MEET OUR TEAM
Sergio Prendoné Pita
CEO & Chairman
Lawyer, executive with over 25 years’ experience in International Food Companies as a member of the Executive Board teams in Argentina, USA, Central America and Europe. M&A experience at International level leading these negotiations, processes and closings. Senior Executive Consultant for different BioTech, AgriTech, FoodTech and Renewable Energies companies.
Sam Bedi
Southeast Asian Board
Sam brings over 25 years of experience in Executive / General Management, Business Development, Strategy, and M&A across the Consumer Goods, Nutrition, and Healthcare sectors. Senior Executive & Board of Director member in different Multinational Companies worldwide.
Lino Barañao
Scientist Leader & Corporate Leader
PhD in Chemical Biology. Post Doctoral training at the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry in Munich (Germany), the National Institutes of Health and the MS Hershey Medical Center (USA)
Former Minister of Technology and Science of the Argentine Republic for 12 years.
Marcelo Scandella
Marketing Board
C-Level Marketeer, with more than 25 year of experience leading brands and innovation in large food companies like Unilever and Kellogg’s.
Member of commercial boards at global, regional and local level, Marcelo has strong experience leading foods categories during VUCA context with several successful business turnarounds. Led Hellmann’s brand to a consistent double digit growth for years through disruptive thinking and creativity, re-crafted Marketing Innovation in Kellogg’s LA recently and had several experiences as digital entrepreneur in Latam. Senior Executive with Global vision and experience.
Sergio Prendoné Pita
CEO & Chairman
Lawyer, executive with over 25 years’ experience in International Food Companies as a member of the Executive Board teams in Argentina, USA, Central America and Europe. M&A experience at International level leading these negotiations, processes and closings. Senior Executive Consultant for different BioTech, AgriTech, FoodTech and Renewable Energies companies.
Lino Barañao
Scientist Leader & Corporate Leader
PhD in Chemical Biology. Post Doctoral training at the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry in Munich (Germany), the National Institutes of Health and the MS Hershey Medical Center (USA)
Former Minister of Technology and Science of the Argentine Republic for 12 years.
Marcelo Scandella
Marketing Board
C-Level Marketeer, with more than 25 year of experience leading brands and innovation in large food companies like Unilever and Kellogg’s.
Member of commercial boards at global, regional and local level, Marcelo has strong experience leading foods categories during VUCA context with several successful business turnarounds. Led Hellmann’s brand to a consistent double digit growth for years through disruptive thinking and creativity, re-crafted Marketing Innovation in Kellogg’s LA recently and had several experiences as digital entrepreneur in Latam. Senior Executive with Global vision and experience.
Gabriel Roca
Sales Global Director
Bachelor of Business Administration – Executive MBA, Business Administration
Sales & Strategic Senior expert with over 25 years of experience leading teams and driving growth across various industries. Sales regional Director in charge of teams and business development projects at Americas level. Dir of the LATAM Region at Hochdorf Americas, responsible for expanding high-quality infant nutrition products across Latin America, achieving significant revenue growth and market penetration. Also was leader / Director at Tricolor Auto Group LLC, Albis, Nutri Care as General Manager and Royal & Sun Alliance.
Ed Monteagudo
USA & Corporate Board
General Management and Sales Executive with 30 Years of CPG Experience in North and Latin America working for companies such as Pepsico, Kraft Foods, and Mondelez International. Senior Executive as part of the Board of Directors of different Multinationals worldwide.
Luis Stein
Investor & Technology Business
Hi-tech entrepreneur, developed technology-intensive focused on Startups & innovation. Owner of AndesVC. Previously Director of NXTP. Co-founded
Imagine Lab, and Microsoft´s Innovation Center in Chile, developing “Startup Driven
Innovation” in several Latam businesses. Part of Fraunhofer Focus the German Innovation
institution.
Leader in tech ecosystem in Latin America as a member of the Board of Directors of the
World IT and Services Alliance (WITSA), VP
of the Ibero-American ICT Federation (Aleti)
and President of ChileTec.
