Speakers

Brian Grunenfelder

Trade Advisor, American Sugar Alliance

Coming soon

Dina Salem

B2B Sales Manager, Savola Group

EDUCATION

• D Project Management-Cairo University of Egypt- Undergraduate.
• MBA Agri Export Logistics (Supply Chain) – Arab Academy for Science Technology & Maritime Transport (AASTMT) 2019.
• Bachelor of Arts: Cairo University 2003
• High School: Orman Language School – 1999

EXPERIENCE

Savola Group – Dec.17^th 2015 -till present:

B2B Sales Manager: Sugar Commodity, United Sugar and Alexandria Sugar Companies of Egypt:

• Managing local sales volume of almost 350Kmt turnover around LE 2.5 billion.
• Expanding and building sustainable relations with producers.
• Managing the long term and day-to-day sales and operations of committed and spot agreements to ensure that work processes are implemented as designed and comply within market insights and company`s policies and procedures.
• Strategic partnership and advisor for customers to secure production need and business sustainability.
• Secure services parameters to algin with supply chain efficiency and goal objectives.
• Manage credit agreements to ensure level of credit exposure aligned with company budget.

Food Export Council – Ministry of Trade and Industry (FEC) 2005 – Dec. 16^th , 2014:

Bussiens Development and Public Relations Manager 2007-2011:  

• Responsible of developing programs that meet the organization objectives through conducting effective activities, organizing, and developing events that increasing Egyptian food industries export goals.
• Ensuring that, within the limits of available resources, exporters need, and requests are fully, promptly, and efficiently satisfied.
• In charge of Egyptian export strategy by supporting the exporters / producers to increase the export volume through the Egyptian participation in international exhibitions and trade missions.
• Supporting SME`s to find the right route and process to develop their products by the international cooperation support.

SOCIAL CONTBUTION:

President of Rotary Club Garden City 2021-2022

Rotary is an international service organization whose stated purpose is to bring professionals and elite society supporters to provide humanitarian service and to advance goodwill and peace around the world. It is a non-political and non-religious organization open to serve communities

DIPLOMAS and CERTIFICATES:

1. AUC HR Management Diploma May 2008,
2. Accelerate Talent Management Program Sep 2017 end Dec 2018.

3. Dale Carnegie Effective Communication & Human Relations August 2015

4. Huthwaite SPIN Selling Skills, September 2015.

5. Huthwaite Negotiation Skills, November 2015.

6. Export Management and Negotiation Skills ATC April 2014.

7. Managerial Technical Training Seminars on Foreign Trade Diploma May 2014.

8. Halal Standard Malaysia July 2013.

9. UNIDO Raise Your Export October 2012.

10. Completion Successful Participation in International Trade Fairs, Sept 2006 & Oct2012.

11. Supply Chain Training Program, April 2008.

EXHIBATIONS & MISSIONS: Managed the Egyptian participation in the following:

1. Dubai Sugar Conference2016, to 2020
2. Gulfood Dubai, February 2009, to 2020.
3. Anuga International Trade Fair, Germany /Cologne, October 2009, 2011 and 2013.
4. SIAL International Trade Fair, Paris, October 2012 & 2014.
5. Halal Malaysia/ Certificate Study Tour July 2012 & 2013.
6. Foodex Japan Exhibition, March 2008 & 2010.
7. ACE, Xiamen/China Exhibition, September 2008.
8. Cibus Italy Exhibition, May 2008.
9. IFE London Exhibition, March 2007.

Personality:

• Experience background in developing and managing system, coupled with my extensive capability of dealing with people of all socio-economic categories enables me to acquire in-depth understanding of managers and organizations behavior, comprehend their needs and devise innovative plans that cater to their demands and target.

• Strong prospecting skills and new business setup, and goal oriented.
• Excellent negotiation and communication skills, high skills to change work stress atmosphere to handle hard and critical situation in a smooth and intelligent ways.

Fred Zeller

CEO, VSZ

Fred Zeller is CEO of the German cooperative SZVG, Suedzucker’s majority shareholder, since 1995 and managing director of the beet growers association VSZ since 2010. He holds a degree in agricultural economics of the Technical University Munich, where he remained for two years after his studies as a postgraduate researcher at the Institute for Agricultural Policy. After having finished his doctoral thesis, a macro economical analysis of trade flows on the world sugar market, Fred worked five years as an export and sales manager for Suedzucker before he took his actual position.

Guilherme Nastari

Director, DATAGRO

Hermelindo Ruete de Oliveira

Partner, DATAGRO Financial

Humberto Jasso

Executive President, Mexican Sugar Chamber

Humberto Jasso is Executive President of the Mexican Sugar Chamber, which represents the sugar mill companies that transform cane into sugar in Mexico before the Government, cane growers, labor unions, abroad, and in the defense of sugar as a healthy ingredient.

