Real Assets

Ospraie operates as an extension of LPs’ investment teams, providing specialist expertise to manage existing portfolios and construct new portfolios tailor-made to meet their unique investment objectives.

Thematic Capital Deployment

Access Ospraie’s proprietary deal flow and sector expertise in real assets.
  • Enhanced returns: Target asymmetric, risk-adjusted outcomes tied to commodity and cycle dynamics. 
  • Sector advantage: Deep technical insight and operational experience drive differentiated underwriting and execution.
  • Aligned partnerships: Direct, deal-level structures with transparency and reporting.
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Special Situations Asset Management

Engage Ospraie to stabilize, optimize, and grow asset value.
  • Performance & growth uplift: Deploy operational and technical expertise designed to stabilize performance and drive growth.
  • Capital efficiency: Restructure and reposition assets to drive sustainable returns.
  • LP-focused flexibility: Retain ownership while benefiting from Ospraie’s active oversight.
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The Ospraie Advantage

For over 25 years, Ospraie has built qualitative and quantitative information advantages across its core sectors. Ospraie Real Assets combines operational excellence with deep commodity market expertise to drive long-term value creation.

Global Expert Network

Ospraie has built a global network of sector experts and operators to perform and validate fundamental market research and support portfolio companies as operating partners.

Rigorous Economic Analysis

Ospraie performs rigorous supply and demand analysis, cost curve modeling, and on-the-ground validation to drive real asset investment returns.

Proprietary Sourcing Pipeline

Ospraie leverages its global network to drive proprietary deal flow through opportunistic off-market sourcing and targeted, thesis-driven strategies, with the majority of sourced opportunities coming from proprietary, non-competitive, or broken processes.

Unique Value Creation Playbook

Ospraie takes a hands-on portfolio management approach, rapidly identifying and executing improvement opportunities including, carve-outs, turnarounds, and complex or distressed situations.

Agriculture

Farmland & Agribusiness

Metals & Mining

Production & Trading

Energy

Traditional & Transitional

Processing & Logistics

Commodity Supply Chains

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Agrícola Cerro Prieto (ACP) is an international farming company specializing in the production of avocados, blueberries, and asparagus. Operating across three locations in Peru and Colombia, ACP manages approximately 9,500 production acres with distribution in North America, Europe, and Asia.

Agriculture

Sunshine is a silver mining operation focused on large, high-grade silver deposits in stable geographic jurisdictions. The Sunshine Mine, located in Idaho’s Silver Valley, is one of the largest and highest-grade silver assets in North America and is expected to enter production in 2028.

Metals & Mining

One Floral is a large-scale producer of floriculture and vegetable propagation plants with a specialty in potted hydrangeas. Headquartered in Ontario, Canada, One Floral manages more than 4 million square feet of growing and production space across six facilities in Canada and the United States.

Agriculture

Peacock is a pistachio farming operation located in Arizona’s Hualapai Valley. Formed as a greenfield development in 2018, Peacock manages more than 3,000 planted pistachio acres with a dedicated, in-house team of full-time employees and consultants overseeing farming operations.

Agriculture

Passel Farms is an integrated hog production business managing sites in six states and operating across the full pork value chain, from farrow-to-finish through processing and packing. Passel produces approximately 1.5 million market hogs annually, making it one of the nation’s largest pork producers.

Agriculture

Nabla Wind Hub is a wind-energy engineering services firm based in northern Spain that delivers life extension, performance improvement, asset optimization, M&A technical due diligence, and other services for the onshore and offshore wind industry worldwide.

Energy

Merrowie Property Trust is a diversified farming operation located in the Lachlan River Valley of New South Wales. Spanning approximately 85,000 acres, Merrowie manages approximately 29,000 acres of irrigated and dryland cropland, approximately 2,000 acres of almonds, and a substantial livestock grazing area.

Agriculture

Sinda is an exploration-stage precious metals company founded in 2017. The company is focused on discovering and developing high-grade silver and gold deposits in the state of Guanajuato and other highly prospective areas across Mexico.