Gabriel Roca
Sales Global Director
Bachelor of Business Administration – Executive MBA, Business Administration
Sales & Strategic Senior expert with over 25 years of experience leading teams and driving growth across various industries. Sales regional Director in charge of teams and business development projects at Americas level. Dir of the LATAM Region at Hochdorf Americas, responsible for expanding high-quality infant nutrition products across Latin America, achieving significant revenue growth and market penetration. Also was leader / Director at Tricolor Auto Group LLC, Albis, Nutri Care as General Manager and Royal & Sun Alliance.
Ed Monteagudo
USA & Corporate Board
General Management and Sales Executive with 30 Years of CPG Experience in North and Latin America working for companies such as Pepsico, Kraft Foods, and Mondelez International. Senior Executive as part of the Board of Directors of different Multinationals worldwide.
Luis Stein
Investor & Technology Business
Hi-tech entrepreneur, developed technology-intensive focused on Startups & innovation. Owner of AndesVC. Previously Director of NXTP. Co-founded
Imagine Lab, and Microsoft´s Innovation Center in Chile, developing “Startup Driven
Innovation” in several Latam businesses. Part of Fraunhofer Focus the German Innovation
institution.
Leader in tech ecosystem in Latin America as a member of the Board of Directors of the
World IT and Services Alliance (WITSA), VP
of the Ibero-American ICT Federation (Aleti)
and President of ChileTec.
Mandla Ndlovu
Africa/South Africa Market
Mandla is an accomplished Executive with more than 25 years leadership experience in multiple industries (utility, global FMCG, telecoms and agriculture) and international environments. He is experienced in Strategy analysis and implementation, Organization design and development, Business turnaround and Change management. He is now a Director and owner of a Power Management Solution Company in South Africa.
Michael Eriksson
Northern European Markets
Michael has +25 years experience in international business and has occupied leadership C-level positions for different companies across Latin America, West and East Europe and Russia. With an Engineer degree and a Master in Business Administration (MBA), Michael has been working in the forest and packaging industry and more recently in the food industry, with focus on protein ingredients.
Giulia Iorio - Ndlovu
Southern European Markets
An accomplished Global Leader with +20 years international experience in developed/developing/ emerging markets. Key strengths: Strong rare blend of consumer insights, analytics and marketing expertise, commercial savviness, growth-led innovation experience and people skills, deep knowledge of Sub-Sahara African markets, development and execution of consumer centric, purpose-led growth strategies across wide range of geographies and categories.
Ingo Schlüter
Middle East Markets
Ingo has more than 25 years of experience with companies ranging from large corporates and family conglomerates like Brenntag AG and Dr. Oetker Group, over medium sized companies up to start-ups. He came to Dubai 4 years ago as President for Middle East and Africa region with Döhler-Group and in 2019 co-founded the company Virgo Waters DMCC. He was featured as one of the “Top 10 most creative entrepreneurs in the food & beverage industry 2021” by APAC Entrepreneur Magazine. Ingo holds an Executive MBA from the University of Economics, Vienna and the Carlson School of Management in Minnesota, USA. He I working on his Doctorate in Business Administration at Aston University, UK.
Mandla Ndlovu
Africa/South Africa Market
Mandla is an accomplished Executive with more than 25 years leadership experience in multiple industries (utility, global FMCG, telecoms and agriculture) and international environments. He is experienced in Strategy analysis and implementation, Organization design and development, Business turnaround and Change management. He is now a Director and owner of a Power Management Solution Company in South Africa.
Michael Eriksson
Northern European Markets
Michael has +25 years experience in international business and has occupied leadership C-level positions for different companies across Latin America, West and East Europe and Russia. With an Engineer degree and a Master in Business Administration (MBA), Michael has been working in the forest and packaging industry and more recently in the food industry, with focus on protein ingredients.
Giulia Iorio - Ndlovu
Southern European Markets
An accomplished Global Leader with +20 years international experience in developed/developing/ emerging markets. Key strengths: Strong rare blend of consumer insights, analytics and marketing expertise, commercial savviness, growth-led innovation experience and people skills, deep knowledge of Sub-Sahara African markets, development and execution of consumer centric, purpose-led growth strategies across wide range of geographies and categories.