Since February 2021 he also holds the position of Vice President for International Trade in Mexico´s umbrella National Agricultural Council (CNA), which represents the Mexican private sector in Agribusiness.

Before joining the Sugar Chamber in 2011, Humberto Jasso worked for 22 years in the Trade Ministry of Mexico, and participated in the original negotiation of the NAFTA, as well as in the negotiation of many international trade Agreements signed by Mexico with the European Union, Japan and many Latin American countries.

Humberto Jasso lives in Mexico City with his wife and two sons. He has a BA Degree in Economics from Yale College and a Masters Degree in Economic Development from Cambridge University.

Ivan Melo

Partner, DATAGRO Financial

Jack Roney

Director of Economics and Policy Analysis, American Sugar Alliance

The American Sugar Alliance is the national coalition of growers, processors, and refiners of sugarbeets and sugarcane.  Roney has been with ASA since 1996 and represents ASA on matters of domestic and trade policy.  He has testified at numerous Congressional and Executive Branch hearings, spoken at many international conferences, and appeared frequently on television and radio programs on behalf of American sugar producers. He has served as chairman of the Agricultural Technical Advisory Committee for Trade in Sweeteners and Sweetener Products, a private sector trade policy advisory group formed by the U.S. government, and as president of the Sugar Club, an international industry group based in New York City. His 46-year career in agricultural policy has spanned nine Farm Bills.

Prior to joining the ASA, Roney served for seven years as Washington representative for the Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association and for 15 years with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, including stints with USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service, Economic Research Service, and World Agricultural Outlook Board. Earlier, he taught mathematics at Father Judge High School in Philadelphia.

Roney holds bachelor’s degrees in political science and German from Fordham University, where he co-captained the varsity swimming and water polo teams. His undergraduate studies included a year at the University of Cologne, Germany. Roney has earned two master’s degrees: in public affairs journalism from American University, and in international public policy from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies. A native of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Roney resides in Vienna, Virginia, with his wife, Deborah; they have two grown children, Kyle and Alison.

José Orive

Executive Director, International Sugar Organization - ISO

José Orive is currently the Executive Director of the International Sugar Organization, a post he assumed in January 2014.

Previously Mr Orive was the Executive Director of the Central American Sugar Association (AICA) for 19 years, where he was responsible for negotiations for the the private sugar industry, with emphasis on coordination of    joint actions on priority issues, clearinghouse for information relevant to the sector, publications, participation in international forae.

Since 2010 he also was a partner in ARTLEX law firm in charge of large corporate clients, distribution contracts and environmental issues and arbitration.  He has also held senior posts in other law firms in Guatemala.

Soon after graduating from Georgetown University Law Centre in Washington in 1985 Mr Orive took up the post of Minister Counselor for Economic & Commercial Affairs, Embassy of   Guatemala, Washington, D.C.

Mr Orive is married with two sons.

Julio César Arroyo

Executive Director, Asociación Azucarera de El Salvador

Education.

• Master in Agribusiness Administration, Purdue University.
• Agricultural Engineer, Zamorano.

Professional Experience.

• Executive Director, Asociación Azucarera de El Salvador, association of the Salvadorean sugar mills, since

• Board member of CONSAA, Consejo de la Industria Azucarera de El Salvador; and ASI, Asociación Salvadoreña de Industriales.

• Monsanto Company in United States, Nicaragua and El Salvador, 1996 – 2001.

• Former board member of Defensoría del Consumidor de El Salvador; CAMAGRO, Cámara Agropecuaria e Industrial de El Salvador; and APA, Asociación de Proveedores Agrícolas de El Salvador.

Personal.

• Married, two children, 19 and 15 years old.

Mario Roberto Opice Leão

Executive Vice President Corporate, Santander Brazil

Mario Roberto Opice Leão is the Executive Vice President responsible for Santander Brazil’s Corporate Banking segment, responsible for medium and large local and multinational companies. Before that, Mr. Leão served for
almost 2 years as the Executive Director responsible for the Corporate and Investment Banking group, within Global Corporate Banking.
Mr. Leão started his career in 1996 at Citigroup Brazil, where he spent 5 years in the Financial Control department and later another 5 years in the Global Markets division. From 2006 to 2008 he ran Goldman Sachs Brazil’s Fixed
Income sales division, and, from 2008 to 2015, he ran Morgan Stanley Brazil’s Global Capital Markets, Derivatives and Financing division.
Mr. Leão holds a bachelor degree in Industrial Engineering from São Paulo University’s Escola Politécnica.

