Alberto Gomes

Agronomist Engineer, DATAGRO

Arlindo Aprobatto

Agricultural consultant, DATAGRO High Performance

Cesar Henrique Costa

Executive Director, BBM – Brazilian Mercantile Exchange

Coming Soon.

Evandro Gussi

President, UNICA

Flavio Castellari

Executive Director, APLA - Arranjo Produtivo Local do Álcool

Guilherme Nastari

Director, DATAGRO

COMING SOON

Marcelo Morandi

Researcher, EMPBRAPA

Marco Alasmar

Technical Director, RAM Automação e Controle

Maria do Carmo Ferrante

Senior Banker, Rabobank, São Paulo - Brazil

Maria do Carmo Ferrante holds a Business Administration Degree from University of São Paulo and an MBA in Agribusiness from Fundação

Orlando Editore

Associate, DATAGRO Financial

I am a Business Administrator graduated from EAESP/ FGV specialized in
Agribusiness and structuring of financial operations including negotiation with
public, private and development institutions, national and international. Wide performance
in agribusiness companies especially the coffee and Agroenergy sectors having
participated in several financial transactions, including IPO of Latinoamericana company on the NY Stock Exchange. In recent years I have been dedicated to the ESG market and
Sustainable Finance, consulting companies and financial institutions.
I participate in several initiatives such as LAB – Financial Innovation Laboratory where it is
member of the Financial Instruments WG and Verdes, and as a member
of the Agriculture Sub-Committee of the CBI – Climate Bonds Initiative, in Brazil.
I have 45 years of professional experience. I was, for 24 years, a collaborator and director of
Regional Cooperative of Coffee Growers in Guaxupé, Ltda – COOXUPÉ having acted
in several sectors of which the activities of the financial area stand out, where I
responsible throughout my career. I was Elected Director for 4 years and Director
Executive for more than 15 years. I quit in 2001 and was Managing Director of
COOPARAISO for 2 years. I followed as a consultant where I supported the development of
other cooperatives of coffee growers and the National Coffee Council, main
organization of coffee producers in Brazil. I joined ADECOAGRO in 2006,
sugar, ethanol, and energy producing company in Brazil, grains and milk in Argentina and
Uruguay. I organized the entire administrative and financial area of the company, in Brazil,
structured all credit lines for the implementation of 2 sugar, alcohol and
energy, with grinding capacity of 10 million tons, as well as all the
working capital operations with local and external resources. In addition I was the
responsible, in Brazil, for organizing all the work of the administrative and
financial for the IPO of the Holding, in the bols
from NY. I hung up in 2013 to be the CEO
of the RVM Group, a family business with various activities such as distribution of
fuel, coffee production in southern MG, and soybean and livestock production in the MS,
remaining until 2018. In 2018 I took over the coordination of the Coffee Department of
Brazilian Rural Society and, in 2019, I joined PROACTIVA, consultancy
specialized in ESG, Sustainability and Human Rights with the mission of
develop the Sustainable Finance area. In May 2022 I joined the
DATAGRO, the largest agricultural consulting company in Brazil, where I work in the
development of activities in the coffee sector and structuring of operations
capital market finance, in particular for FIAGRO VECTIS DATAGRO
(VCRA11). Over the years I participated in several “pro bono” activities such as
Presidency of the Educational Foundation of Guaxupé and the Brotherhood of the
Guaxupé. I graduated in Business Administration from FGV in SP.

Otávio Tufi

Agricultural Coordinator and Auditor, BENRI Ratings

Forming

Degree in Agronomic Engineering from UNESP Jaboticabal.

Postgraduate MBA in Agribusiness Management from FUNDACE-USP.

Professional Experience

BENRI Rating – August 2011 until now.

Coordinator and Agricultural Auditor. Responsible for implementing and coordinating the BENRI Rating agricultural audit process. In summary, the activities are summarized in performing technical visits and auditing data of agricultural production of sugarcane, sugar and ethanol producing units.

Datagro Alta Performance – August 2011 to December 2015.