Ingo Schlüter
Middle East Markets
Ingo has more than 25 years of experience with companies ranging from large corporates and family conglomerates like Brenntag AG and Dr. Oetker Group, over medium sized companies up to start-ups. He came to Dubai 4 years ago as President for Middle East and Africa region with Döhler-Group and in 2019 co-founded the company Virgo Waters DMCC. He was featured as one of the “Top 10 most creative entrepreneurs in the food & beverage industry 2021” by APAC Entrepreneur Magazine. Ingo holds an Executive MBA from the University of Economics, Vienna and the Carlson School of Management in Minnesota, USA. He I working on his Doctorate in Business Administration at Aston University, UK.
Ankit Shrivastava
Technology, AI & Quantum Global Director
Executive & strategic business technology leader in Hybrid Cloud Transformation & Modernization, AI, Automation, Quantum Computing & Enterprise Data Transformation & Management. He has expertise in IT strategy, AI & Data driven Platform & Product architecture, application modernization, and leading large-scale complex transformation programs. He has 20+ years of experience in Consulting with master´s degree in Computer Science. Currently, he is an Executive Partner in Hybrid Cloud Services group of IBMs North America, Healthcare, Life Science. He has worked for Deloitte Consulting, Publicist. Sapient helping Fortune 100 clients to deliver large transformation.
Carla Tiaki Utsunomiya
Brazil Regional Markets Leader
Senior Commercial Expert. Carla has more than 20 years´ experiencein sales and business development at a national and international scale, +20 years´ experience in the Food distribution. Master´s degree in computing and postgraduate in business management from Maringa State University of Maringa.
Marcelo Elias
ANDEAN Region Markets Leader
Management and creation of leading companies in the industrial and financial sector. Oriented to business development from startups to ongoing companies through constant innovation. Senior investor and consultant in the markets of the Andean countries of LATAM.
Miguel Ratto
Operations - Manufacture Leader
Engineer graduate in La Plata University and Master of Business Administration (focus in Finance & Strategy) in UCA. More than 30 years of experience in Engineering and Manufacturing areas, leading local and regional operations in B2B International Company (Ingredion) that produce ingredients for food, beverage, paper, health & personal care and animal nutrition industries. Strong leadership and experience in Capital Project evaluation and execution, Quality Assurance, Safety, Environmental and Operations continuous improvement tools.
Ankit Shrivastava
Technology, AI & Quantum Global Director
Executive & strategic business technology leader in Hybrid Cloud Transformation & Modernization, AI, Automation, Quantum Computing & Enterprise Data Transformation & Management. He has expertise in IT strategy, AI & Data driven Platform & Product architecture, application modernization, and leading large-scale complex transformation programs. He has 20+ years of experience in Consulting with master´s degree in Computer Science. Currently, he is an Executive Partner in Hybrid Cloud Services group of IBMs North America, Healthcare, Life Science. He has worked for Deloitte Consulting, Publicist. Sapient helping Fortune 100 clients to deliver large transformation.
Carla Tiaki Utsunomiya
Brazil Regional Markets Leader
Senior Commercial Expert. Carla has more than 20 years´ experiencein sales and business development at a national and international scale, +20 years´ experience in the Food distribution. Master´s degree in computing and postgraduate in business management from Maringa State University of Maringa.
Marcelo Elias
ANDEAN Region Markets Leader
Management and creation of leading companies in the industrial and financial sector. Oriented to business development from startups to ongoing companies through constant innovation. Senior investor and consultant in the markets of the Andean countries of LATAM.
Miguel Ratto
Operations - Manufacture Leader
Engineer graduate in La Plata University and Master of Business Administration (focus in Finance & Strategy) in UCA. More than 30 years of experience in Engineering and Manufacturing areas, leading local and regional operations in B2B International Company (Ingredion) that produce ingredients for food, beverage, paper, health & personal care and animal nutrition industries. Strong leadership and experience in Capital Project evaluation and execution, Quality Assurance, Safety, Environmental and Operations continuous improvement tools.