Metals & Mining

Aperia provides tire management solutions aimed at improving fuel economy, road safety, and logistics efficiency for commercial fleets worldwide. Aperia has more than 1 million tires under management, including Fortune 500 customers across Europe and North America.

Processing & Logistics

Ospraie Real Assets

Dwight Anderson

Founder and Managing Partner

Nathan Ebeling

Partner
Head of Real Assets

Arman Bhuiyan

Research Analyst

Charlie Talcott

Research Analyst

Erik Peters

Research Analyst

Joseph Suttles **

Research Analyst

Lee Vetsch

Research Analyst

Tom Wiltrout **

Operating Partner – Agriculture

Carl Casale **

Operating Partner – Agriculture

James Fitzpatrick **

Analyst – Metals

Juan Ferreira **

Operating Partner

Greg Piper **

Operating Partner

Jaime Caballero **

Operating Partner

Julie Overbeck **

Operating Partner – Agriculture

**20+ Outsourced Subject Matter Experts

**  –  Consultant
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Dwight Anderson

Dwight Anderson is the Founder and Managing Partner of Ospraie. Mr. Anderson launched the original Ospraie Fund in 1999 in partnership with Tudor Investment Corporation (“Tudor”), where he served as Head of the Basic Industries Group before establishing Ospraie as an independent firm in 2004. Prior to joining Tudor, Mr. Anderson was a Managing Director at Tiger Management in charge of the Basic Industries and Commodities Group.

Mr. Anderson has served on numerous boards of directors of companies in various sectors of the commodity industry. Additionally, he serves on the boards of trustees of NYU Langone Medical Center, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School, and the United States Olympic Committee.

He holds an MBA from the University of North Carolina and an AB in history from Princeton University. Mr. Anderson has been a recipient of the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Young Alumni Award and its MBA Alumni Merit Award. In 2008, he was inducted into NYU’s Sir Harold Acton Society. In addition, Mr. Anderson was the 2016 recipient of the Princeton in Africa Founder’s Medal.

Nathan Ebeling

Nathan Ebeling is a Partner at Ospraie Management and the Head of Ospraie Real Assets, where he leads a 15+ person team managing $1bb+ in private assets across agriculture, metals, and energy. Mr. Ebeling is actively engaged across the 17 portfolio investments and currently serves on the board of Peacock Nuts, a large pistachio ranch in Arizona. In 2015, he led Ospraie’s joint venture in founding Pandion, a metals and mining private equity business, and served on the investment committee and board of directors.

Previously, Mr. Ebeling held positions at Ospraie overseeing trading and research for the hedge fund business, as well as serving as a portfolio manager. Prior to joining Ospraie, Mr. Ebeling was a Vice President in the J. Aron Commodities Group at Goldman Sachs. Mr. Ebeling was a Field Artillery Officer and was stationed at Fort Lewis, Washington.

Mr. Ebeling graduated with a BBA in finance, cum laude, from the University of Notre Dame.

Arman Bhuiyan

Arman Bhuiyan is a member of the Real Assets team at Ospraie Management, focusing primarily on agriculture investments. He was previously a Senior Associate at StepStone Group and an Associate at Harvard Management Company, where he similarly focused on agriculture, timber, and renewable energy investments. He began his career in debt capital markets at Lloyds Banking Group and in impact venture capital at Capria Ventures, a Bill Gates-backed fund. He received his MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and his undergraduate degree from New York University’s Stern School of Business.

Charlie Talcott

Charlie Talcott is a Senior Associate at Ospraie focusing on energy and technology investments. Mr. Talcott was previously Vice President of Operations at Stronghold Digital Mining (NASDAQ: SDIG) and an Associate at Beard Energy Transition Acquisition Corporation. He started his career as an analyst in the technology investment banking group at Barclays. Mr. Talcott is a Fulbright grantee, and he received his undergraduate degree in business administration and German literature and culture from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he graduated summa cum laude and with highest honors.

