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.

Alex Eiti Shiota

Executive Manager, Unidade Usina Vertente

Arlindo Aprobatto

Partner, DATAGRO Alta Performance

Bruno Wanderley Freitas

Content Leader, 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.

Carlos Murilo Barros de Mello

Head of Sugar in the Americas, Hedgepoint Global Markets

Carlos Murilo Barros de Mello has a degree in economics from UFRJ and an MBA in international strategy from USP. He has more than 30 years’ global experience in the agricultural commodities sector, notably in the sugar-energy sector, having held management positions in some of the sector’s main players, both in mills and in trading, risk management and distribution. He is currently Head of Sugar in the Americas for Hedgepoint, promoting risk management solutions for commodity prices and currencies.

Carolina Troster de Hollanda

Partner, DATAGRO Financial

Carolina Troster is a partner at DATAGRO Financial. She has over 20 years of experience in the financial market and has worked at institutions such as Banco ABC Brasil and Citi. Outside of Brazil, she was Director of Wealth Management at UBS Bank in Geneva, Switzerland, and Vice-Director of the structured operations distribution area at Cargill in Singapore.

Caroline Perestrelo

Sr Head Agro Corporate, Santander Brasil

Célio Freguglia

Senior Industrial Consultant, DATAGRO

• Over 30 years’ experience in companies in the sugar-energy sector, in the areas of industrial supervision and auditing of processes, operations, laboratories and quality.
• Worked in large groups in the sugar-energy sector, such as: Cosan and Raízen, São Martinho, Pedro Ometto S.A, Coutinho Nogueira (Ester).
• Business Management-MBA (FGV).
• Sugar and Alcohol Management and Technology (USP).
• Food Science and Technology (UNIMEP). – Chemical Technology in Sugar and Alcohol Production (UNIMEP).
• Worked as an Industrial Consultant for Bosch Engenharia Ltda and JBR Soluções Industriais, working in the areas of HAZOP, project coordination, R&D and quality management.
• He has been working as a Senior Industrial Consultant at DATAGRO Alta Performance since December 2023.

César Barros

President, CTC

He is the president of the CTC – Sugarcane Technology Center, since July/2023. He has built his career in agribusiness over 20 years. He previously served as Vice President of Commercial Operations LATAM at Nutrien Soluções Agrícolas, and has also held executive positions in large companies such as Bayer, Monsanto and Agrichem.

Cláudia Maria Lico Habib

Prosecutor and Executive Secretary, Grupo de Atuação Especial de Defesa do Meio Ambiente (GAEMA)

Cristiano Azeredo

Industrial Director, Atvos

Daniel Sofer

Owner, DSA

Daniel Sofer is a mechanical engineer (specializing in internal combustion engines) from the Politecnico di Torino (Italy), founder and Engineering Director of the company DSA, dedicated to the creation and manufacture of innovative fuel injectors and combustion management systems for alternative fuels with totally revolutionary concepts. Over almost three decades of Research, Development and Applied Engineering, technologies and systems have been created for engines ranging from Formula One engines to large-scale thermoelectric plants. For years, dedication has been focused on the use of alternative and renewable fuels in engines originally operating on the Diesel cycle, effectively creating a new way of managing combustion: neither Otto cycle nor Diesel cycle. In this new frontier of combustion management, ethanol is emerging as a fuel of particular applicability, starting with the sugar-energy sector itself.

Danilo Brunelli Cabrini

Corporate Electrical, Instrumentation and Automation Manager, BP Bioenergy

I have been an electrical engineer for over 20 years and am currently the Corporate Manager for Electrical, Instrumentation and Automation at BP Bioenergy. With a background in large companies in the bioenergy, mining, food and construction sectors, I have expertise in managing and developing multidisciplinary projects, team development and strategic planning.

Throughout my career, I have led innovative initiatives for industrial automation, cybersecurity in control systems, process optimization and the implementation of Industry 4.0 technologies. I would highlight the preparation of the Automation Master Plan, implementation of engineering standards and management of corporate CAPEX.

With a strong focus on operational safety and technological innovation, I have worked on the modernization of industrial units, ensuring efficiency, cost reduction and increased production.

Dário W Sodré

Director, D2G Consultoria Empresarial

Eduardo Benedetti

Agricultural Maintenance Manager S.A., São Martinho

Eduardo Calichman

Partner, DATAGRO Alta Performance

Esther Unzueta Dominguez

Head of Sustainable Finance, Santander

Evandro Gussi

President, UNICA

Evandro Gussi is the President and CEO of the União da Indústria de Cana-de-Açúcar e Bioenergia (Unica), an organization dedicated to providing clean, renewable, and natural energy in the form of sugar, biofuels, bioelectricity, and biomass.

Before taking on the leadership of UNICA, Evandro Gussi served as the Comptroller-General of the Chamber of Deputies. Elected to Congress in 2014 (term from 2015-2019), he served as the leader of his party between 2016 and 2017.

Gussi was the author of the “RENOVABIO” Law, a key piece of legislation aimed at increasing the use of biofuels in Brazil, contributing to the country’s achievement of its greenhouse gas reduction targets and its commitments under the Paris Agreement.

Evandro Gussi holds a Ph.D. in Law from the Faculty of Law at the University of São Paulo (2009) and a Master’s in Law from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (2005).

Felipe Dias

Global Sugar Cane Production System Manager, John Deere

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 Mariano

Vice President of Trading, Inpasa Brasil

Gustavo Rattes

President, Orplana

Gustavo Rattes de Castro is a businessman and rural producer (beef cattle, sugar and ethanol and grains), Chairman of the Board of ORPLANA (Organization of Sugarcane Producers’ Associations of Brazil), Fiscal and Advisory Board Member of APMP BIOENERGIA (Association of Producers of Raw Materials for the Bioenergy Industries of Goiás), Board Member of CONSECANA (Council of Sugarcane, Sugar and Ethanol Producers of the State of São Paulo).