Luis Reveles
Panama Market
Industrial Engineer, Master in Digital Marketing and EMBA by INCAE, more
than 25 years of experience in the food and beverage industry. Expert in B2B & B2C Management and implementing innovation
strategies, digitalization, route to market, acquisition and merger projects. Strong
multicultural vision having led operations in more than 8 countries in Latin America, for companies such as Avon, Arca Continental Lindley, Grupo Bimbo diagnosing market opportunities and adapting global strategies
to local tactical business plans.
Diego Fernández
Ecosystem Leader
Serial Entrepreneur with several years of experience in technology startups (3 exits). Executive Board of various international Startups & VC funds and as an Advisor. Strategy advisor and investment strategist for several international startups and a deal flow scouter and evaluator for Investment funds and Corporations.
Stefano Modena
M&A Leader
Stefano graduated as Business Administration – Università Bocconi – Milan and Political Science and International Relations at Mercatorum University, Rome. Managing Partner of Governance Advisors . Managerial experience in international companies in Spain as CFO of Unichips España and Director of Administration, Finance and Control of Albright & Wilson Iberica. Controller of the Alitalia Cargo Division and Head of Reporting for Montedison´s New York Stock Exchange. Auditor at Coopers & Lybrand. He currently holds the positions of Independent Director and Chairman of the Management Control Committee of EEMS Italia, listed company in the energy sector.
Pablo Kitay
New Market Development
A multi-faceted executive with over 35 years of experience with strong business acumen and broad suite of manufacturing, supply chain, sales, marketing and research
background have played a role in helping different businesses to develop new markets and categories.
Pablo has worked at Kraft, Mondelez, Johnson & Johnson, and Anheuser-Busch – where he has overseen strategic planning
efforts for LATAM and Caribbean regions.
He co-found Nube business intelligence agency in 2014 and he leads the Consultancy
team – to develops global go-to-market strategies for innovative products and
services.
Luis Reveles
Panama Market
Industrial Engineer, Master in Digital Marketing and EMBA by INCAE, more
than 25 years of experience in the food and beverage industry. Expert in B2B & B2C Management and implementing innovation
strategies, digitalization, route to market, acquisition and merger projects. Strong
multicultural vision having led operations in more than 8 countries in Latin America, for companies such as Avon, Arca Continental Lindley, Grupo Bimbo diagnosing market opportunities and adapting global strategies
to local tactical business plans.
Diego Fernández
Ecosystem Leader
Serial Entrepreneur with several years of experience in technology startups (3 exits). Executive Board of various international Startups & VC funds and as an Advisor. Strategy advisor and investment strategist for several international startups and a deal flow scouter and evaluator for Investment funds and Corporations.
Stefano Modena
M&A Leader
Stefano graduated as Business Administration – Università Bocconi – Milan and Political Science and International Relations at Mercatorum University, Rome. Managing Partner of Governance Advisors . Managerial experience in international companies in Spain as CFO of Unichips España and Director of Administration, Finance and Control of Albright & Wilson Iberica. Controller of the Alitalia Cargo Division and Head of Reporting for Montedison´s New York Stock Exchange. Auditor at Coopers & Lybrand. He currently holds the positions of Independent Director and Chairman of the Management Control Committee of EEMS Italia, listed company in the energy sector.
Andrés Swinburn
International Market Development
Engineer, with personal and professional experience in different markets in LATAM, USA & EUROPE. Andres has been nurtured on the basis of innovation and business entrepreneurship as owner / partner. More than 25 years actively participating in the creation of companies and projects in different areas and sectors with the consumer goods / food industry; Since 2006 we have been dedicated to the intermediation, development and search for food products with added value I+D.
