Adriano Calsoni

Industrial Manager, COCAL

Airton Ignácio da Silva

Industrial Consultant, DATAGRO

Alberto Gomes

Agronomist Engineer, DATAGRO Alta Performance

Agronomist – Moura Lacerda University Center – Ribeirão Preto, SP

Working at DATAGRO since 2014 on national and international projects

Technical responsible for the agricultural part of the Crop Survey project and agricultural partnerships in more than 58 production units in the Center-South of Brazil, producing daily reports on the situation of sugarcane plantations in the Center-South.

Experience in consulting and agricultural management at CTT, implementing a high-yield harvesting system of approximately 40 mm tons in the last 4 years.

Participation in various national and international agro-industrial due diligences.

Alexandre Calegari

Industrial Executive Manager, UISA

Alfredo Vila

President, UNALA

Álvaro Sanguino

Director and Owner, Álvaro Sanguino Assessoria, Planejamento e Consultoria (ASAS)

Ana Balan

Director of Operations, Atvos

André Gustavo Alves da Silva

Commercial and New Products Director, Cocal

André Lins Albuquerque

CEO, Pentagro

As a Co-founder and CEO of Pentagro, André Lins is a prominent figure in Agroindustry, leading the forefront of Industry 4.0. His journey is marked by a passion for innovation and technological solutions that drive digital transformation in the sector. With a solid academic background, André holds a Bachelor’s, Master’s, and PhD in Engineering from USP-EESC. His experience and leadership at Pentagro have contributed to the company’s success, making it a leader in implementing Industry 4.0 in Agroindustry. In addition to his role as CEO of Pentagro, André is recognized as an expert in areas such as Digital Twin, Management 4.0, Advanced Process Control, and Intelligent Systems, establishing himself as a reference through publications, lectures, and innovative projects.

Arlindo Aprobatto

Senior Agricultural Consultant and Specialist, DATAGRO

Arnaldo Jardim

Federal Deputy and Vice President of Frente Parlamentar da Agropecuária (FPA) Chamber of Deputies

Bruno Wanderley Freitas

Senior Economist, DATAGRO

Senior Economist at DATAGRO, where he has been working since 2006. As an associate at DATAGRO, he leads the company’s office in Recife-PE, managing a team responsible for report production and database maintenance and analysis. He holds a degree in Economics from UFPE, with a master’s degree in Finance from the same university.

Caroline Perestrelo

Senior Leader of Agro Corporate Network, Santander

Claudia Calero

President, Asocaña

Danilo Veras

Vice President of Public and Regulatory Policy for Latin America, A.P. Moller-Maersk

Don Gordon

President, Sugar Connections Inc.

Eduardo Calichman

Senior Industrial Consultant and Specialist, DATAGRO

Eduardo Polati

Partner, E-Oxy Tecnologia

Felipe Dias

Global Sugar Cane Production System Manager, John Deere

Flavio Castellari

Specialist in Access to International Markets

Flávio Haruo Mathuiy

Commander, Assessor da Comissão Coordenadora para os Assuntos da Organização Marítima Internacional (IMO), Ministério da Marinha

Flávio Ribeiro

Managing Director, Usina Água Bonita

Guilherme Nolasco

Executive President, UNEM

Rural producer, veterinarian with a long career in Agribusiness, Guilherme Linares Nolasco is executive president of the National Union of Corn Ethanol (UNEM). He has extensive experience as an executive and manager in the agricultural sector. He chaired the Mato Grosso Institute of Meat and the Institute of Agricultural Defense of Mato Grosso. He is currently Coordinator of the Bioenergy Commission of the Instituto Pensar Agro (IPA/ FPA), participates in the Productive Chambers of Sugar and Alcohol and Corn and Sorghum in the MAPA, is a founding member of the PCI Institute (Produce, Conserve and Include) and representative of the Corn Ethanol sector at the Ethanol Supply Monitoring Table coordinated by the Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME).

