures importantly in all GIC’s transactions. GIC founded and manages the Global Food Safety Forum; an industry non-profit organization to advance food safety through harmonization of standards, international compliance, certification, and risk minimization operations at the plant level.
  • Food Security Our food security work under USAID and White House auspices is to provide investment banking services to owners of innovative agricultural technologies and eligible counterpart partners from the private sector and non governmental organizations in feed the future countries, including 7 African countries. The investment advisory service is provided, in part, to improve competitive value chains, food production, sustainable agriculture, and income for subsistence farmers. GIC’s first successful transaction under this activity has been the licensing of a no till technology to a Ghanaian company for manufacturing and sale of the equipment in Ghana as well as other countries in West Africa.