Alejandro Hernandez Kaegi
Mexican Market
Economist. More than 30 years of experience representing international companies in Mexico. Co-founder of the Mexican Franchise Association. Licensee of The Athlete’s Foot Stores, Guess Jeans, KSwiss, and others. Executive Leader of International and National food manufacturing companies positioning new brands and products in retail stores chains in Mexico. Former Partner and CEO in México of Club Marketing Services Inc., Walmart´s only approved official broker and developer of new food products in the USA. Exporter to Canada of Mexican seafood products. Actually developing and manufacturer of healthy food products for Mexican government’s social programs, and international broker of commodities and food products.
Vitus Ejesieme
Nigeria Market
PhD Chemistry / MSc. Chemistry Nelson Mandela University.- BSc. Hon Formulation Science (Chemistry). Post grad. Cert. Business Management. BSc. Hon Industrial Chemistry. Nutritionist/Quality Assurance Manager – PhD Chemistry by research – Investigating the combustion kinetics of coal-microalgae composite. Formulating blends, carrying out TGA, deducing ignition, rates, activation energy etc. Carrying out thermogravimetric analysis TGA, simulating and modelling kinetics etc. Collecting, collating, cleaning and categorized data and carrying out statistical analysis.
Jorge Gustavson
Chile Market
Jorge has 30+ years experience in food industry, being Managing Director and CEO for different companies in the last 20 years. He managed and developed international brands like BK, KFC, Pizza Hut, Wendy’s, Telepizza and others in different countries in Latam; so he has a large experience in Leadership, General Management, Strategy, Business Development, HR and M&A across the food sector.
Andrés Swinburn
International Market Development
Engineer, with personal and professional experience in different markets in LATAM, USA & EUROPE. Andres has been nurtured on the basis of innovation and business entrepreneurship as owner / partner. More than 25 years actively participating in the creation of companies and projects in different areas and sectors with the consumer goods / food industry; Since 2006 we have been dedicated to the intermediation, development and search for food products with added value I+D.
Alejandro Hernandez Kaegi
Mexican Market
Economist. More than 30 years of experience representing international companies in Mexico. Co-founder of the Mexican Franchise Association. Licensee of The Athlete’s Foot Stores, Guess Jeans, KSwiss, and others. Executive Leader of International and National food manufacturing companies positioning new brands and products in retail stores chains in Mexico. Former Partner and CEO in México of Club Marketing Services Inc., Walmart´s only approved official broker and developer of new food products in the USA. Exporter to Canada of Mexican seafood products. Actually developing and manufacturer of healthy food products for Mexican government’s social programs, and international broker of commodities and food products.
Vitus Ejesieme
Nigeria Market
PhD Chemistry / MSc. Chemistry Nelson Mandela University.- BSc. Hon Formulation Science (Chemistry). Post grad. Cert. Business Management. BSc. Hon Industrial Chemistry. Nutritionist/Quality Assurance Manager – PhD Chemistry by research – Investigating the combustion kinetics of coal-microalgae composite. Formulating blends, carrying out TGA, deducing ignition, rates, activation energy etc. Carrying out thermogravimetric analysis TGA, simulating and modelling kinetics etc. Collecting, collating, cleaning and categorized data and carrying out statistical analysis.
Jorge Gustavson
Chile Market
Jorge has 30+ years experience in food industry, being Managing Director and CEO for different companies in the last 20 years. He managed and developed international brands like BK, KFC, Pizza Hut, Wendy’s, Telepizza and others in different countries in Latam; so he has a large experience in Leadership, General Management, Strategy, Business Development, HR and M&A across the food sector.
Nicolas Apro
LATAM Plant-Based Dev Leader
Chemical Engineer (UBA) – MSc in Food Technology (IATA – SCIC – Spain).
42 years of experience in Food Value Added, Integration of Value Chain, Technical Assistance in projects of Added Value to Grains, Innovation and Development of food products.
Former Director of the Research and Development Center for the Industrialization of Cereal sand Oilseeds (INTI).
Ranga Manavalan
India Market
Over 33 years’ experience as Entrepreneur and Company owner.
Founded & CEO successfully for 9 years a manufacturing Company in India with 4000 employees.
Partner and CEO in different European Companies.
International Investor (VC) and business expert.