Gustavo Herrmann

Commercial Director, Koppert

Gustavo Segantini

VP/Director of Sales, Marketing, Logistics and IT, Tereos

Dr. Heitor Cantarella

Scientific researcher, Instituto Agronômico de Campinas (IAC)

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Helton Oliveira

Industrial and Engineering Director, Usina Santa Adélia

Hugo Cagno

President, UDOP

Ivan Melo Filho

Commercial Director, Bevap Bioenergia

João Irineu Medeiros

Vice President of Regulatory Affairs, Stellantis Latin America

Graduated in Mechanical Engineering from UFMG, postgraduate in Structural Engineering from UFMG and in Economic Engineering from Fundação Dom Cabral, with an MBA in Business Management from Fundação Dom Cabral and post-MBA from Kellogg School of Management Chicago, Northwestern University, USA. He joined the company in 1987, working in product development, powertrain and chassis in Latin America, and at the Tech Centre in the USA.

João Testa

Product Marketing Manager, CNH Industrial

Jorge Gomes

Agricultural Director, Adecoagro

José Guilherme Nogueira

CEO, ORPLANA

Leila Dinardo

Researcher, Instituto Agronômico de Campinas (IAC)

Letícia Jacintho

President, De Olho no Material Escolar

Livia Kosaka

Strategic Consulting Partner, DATAGRO

Professional with extensive experience in project management in Brazil and abroad. She is a partner at DATAGRO Strategic Consulting, where she leads consulting projects focused on Strategic Planning, Market Intelligence and Production Costs. Before joining DATAGRO, she served as Senior Analyst at Toyota Motor North America, in New York and Miami, in the Strategic Research Division for Renewable Fuels for the Americas, as a member of Toyota’s Global Energy and Environment Team; as Director at Hart Energy Consulting in Houston, in the Renewable Fuels Division for Latin America; and as Partner at Honsha do Brasil, managing Lean/Toyota Management projects in Agribusiness. She holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration with an emphasis on International Business from Rutgers University, USA.

Luiz Gustavo Wiechoreki

General Coordinator of Sugarcane and Agroenergy, MAPA

Luiz Miguel Paiz

General Manager, Asazgua

Márcia Mutton

University Professor, FCAV/UNESP

Márcio Venturelli

Technology Consultant, Instituto SENAI de Tecnologia (IST)

Mariele de Souza Penteado

Agronomic Quality Manager, Usina Alta Mogiana

Mário Campos Filho

Executive President, Bioenergia Brasil and Siamig Bioenergia

Mário Ferreira Campos Filho is 39 years old. He is an economist graduaded from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), with an MBA in Finance from IBMEC and Government Relations from FGV Brasília.

He has been active in the sector since 2003. Currently, he is the executive president of the Sugar-Ethanol Industries Association of Minas Gerais – SIAMIG – and the Unions of the Sugar and Alcohol Industry in the State of Minas Gerais.

In 2021, he assumed the role of Chairman of the Sugar and Alcohol Sector Chamber of the Ministry of Agriculture and Bioenergia Brasil.

He is also the president of the Environmental and Sustainable Development Council of the Federation of Industries of Minas Gerais.

Mário Sérgio Salani

Senior Corporate Agricultural Mechanization Manager, BP Bioenergy

Agronomist by Centro Universitário Moura Lacerda – Ribeirão Preto, with specializations in agricultural mechanization management by ESALQ and people management by FGV, Mario also has postgraduate degree in team leadership and mentoring by PUC-RS.

He started his career in 2009, accumulating experience in the management of CTT processes, crop training, fire brigade and other mechanized processes.

Since 2014 works with high performance concepts in agricultural mechanization, leveraging the indicators of safety, quality and yield of mechanized activities.

In his professional career, he served as coordinator, specialist and technical consultant in companies such as Grupo Moreno, Usina Caçu, SJC Bioenergia and Bunge Brasil.

