Select Harvests Ltd (ASX) has appointed senior agribusiness executive Kristina Hermanson as managing director and chief executive officer, positioning one of Australia’s largest almond businesses for its next phase of growth and value creation.
Hermanson will start in the role on August 3, 2026, replacing current managing director and CEO David Surveyor, who will step down on July 31, 2026. She brings more than 25 years of global experience across agricultural processing, manufacturing, fast-moving consumer goods and institutional investment management.
The highly experienced Hermanson joins Select Harvests from Nuveen Natural Capital, where she was Head of APAC & Africa and led a portfolio of about A$3 billion in assets under management across 74 agricultural properties in Australia, Asia-Pacific and Africa, including almonds, macadamias and viticulture.
Before Nuveen, Hermanson held senior leadership roles with FMC Corporation as managing director for ANZ and ASEAN, led enterprise-wide transformation at Coca-Cola Amatil and spent nearly a decade with Archer Daniels Midland in profit-and-loss leadership, mergers and acquisitions and integration roles across Europe, Africa and Asia-Pacific.
Board backs new leadership
Select Harvests chair Travis Dillon said the board was pleased to welcome Hermanson to the company.
“We are delighted to welcome Kristina to Select Harvests. She brings a rare combination of deep agribusiness knowledge, a manufacturing mindset and capital discipline, together with a genuine passion for the agricultural sector and regional Australia. The Board is confident she is the right leader to drive the next phase of growth and value creation for our shareholders.”
Hermanson said: “It is a privilege to be appointed to lead Select Harvests, one of Australia’s largest and most respected almond businesses. I look forward to working with the Board, the executive leadership team and our people to build on the Company’s strong foundations and to deliver sustainable, long-term growth.”
About Select Harvests
Select Harvests is an ASX-listed, fully integrated almond business with operations spanning orchards, primary processing and secondary value-added processing.
The company’s orchard portfolio includes owned, leased, joint venture and managed orchards, while its processing capabilities cover hulling, shelling, sorting, packing, blanching, roasting, slicing, dicing, meal and paste production.
Headquartered in Melbourne, Select Harvests has orchards across north-west Victoria, southern New South Wales and South Australia. Its Carina West Processing Facility is at Wemen in north-west Victoria, supplying almonds to domestic and international markets including supermarkets, health food stores, food manufacturers, retailers and the almond trade.