Hiroaki Kadota
Japan R&D Leader Healthy Food & Nutrition
He has worked for more than 40 years in the research and development, marketing and sale of healthy foods, nutritional supplements and cosmetic products for different Japanese companies, based on original and innovative raw materials and ingredients. He has been involved in the planning, manufacturing, and marketing of various differential / original products.
He has led the development of “Aobana Extract” to significantly eliminate/improve the consequences of Diabetes. Since 2009, he has directed JH Kikau, a consulting company that has extensive networking throughout the Japanese market, in companies and research centers related to health and nutrition.
Florentino Arce
Finance Leader Global Markets
Accounting, Finance and Administration Sr advisory.
Specialist in IFRS, US GAAP and Argentinean GAAP.
Internationalization of operations. Assistance in financing rounds.
US CPA, Argentina CPA
Professor School of Economic Sciences, UBA
OLX – Sr Finance Advisor
Vostu: CFO
PricewaterhouseCoopers – Senior Consultant debt and equity registratio
ns SEC,, Nasdaq and NYSE (Mercadolibre and Pampa Energía IPOs); Registration under registrations in European markets.
Audits of financial statements under local, US GAAP and IFRS.
Nicolas Apro
LATAM Plant-Based Dev Leader
Chemical Engineer (UBA) – MSc in Food Technology (IATA – SCIC – Spain).
42 years of experience in Food Value Added, Integration of Value Chain, Technical Assistance in projects of Added Value to Grains, Innovation and Development of food products.
Former Director of the Research and Development Center for the Industrialization of Cereal sand Oilseeds (INTI).
Ranga Manavalan
India Market
Over 33 years’ experience as Entrepreneur and Company owner.
Founded & CEO successfully for 9 years a manufacturing Company in India with 4000 employees.
Partner and CEO in different European Companies.
International Investor (VC) and business expert.
Hiroaki Kadota
Japan R&D Leader Healthy Food & Nutrition
He has worked for more than 40 years in the research and development, marketing and sale of healthy foods, nutritional supplements and cosmetic products for different Japanese companies, based on original and innovative raw materials and ingredients. He has been involved in the planning, manufacturing, and marketing of various differential / original products.
He has led the development of “Aobana Extract” to significantly eliminate/improve the consequences of Diabetes. Since 2009, he has directed JH Kikau, a consulting company that has extensive networking throughout the Japanese market, in companies and research centers related to health and nutrition.
Florentino Arce
Finance Leader Global Markets
Accounting, Finance and Administration Sr advisory.
Specialist in IFRS, US GAAP and Argentinean GAAP.
Internationalization of operations. Assistance in financing rounds.
US CPA, Argentina CPA
Professor School of Economic Sciences, UBA
OLX – Sr Finance Advisor
Vostu: CFO
PricewaterhouseCoopers – Senior Consultant debt and equity registratio
ns SEC,, Nasdaq and NYSE (Mercadolibre and Pampa Energía IPOs); Registration under registrations in European markets.
Audits of financial statements under local, US GAAP and IFRS.
Ricardo Weill
R&D Scientific & Dairy Expert
Ricardo has more than 40 years of experience in the food industry focused on R&D and innovation.
He was R&D director for Danone Argentina for 20 years and scientific director for Danone Latam.
Highly oriented to provide Business-oriented scientific support with a very disruptive mind regarding innovation with experience in the implementation of breakthrough innovation processes.
He is an advisor to international dairy companies and foodtech startups.
Bruno de Cindio
Food Thermodyanmics & Rheology Expert
Senior Expert in chemical engineering and thermodynamics, rheology and non Newtonian fluidynamics. His research activity has been mainly focused on food processing and on food rheology. He has lead many very innovative research projects, also in cooperation with food companies (Unilever, SME, Pavan, Barilla, Rummo, etc). He founded some spin off and startup operating in the food market. More than 40 years of experience has made him one of the most expert in the food field.
Giuseppe Iorio
Italy Market
With more than 15 years devoted to processes improvement, optimization in aviation, chemical and food business. His strength lies in clear understanding of business needs, being capable to support them and overcome road blocks to reach goals established.