Mohammed Fikrat

Chairman and CEO, COSUMAR Group

Chairman & CEO, COSUMAR

Born : 1958

Married, 3 children

Education :

Ecole Centrale de Paris (1981), MBA IE Business School Madrid (2006).

 Experience & Achievements

• Chairman & CEO of COSUMAR Group since 2004

• Chairman of the Moroccan sugar industry federation (FIMASUCRE)

• Chairman of the Professional Sugar Association (APS)

• Various managerial positions in OCP until 2004

 Current  mandates (outside Cosumar)

• Member of the Economic, Social & Environment Board (CESE)

• Vice Chairman of the Moroccan Export Association (ASMEX)

• Vice Chairman of CGEM regional economic development committee

– Member of the “Commission spéciale sur le modèle de développement”

Mulhim Eltayeb

Chairman and CEO, KEPM.

Mr. Eltayeb has more than 32 years of experience in strategic and operational management,
project initialization, assessment and delivery worldwide. In 2001, he joined Kenana
Engineering and Technical Services company in Sudan, leading the company in various
aspects. For 10 years, 2007 – 2017, he was the General Manager of the company expanding
its business in many countries in East and West Africa in engineering and project delivery
consulting services in the agribusiness, with focus on sugarcane industry. During his tenure, he
supported various African governments in developing their strategic and long-term plans in
sugar industry in Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, and Mauritania.

During the nineties, he spent six years with CH2M Hill in the USA, executing various projects
in USA, Canada, South America, Russia, and the Far East.

Currently, he runs his own consulting firm KEPM Projects, providing consulting services in the
sugarcane industry for various companies in Africa and the Gulf Area. He is the co-founder of
the Africa Sugar Development Taskforce Initiative and the current Executive Officer.

He is also, the Agribusiness Strategy Advisor for ICCIA which is the Chamber of Commerce,
Industry and Agriculture for 57 countries around the globe.

He is a PMP, with master’s degree from Washington State University, USA in civil and
environmental engineering and a post-graduate degree in Agribusiness.

Peter de Klerk

Senior Economist, ISO - International Sugar Organization

Peter de Klerk joined the International Sugar Organization as Senior Economist in January 2018.

Initial responsibilities included the analysis of molasses, ethanol and alternative sweetener markets, but since March 2020 he is responsible for the ISO’s sugar research.

He arrived from Itochu Europe where he was responsible for sugar market operations – ranging from analysis, logistics, futures and commercial transactions.

Prior to his four years at Itochu, Peter worked at Armajaro, Czarnikow and ED&F Man in the sugar analysis teams.  During a separate tenure with ED&F Man, he worked in Nigeria and Tanzania trading a range of commodities – sugar, ethanol. cocoa and cashew nuts.

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).

Samir Somaiya

Chairman, Godavari Biorefineries

COMING SOON

Sasathorn Sanguandeekul

Executive Market Analyst, Mitrphol Sugar Corp

Work Experience:  8 years in marketing and market research field with expertise in analysis both qualitative and quantitative data; specialized in industrial and commodities product.

First, Sasathorn started her career as merchandizer in local fabric business in Thailand, after 2 master degree graduated. Her focus has moved to research field and join The Nielsen Company (Thailand) Limited, working as customer research focus on B2B client.

Prior 2016, Sasathorn had been worked in Petrochemical industry in Thailand, SCG Chemicals, as Market Analyst. Her role mainly focus on product line roadmap and market sizing for 3 years.

After 2018, she have joined Mitrphol Sugar Corp., Ltd., biggest sugar mill in Thailand and start her role on researching Thai’s Crop , Sugar Trade flow and Futures Trading. Current position, she work as Executive Market Analyst to covered research desk of Mitrphol.

Education:         

Achievements:

2018                     Representative from Mitrphol to present in

TSMC Seminar of preparation for harvesting

2019                     Thailand delegate & Speaker on ASA (ASEAN Sugar Association)

Meeting in Vietnam

Thierry Songeur

Managing Director, Sucden Groupe Sucres & Denrées

After graduating from Rouen Business School in 1983, Thierry Songeur began his career in auditing with Coopers and Lybrand in France and then in banking with Banco Frances & Brasileiro in Brazil.

He joined the Sucden Group in Brazil in 1986 and served in the rice trading division from 1988 until 1992. After a short spell with Gyma International (France), he rejoined Sucden in 1995 at its Paris headquarters covering various sugar markets in Eastern Europe and Africa.

In 1997, Thierry Songeur was appointed President and CEO of Sucden Americas and relocated in Miami / USA. He remained in that position until 2018, contributing to the redevelopment of the Group presence in the Americas. He became member of the Management  Board in 2010.

He was promoted Managing Director of the Sucden Group in January 2019 and moved back to Paris.