André Rocha

Executive President, SIFAEG.

10º Vice-President of FIEG since 2019;

President of the National Sugar-Energy Forum 2013/2021;

President of CELG 2004-2007

Antônio Carlos Souza Lima Neto

Managing Director, SEBRAE-GO

Elcio Perpétuo Guimarães

General Manager, EMBRAPA Arroz e Feijão

Ernani Judice

Founder & CEO, Agrion

Academic Training

• Business Administration – PUC Rio de Janeiro (1995 – 2000 drop out to follow international racing career)

Business Professional Experience

Sales Manager – MONY Life Insurance Company (Brazil / USA 1997 – 1999)
• Life Insurance Company and Variable Income Funds, with headquarters in the USA;
• Focus on selling income-based life insurance in the US and approach of the company with funds in Brazil (e.g. Banco Itaú, Banco
Multiplic).

Partner & General Manager – Holding of Brazil Insurance Broker
Performance Insurance (United States 1997 – 1999)
• Development and management of life insurance wallet with servers of the State of São Paulo, from the bank Nossa Caixa Nosso Banco;
• Insurance in general.
• Representation in the state of Rio de Janeiro of COSESP (Companhia de
Insurance of the State of São Paulo)
• Insurance Platform South America Insurance

Executive Director & Partner – Two Arches Waste Treatment Center
Other enterprises (managing partner) (United States 2005 – 2009)
• Landfill planning, implementation, licensing and management private and solutions for urban and health waste in the northern region of state of Rio de Janeiro. Contracts with 12 municipalities in the region.
• Leadership in project implementation and management of:
• Street lighting,
• Collection of garbage,
• Management of hospitals and health points,
• Works, Cleaning and maintenance of public places,

Founder (CEO 2009 – 2014 and 2106 – 2018) – Geocycle Biotechnology S/A (Brazil 2009 – currently)
Business Model Formation, Preparation of Business Plans,
Executive Management;
• Development of technology, production process (bench, plant pilot, Ramp up), and sales;
• Funding, relationship with financial institutions, entities of the sector, M&A processes, etc.
• Open Innovation R&D laboratories;
• Leadership in the company’s extensive restructuring process;

Founding Partner – VENTINNO Capital (Brazil 2009 – currently)
Investment holding company and participation in business, mentoring and consulting,
such as:
• Prepark: technology company for technology mobility and management of parking lots;
• Pay Via Fone: joint venture with Pay By Phone, the world’s largest company to electronic parking payment platform;
• Joint venture with US Specialty Minerals Inc in PCC project (Precipitated Calcium Carbonate) with Klabin;
• Be Green: largest urban farms company in Latin America
• Aroma Selezione: beverage production company;

CEO & Founder – AGRION Agrisolutions (Brazil / USA 2020 – currently)
• Agrion Agrisolutions: company that develops sustainable agriculture projects for large waste generators and fertilizer consumers.

Flávio França Jr.

Head of Grain Area, DATAGRO

Giovana Cavalca

Grain Market Analyst, DATAGRO

Glauber Silveira

Executive Director, ABRAMILHO

Agronomist, journalist, rural producer in MT, with a specialization in cattle confinement and seed production from ESALQ, MBA in Business and Cooperative Management from Fundação Getúlio Vargas and Specialist in Occupational Safety Engineering from UCAM, Postgraduate in Digital Journalism. He was president of AprosojaMT (Association of Soybean and Corn Producers of MT) and the Brazilian Association of Soybean Producers (APROSOJA BRASIL) for two terms and is currently a board member of both organizations. Member of Fiesp’s Higher Agribusiness Council and ABMRA (Brazilian Rural Marketing and Agribusiness Association). Current President of the Soy Sector Chamber, Executive Director of Abramilho (Brazilian Corn Association) and President of AREFLORESTA (Association of Reforesters of MT), President of the Rural Union of Campos de Júlio -MT, Presenter and commentator for Canal Rural.

José Mário Schreiner

President, FAEG

João Otávio de Assis Figueiredo

Head of Livestock, DATAGRO

Marcelo Escorel

Commercial Director for Cotton, Bunge

Marussa Boldrin

Deputada Federal, Câmara dos Deputados

Pedro Leonardo Rezende

Secretary of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply of Goiás

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).

Rafael Mingoti

Research Group Supervisor, Embrapa Territorial

Ricardo Luiz Tortorella

Executive Director, ANDA

Rodrigo Santiago

Director, Santiago Cotton and Board member of the BBM

Ronaldo Troncha

Executive President, ABRASEM

Sérgio Armando Benevides Filho

Director, Valença Têxtil

Sérgio Pellizzer

CEO, Holding Conforto

Thomé Luiz Guth

Operational Logistics Superintendent, Conab

Agronomist Engineer, graduated from the University of Brasília – UNB in 1997, with an MBA in Agribusiness Management with an Emphasis on Risk Management from the Federal University of Lavras – UFLA/MG (2009/2010) and a specialization in Agricultural Policy Management from the National School of Public Administration – ENAP (2020). He is currently completing a Master’s degree in Agribusiness with a research focus on Logistics and Operations Research at the University of Brasília. He has worked with crop production and plant protection at the Agriculture Department of the Federal District, as a technical manager and irrigation designer at agricultural dealerships, and at multinational companies such as Dow AgroSciences, Monsanto do Brasil, and Compo do Brasil. He has been a career employee at the National Supply Company (Conab) since 2008, initially serving as a crop analyst and later as a market analyst. He has been a corn market analyst since 2009 and has also served as the Manager of the Agricultural Products Division, responsible for monitoring markets and proposing public policies for corn, soybeans, wheat, cassava, and meats. Since August 2020, he has been the Superintendent of Operational Logistics at Conab, focusing on the planning and operation of logistics activities as well as producing logistics information for the agribusiness sector.

Zé Vitor

Federal Deputy, President of the Parliamentary Front of Ethanol, Chamber of Deputies

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