Very determined, passionate and super committed team player, inspiring, courageous, resilient, lifelong learning, curious, willing to extra mile and ask the right set of question.
During his career, he worked in multinational environment like Lavazza Group, Treofan, GE.
Michael Frohlich
Israel Market
Agricultural Engineer, M.A., with specialization in irrigation and a long experience in management of socio economic projects in Latin America and in the field of international cooperation, as Director, Consultant, Advisor and Lecturer on these issues and use of new technologies.
Ricardo Weill
R&D Scientific & Dairy Expert
Ricardo has more than 40 years of experience in the food industry focused on R&D and innovation.
He was R&D director for Danone Argentina for 20 years and scientific director for Danone Latam.
Highly oriented to provide Business-oriented scientific support with a very disruptive mind regarding innovation with experience in the implementation of breakthrough innovation processes.
He is an advisor to international dairy companies and foodtech startups.
Bruno de Cindio
Food Thermodyanmics & Rheology Expert
Senior Expert in chemical engineering and thermodynamics, rheology and non Newtonian fluidynamics. His research activity has been mainly focused on food processing and on food rheology. He has lead many very innovative research projects, also in cooperation with food companies (Unilever, SME, Pavan, Barilla, Rummo, etc). He founded some spin off and startup operating in the food market. More than 40 years of experience has made him one of the most expert in the food field.
Giuseppe Iorio
Italy Market
With more than 15 years devoted to processes improvement, optimization in aviation, chemical and food business. His strength lies in clear understanding of business needs, being capable to support them and overcome road blocks to reach goals established.
Very determined, passionate and super committed team player, inspiring, courageous, resilient, lifelong learning, curious, willing to extra mile and ask the right set of question.
During his career, he worked in multinational environment like Lavazza Group, Treofan, GE.
Michael Frohlich
Israel Market
Agricultural Engineer, M.A., with specialization in irrigation and a long experience in management of socio economic projects in Latin America and in the field of international cooperation, as Director, Consultant, Advisor and Lecturer on these issues and use of new technologies.
Steve Boutell
Oceanica Leader
Steve has more than 25 years of experience in sales and business development at a global scale. Also +10 years experience in the Food Industry. He has a master in business administration from Victoria University of Wellington.
Jack Yin
Asian Leader
More than 25 years finance advisory and investment management experience. Promotion of strong China/New Zealand business relations and he has developed a strong network of influential contacts. President of his own Food, Supplements and Investment Companies.
Steve Boutell
Oceanica Leader
Steve has more than 25 years of experience in sales and business development at a global scale. Also +10 years experience in the Food Industry. He has a master in business administration from Victoria University of Wellington.
Jack Yin
Asian Leader
More than 25 years finance advisory and investment management experience. Promotion of strong China/New Zealand business relations and he has developed a strong network of influential contacts. President of his own Food, Supplements and Investment Companies.
José Agustín Magallanes
Paraguay Markets
Business Administration UNAM-Mexico; MIM/MBA AGSIM-Thunderbird, Arizona, US; PAD IAE-Pilar, Argentina. Experience of 40 years in North and Latin American Agribusiness and Food companies,
covering several positions from origination, trading logistics to sales/marketing and President/GM.
Always focused on strategy; human, product and company development along with sustainability. Developed sound network and strong relationship with suppliers, customers, unions, authorities and associations- chambers. Currently President of AMCHAM Paraguay.
Daniel Vazquez
Southern Cone Markets
General Manager and CEO in Cargill Paraguay and
Bolivia. Previously worked in Argentina.
More than 40 years in the Food Industry, with focus in Commercial Business Development, Strategy, Manufacturing areas and sourcing the main Commodities. Strong relationships and experience with customers, competitors and different suppliers.
Management of Industrial Operations, including safety and Environmental Security in: Factory, Ports, Barges, Grain Storages, etc. Main objective to maintain continuous improvement of the processes in all areas, seeking excellence in food quality. Currently President of the Food Bank – Paraguay.