Erik Peters

Erik Peters is a Research Analyst at Ospraie. Prior to joining Ospraie, Mr. Peters was an associate at PwC Strategy&, where he advised Fortune 500 clients on value creation and operations transformation initiatives. Mr. Peters holds a BA in economics and a certificate in environmental studies from Princeton University.

Joseph Suttles

Joseph Suttles is an independent consultant who was engaged by Ospraie to assist in the management of investments within the ORA portfolio and to support the evaluation of new opportunities. His prior experience includes approximately 12 years at Teays River Investments, a management firm focused on long-term, vertically integrated projects exclusively in the production agriculture space. Mr. Suttles received a BS and an MS in agricultural economics from Purdue University.

Lee Vetsch

Lee Vetsch is an Investment Analyst at Ospraie, where he sources and evaluates venture capital, growth-equity, and real-assets opportunities while supporting portfolio companies with business development and strategic initiatives. Mr. Vetsch earned an MS in agribusiness and applied economics from North Dakota State University, authoring a published thesis on ag-tech valuations and co-authoring peer-reviewed papers and analysis for agribusiness. During school, his early experiences included industrial-focused equity research positions at the State of Wisconsin Investment Board and private equity firms. Mr. Vetsch remains involved in agricultural production through his family’s grain and livestock farm and through the co-founding of a small vertical farming business focused on leafy greens in the upper Midwest.

Tom Wiltrout

Tom Wiltrout is an Operating Partner who evaluates agriculture deals and serves on the boards of directors of companies in the OAS and ORA portfolios. Mr. Wiltrout has spent his entire career in the agriculture industry, including 35 years at Dow AgroSciences, where he served as a strategic leader developing the global seeds business. Mr. Wiltrout was a member of the American Seed Trade Association’s Board of Directors and served on the Board of Directors of Agri Institute, Indiana’s premier agricultural leadership program. He has also served on several additional boards of directors, including Ag Alumni Seeds, Innovative Seeds Solutions LLC, and Remington Holding LLC. Mr. Wiltrout earned a bachelor’s degree in forestry and a master’s degree in forest ecology from Purdue University.

Carl Casale

Carl Casale is an Operating Partner who evaluates agriculture deals and serves on several boards of directors of companies in the OAS and ORA portfolios. Previously, Mr. Casale served as a Non-Executive Director, Independent Director, and member of the Audit Committee and Independent Directors at Syngenta. Mr. Casale spent twenty-six years working for Monsanto Company, starting as a sales representative in 1984, and after several sales, marketing, business development, and business leadership roles, concluded his tenure as Chief Financial Officer. In 2011, he left Monsanto to become CEO of CHS Inc., the largest farmer-owned cooperative in the United States. Mr. Casale earned a bachelor’s degree in agricultural economics from Oregon State University and an Executive Master of Business Administration from Washington University in St. Louis.

James Fitzpatrick

James Fitzpatrick is an industrial metals analyst who serves as a consultant for Ospraie. He began his career in 2005 in sales and trading on the futures desk at Bear Stearns. In 2007, Mr. Fitzpatrick joined Ospraie as a trader in metals, equities, and FX. In 2010, he began working as an industrial metals analyst for Ospraie, and in 2016 he spun out of Ospraie to become an independent consultant. His recent work includes financial modeling for Ospraie’s private placement investments in the metals space, as well as commodity market price modeling, balance sheet analysis, and fundamental price forecasting. Mr. Fitzpatrick graduated from Princeton University in 2005 with a BA in political science and economics and has passed all three levels of the CFA exam.