Agricultural area consultant for sugarcane, sugar and ethanol production units. Responsible for providing consultancy in the areas of: asset valuation – farms, equipment and operation; Agricultural due diligence; Project Finance; sizing and adequacy of the agro-industrial relationship; expansion, mechanization and automation projects; crop and varietal planning; advice for superior performance in agricultural operations; planting and mechanical cutting; logistics, transportation and automotive maintenance; and crop estimation.

Cerradão Plant – May 2011 to August 2011

Agricultural Manager. Responsible for the following activities: harvest and planting planning, preparation of the annual budget with the respective operational goals to be achieved, preparation of investment plans, mechanized and manual harvesting, sugarcane transport logistics, manual and mechanized planting, agricultural mechanization, automotive maintenance, technical specifications for acquisition of new equipment, agricultural control and cultural tracts.

Usina Santa Elisa e Jardest (now LDCSEV) – 2007 until May 2011

Agricultural Manager. Responsible for the activities: harvest and planting planning, preparation of the annual budget with the respective operational goals to be achieved, preparation of investment plans, mechanized and manual harvesting, sugarcane transport logistics, manual and mechanized planting, agricultural mechanization,

automotive maintenance, technical specifications for acquisition of new equipment, agricultural control and cultural tracts.

Active participation in the implementation of Cevasa, Continental and CNAA (National Sugar and Alcohol Company) units.

Usina Santa Elisa/Usina São Geraldo – 1997 to 2007

Manager of Agricultural Production. Responsible for agricultural labor, automotive maintenance, sugarcane transport, agricultural mechanization, harvesting and mechanized planting.

Santa Elisa Plant – 1986 to 1996

Coordinator of the Technical/ Operational Department of Cultural Tracts. Responsible for the technical recommendation of inputs (fertilizers, correctives, vinasse, filter cake, soot, herbicide and insecticide), besides the sizing and specifications of equipment and execution of operations.

Dr. Plinio Nastari

President, DATAGRO

Dr. Nastari holds M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Agricultural Economics, from Iowa State University.
Phi Kappa Phi (1983), Gamma Sigma Delta (1983).

Was Professor of Economics at FGV – The Getúlio Vargas Foundation, in São Paulo, in undergraduate and graduate level courses (MBA, Masters and Doctoral programs) from 1984 to 2001.

Member of PAPSAC, the Private and Public, Scientific, Academic and Consumer Food Policy Group, at Harvard University, in Cambridge, MA, USA, since 2012.

Professor at the MBA in Agribusiness Joint Programme established between ESPM in São Paulo and Université de Nantes, France, since 2015.

Former Executive Director and President of the Board of the Brazilian Association of Automotive Engineers (AEA), from 2000 to 2002, during the 1980s he helped the design of ethanol specifications which enabled the use of ethanol in fuel injected engines.

He has served as member of the Technical Committees of Brazil’s Interministerial Council on Sugar and Alcohol, National Energy Commission, and Commission for Reexam of the Energy Matrix. He has assisted the Brazilian government in Energy Planning (1984-86 and 1991-93), industry deregulation (1997-1999), trade negotiations (1991-2004), and trade disputes.

Representative of the Civil Society Specialist in Energy at the National Council on Energy Policy, at the Federal Government of Brazil, designated for the period of 2016 to 2018, and reassigned until 2020.

With extensive experience in trade negotiations and trade disputes at the International Trade Commission and the World Trade Organization, Dr. Nastari has acted before the Brazilian Government as Chief Economist in the trade disputes involving ethanol exports to the United States (US ITC), and subsidized sugar exports from the European Union, European Union bananas import regime, and Brazilian regime for the import of used and retreaded tires (WTO).

He is Arbitrator at the “Camara FGV de Arbitragem” (Arbitration Chamber of the Getulio Vargas Foundation), and at “Camara de Conciliação e Arbitragem da Sociedade Rural Brasileira”) and has acted as Expert Testimony in many cases, at this Chamber and at ICC, the International Chamber of Commerce, in Paris.

Lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – Second Assessment Report (2AR), and Consultant for Biomass Energy other than Wood, to the World Energy Council.

Co-founder and Member of the Sustainable Biofuels Consensus (Bellagio Consensus), Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Bellagio, Italy, 2008, and Participant of the Bled Strategic Forum, since 2008 in Bled, Slovenia.
Dr. Nastari is Member of the World Sugar Committee, at ICE Futures (Intercontinental Exchange) in New York, where recommendations are made for improvements in contract rules and other matters related to the world trade of sugar.