Marlon Arraes

Director of the Department of Biofuels, Ministry of Mines and Energy

Murilo Daré

Corporate Maintenance Manager, Zilor

Otávio Tufi

Agricultural Technical Director and Auditor, BENRI

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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.

Patrick Chatenay

General Director, PROSUNERGY LIMITED

Paulo Bruno Craveiro

Senior Analyst, DATAGRO

An economist at DATAGRO, he works in the areas of Market Intelligence and Production Costs. He coordinates the DATAGRO Cost Lighthouse Project, focusing on cost analysis and projections, benchmarking, and monitoring the global sugar and biofuel market. He has over 14 years of experience and holds a degree in Economics from the Federal University of Pernambuco.

Paulo Leal

President, Feplana

Graduated in Civil Engineering in 1975, owner of the “Paulo Sérgio de Marco Leal” Engineering Office

CEO of Cooperativa Regional Agrícola Mista de Cambará Ltda – COOPRAMIL from 1996 to 2016.

President of the Federation of Sugarcane Planters of Brazil – FEPLANA – 1st period 03/2010 to 03/2016 and 2nd period since 2021.

Vice President of the Cambará- Paraná Rural Union since 06/2014.

Provider of the Beneficent Association Casa de Misericórdia de Cambará since 2008.

Pedro Robério de Melo Nogueira

President, Sindaçúcar-AL

Positions Held:

Director of PR Consultoria e Assessoria (a Planning, Consulting, and Business Advisory firm, particularly in the sugar and alcohol agroindustry sector)

President of the Sugar and Alcohol Industry Union of the State of Alagoas

Full Member of the Sectorial Chamber of the Sugar and Alcohol Production Chain at the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, and Supply

Member of the Technical Committee of CIMA – Interministerial Council of Sugar and Alcohol

Director of the Sugar and Alcohol Affairs Department at the Secretariat for Regional Development of the Presidency of the Republic

Full Member of the Commission that reexamined the role of alcohol in the National Energy Matrix in 1990

Member of the Brazilian Delegation to the Sugar/Alcohol Commission of MERCOSUR – Montevideo – January to August 1993

Full Member of the Commission that reexamined the role of alcohol in the National Energy Matrix – MME – 1990/1993

Executive in companies in the sugar and alcohol sector

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).

Renan Lopes

Founder and CEO, Aventra Energy

Renato Romio

Engine and Vehicle Division Manager, Instituto Mauá de Tecnologia

Ricardo Ionta

Corporate Industrial Director, Raízen

Ricardo Silva

Mayor, Ribeirão Preto City Hall

Roberto Furian Ardenghy

President and CEO, IBP

Roberto Klen

New Construction Sales Manager, Wartsila

Ronaldo Petri

Senior Industrial Consultant and Specialist, DATAGRO

Rosana Amadeu Silva

President, CEISE

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Rubens de Carvalho “Rubikinho”

Coordinator of the Agro Project against Cancer, Hospital de Amor

Tiago Rafael Pignata

Senior Management Consultant, DATAGRO Alta Performance

Thiago Arruda

Vice-President, European Energy

Thiago Callegari L. Duarte

Head Equity Research, BTG Pactual

Thiago Duarte is a partner and senior equity research analyst at BTG Pactual. He covers Latin American companies in the Agribusiness and Food & Beverage sectors. His team has been awarded as the number one research team in Latin America and Brazil in Agribusiness and Food & Beverage for eight consecutive years (2017-2024) by the Institutional Investor ranking. Thiago Duarte joined BTG Pactual in 2009 after working as a securities analyst at Schroder Investment Management. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of São Paulo.

Valmir Barbosa

Partner, DATAGRO High Performance

Vinícius Lopes

Sugarcane Commercial Manager, Koppert

Zé Vitor

Federal Deputy, President, FPE

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