Juan Ferreira

Managing Executive Officer – CEO Global Business Operations Agro Life Sector Sumitomo Chemical Co. / Independent board member – Agricola Cerro Prieto – representing Ospraie / Venture Partner – Cultivation Capital Ag Tech fund IV
Juan Ferreira is a Managing Executive Officer for Sumitomo Chemical Co. in Japan. He leads all global business operations and is the Global Strategic Advisor to the President of the Health and Crop Science Sector. He also serves as Executive Vice Chairman of several subsidiary boards and is a member of all boards of the company’s global operations. In these capacities, he leads innovative teams developing sustainable solutions to help farmers around the world feed a growing population and advance modern agriculture. He is an independent board member at Agrícola Cerro Prieto representing Ospraie. In addition, Juan is a venture partner at The Yield Lab AgTech Fund and the Cultivation Capital Ag Tech Fund, a general partner at Latin Leap VC Fund, and an advisory board member to Seed-X and Aggio.
Prior to this, and during his 25 years with Monsanto, Juan worked in seven countries across four continents and held several leadership roles, including CEO of Monsanto’s Latin America South division, CEO of EMEA, VP of Global Marketing and Technology Development, and U.S. Corn Product Management Business Lead.
When he was a St. Louis resident, Juan was recognized as one of St. Louis’ Diverse Business Leaders by the St. Louis Business Journal and chaired the board of the St. Louis Science Center. He also served as a board member of the American Chemistry Council and as Vice Chair of the Crop Protection Strategy Council of CropLife International.
Juan holds a Bachelor of Science in economics and a Master of Science in marketing from Universidad de los Andes, an executive MBA from Florida International University, and executive program credentials from Harvard Business School and Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.
Juan is married to Helena, and they have two children. Mariana is a Cornell MBA candidate (Class of 2026), and Agustin is pursuing a master’s degree in business analytics at the University of Miami. As a family, they enjoy golfing, hiking, skiing, and traveling. Juan and Helena have been active members of YPO in the Philippines, Buenos Aires, Alpine (Switzerland), St. Louis, and Miami chapters.

Greg Piper

Greg Piper is an Operating Partner for Ospraie focused on business development in the global commodity, energy, power, and agriculture sectors and currently serves as a director of World Kinect Corporation. Prior to his advisory work, Mr. Piper was the CEO and a board member of CP Energy, a private midstream oil and natural gas company. He also served as CEO of Gavilon Energy, a private midstream energy company, where he led the energy group’s spin-off from the Gavilon Group and then the sale of Gavilon Energy to NGL Energy Partners. Before his role as CEO of Gavilon Energy, he served as Chief Commercial Officer at the Gavilon Group, where he directed the company’s strategic initiatives, including the sale of the global agriculture business to Marubeni Corp.
Mr. Piper was also COO of Prisma Energy International, a global power and energy company with 15 businesses in 11 emerging market countries, and led the sale of Prisma Energy International to Ashmore Group. Mr. Piper began his career as a petroleum engineer with EOG in the Rockies.
Mr. Piper received his Bachelor of Science in petroleum engineering from the Colorado School of Mines and a Master of Business Administration from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas.

Jaime Caballero

Jaime Caballero is a Colombian lawyer who represents Ospraie as a Non-Executive Director on the Board of Agrícola Cerro Prieto. He concurrently serves as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of GeoPark Limited, an independent, publicly listed Latin American oil and gas company. Prior to joining GeoPark, he held senior executive positions at Ecopetrol S.A., Colombia’s largest integrated energy company, including five years as Group CFO, and at BP plc, where he served in various leadership roles across Colombia, North America, Africa, and Europe; culminating as CFO for the Brazil Region.
Mr. Caballero holds a J.D. from Universidad de los Andes, with an MBA in Energy Business from Fundação Getulio Vargas (Brazil) and executive studies at the Wharton School of Business and Stanford University.

Julie Overbeck

Julie Overbeck is an Operating Partner at Ospraie and serves on the boards of directors of companies in the OAS and ORA portfolios. Ms. Overbeck is currently the Managing Partner of Basset Capital, a family investment firm. After a 17-year career with Eli Lilly, Julie joined Remington Seeds in 1994 and, as President, was fundamental to the growth of Remington as it transitioned from a local production company to a worldwide producer of agricultural seed. She has been a leader in Girls Inc., serving on both the national board and the board of the Chicago affiliate. She is also active as a board member for several other philanthropic and business organizations. Ms. Overbeck received a BS in biology and a Master of Business Administration from Purdue University and has been honored by the University as an outstanding alumna.