Member of the Council on Infrastructure of ACSP – Commerce Association of São Paulo, in São Paulo, since 2012.
Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee, National Laboratory for Science and Technology of Bioethanol, National Research Center on Energy and Materials, Brazil´s Ministry of Science, Technology, Inovation and Communication, Federative Republico f Brazil, since 2018.

President and CEO of DATAGRO Consulting Ltd., one of the world’s leading consulting company specialized in agricultural markets, serving clients in 41 countries, since 1984.

He leads a team of 97 collaborators at Datagro, housed in seven offices (Alphaville, Sao Paulo/Capital, Ribeirao Preto, Santos, Recife, Piracicaba, and New York), assisting a host of companies in market analysis, investments in production and logistics assets related to sugar, ethanol and other agrindustrial activities, in countries in the Americas, Africa, Europe, and Asia.

Throughout the years, Dr. Nastari established a fruitful cooperation between Datagro and the International Sugar Organization (ISO), jointly organizing the prestigious Sugar & Ethanol Conference that precedes the Person of the Year Award (BrazilCham) and the New York Sugar Dinner for the last ten years. He was Chairman of the 19th ISO Annual Seminar in London.

Organizer of the Sugar & Ethanol Summit – Brazil Day, for five consecutive years in London, in cooperation with Brazil’s Ministry of External Relations. Organizer for seventeen consecutive years of the traditional Datagro International Conference in São Paulo that precedes the São Paulo Sugar Dinner, and the Datagro Ceise Br Fenasucro Conference in Sertãozinho, SP, the largest equipment fair for sugar & ethanol in the world. Organizer of the Global Agribusiness Forum, in partnership with the Brazilian Rural Society (SRB), ABRAMILHO (corn producers), ABCZ (cattle producers),Citrus BR (orange juice producers) and Forum Nacional Sucroenergetico (sugar & ethanol producers) a biannual venue which has the official support of the USDA, the European Commission, and the governments of France, Germany, Portugal, Italy, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Israel, Turkey and Cuba.

Dr. Nastari is a frequent speaker at energy, biofuels and agribusiness conferences around the globe, with frequent attendance in London, Paris, Brussels, New York, Washington, Delhi, Bangkok, Tokyo, Barcelona, Kyoto, Johannesburg, Bled, Orlando, São Paulo, Singapore, Amsterdam and Dubai.

Honorary Citizen of the State of Nebraska, State Assembly of the State of Nebraska, USA (1998).
Honorary Citizen of the State of Pernambuco, State Assembly of the State of Pernambuco, Brazil (2016).
Scholarship President Ernesto Geisel, by the American Chamber of Commerce in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro (1978)

Prize Canassauro Rex (2002).

Keynote Speaker, New York Sugar Dinner 2013, New York, NY, USA (2013).

Prize Top Ethanol (2014), Unica, Union of the Sugar Cane Industry.

Prize Merit of Agroenergy (2018), UDOP, União dos Produtores de Bioenergia.

100 Most Influential in Energy, Full Energy (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019).

Ethanol Man of the Year, Mastercana International (2019).

Keynote Speaker, Sugar & Ethanol Dinner Brazil 2019, Bienal Pavillion Sao Paulo (2019).

Grand Official of the Order of Merit of Anhanguera, State Government of Goiás, 2017.

Commander, Order of Rio Branco, Brazilian Government, 2018.

From his contribution to the development of biofuels in the US Dr. Nastari was awarded and recognized at the White House for his contribution to the development of biofuels use in aviation (2003).

Married to Rute, the couple has three children, Francisco Guilherme (36), Louise (34) and Luiz Felipe (33), and four grandchildren, Carolina (6), José (5), Anna Sophie (4) and Francisco Luiz (3).

Ruy Toledo Piza

Associate, DATAGRO Financial

Member of DATAGRO Financial since 2022
• Bachelor in Law and Public Administration, with postgraduate degree in Banking Law in England.
• More than 15 years of experience in the financial market and in
law firms, focusing on structured and active products
stressed.
• Experience in Agribusiness, including farm management and
constant action in land and environmental regularization processes
of rural real estate.