He has a degree in Zootechnics and a postgraduate degree in Human Resources Management.

Henrique Penna

Commercial Director, Jalles

Hermann Hoffmann

Full Professor, UFSCar and General Coordinator, RIDESA

Agronomist, ESALQ/USP, 1975
Masters and Doctorate, ESALQ/USP
Full Professor, UFSCar
Coordinator of the Sugarcane Genetic Improvement Program at UFSCar
General Coordinator of RIDESA

Hugo Cagno Filho

President, UDOP

Ivan Melo Filho

Commercial Director, Bevap Bioenergia

Jacyr Costa Filho

President, COSAG-FIESP

Jaime Finguerut

Director and Board Member, ITC

Jaime Finguerut, a chemical engineer with a postgraduate degree in Bioprocesses, has been working with sugarcane processing since 1979, much of his career at the Copersucar Technology Center and C T Canavieira, where he led the innovation and optimization of industrial processes. Since 2017 he has led the ITC – Instituto de Tecnologia Canavieira, where he leads the MM.IA project, based on online NIR sensors and AI, for Advanced Control and increased Industrial Efficiency.

José Geraldo Darcie

Director, Fundamento Consultoria Industrial

A chemical engineer and administrator with forty-five years’ experience, partly as a direct collaborator in large companies and partly as an entrepreneur.

He is currently the director of two companies:

Fundamento Consultoria e Engenharia – A company that draws up industrial engineering projects in various disciplines, as well as process safety studies, reports and installation drawings related to NR.10, 12 and 13.

DoQR Tcnologia – Develops and implements information management software applications, involving the digitization of collection and action and communication plans and the digital presentation of online management dashboards. It has modules for work safety, third-party management and change management, among others. It also has a stand-alone application for the digital election of CIPA.

José Roberto Oliveira

Director of Applications in Process Safety and HAZOP Innovation

José Roberto de Oliveira, known as “Zé do Hazop”, is a renowned expert in process safety, with over 40 years’ experience in the sugar-energy sector and 12 years in Hazop. Founder and CEO of Eysen, José leads Dynamic Hazop and LOPA analyses, applying predictive simulations for safety and efficiency. With a degree in Sugar and Alcohol Production Technology and specializations in Saccharotechnics, Ethanol Fermentation, Basic Sanitation and Polymeric Materials, he is a reference in methodologies for identifying risks and aligning P&IDs with operational reality.

Lucas Bove

State Deputy, Legislative Assembly of the State of São Paulo

Lucas Teixeira da Silveira

Industrial Manager, Adecoagro

Graduated in Mechanical Engineering from the Federal University of Itajubá. MBA in Business Management from FGV. Married, father of one son. Has worked in the sector for 20 years. I’ve been working at Adecoagro’s Angélica unit for 18 years. I took part in setting up the unit, later I was in charge of the Broth Extraction and Utilities sectors, and since 2019 I’ve been the unit’s Industrial Manager.

Luciano Cardoso

Superintendent, Marsh Brasil

With 28 years of experience in the insurance market, Luciano has extensive experience in analyzing and developing industrial risk management programs, with a specialty in the sugar-energy sector.

An insurance broker licensed by SUSEP, he has a degree in business administration, a post-graduate degree in Marketing from FGV and has also completed a leadership development plan at the Dom Cabral Foundation.

Luiz Gustavo Junqueira

Commercial Director, Usina Alta Mogiana

Luiz Gustavo Wiechoreki

General Coordinator of Sugarcane and Agroenergy, MAPA

Márcia Mutton

University Professor, FCAV/UNESP

Marco Alasmar

Technical Director, RAM Automação e Controle and Director of Sugar, Ethanol and Bioenergy, ISA.

Marcos Landell

Director and Scientific Researcher, IAC

Mário Campos Filho

Executive President, Siamig e Bioenergia Brasil

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.

Mônika Bergamaschi

President of the Board and Vice-President, ABAG-RP

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.

Paulo Trucco

Commercial Director, FS Fueling Sustainability

Piero Acco

CEO, Air & Parts

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 Carnietto Bassetto

Industrial Manager, Usina São Manoel

Renata Camargo

Sustainability Manager, UNICA

Renata Camargo has a law degree from the University of São Paulo Law School and a master’s degree in Management and Public Policy from the Getúlio Vargas Foundation. Since 2009, she has been a legal advisor to UNICA, an organization that acts in the institutional relationship of the sugar-energy sector.

Renata Isfer

Executive President, ABiogás

Renata Isfer is Executive President of the Brazilian Biogas Association. She was Secretary and Deputy Secretary for Oil, Natural Gas and Biofuels at the Ministry of Mines and Energy from 2019 to 2020. She co-coordinated the negotiation of the revision of the onerous assignment contract and the holding of the surplus auction. She was the Ministry’s Legal Advisor for 3 years and actively participated in the creation of public policies that enabled the recovery of the gas, oil, electricity and mining sectors. She has 16 years’ experience as a Federal Prosecutor in the Federal Attorney General’s Office. She holds a master’s degree in Law, Public Policy and Economic Development, and participated in an extension course at the Harvard Kennedy School on women’s leadership. Co-creator of the “Yes, they exist” project, which aims to promote gender equality in leadership positions, and of EmpodereC, a mentoring program for young women in the energy sector. Mother of Catarina and Tomás.

Renato Pretti

President Director, CerradinhoBio

Rodrigo Ostanello

Americas Head of Sugar, ED&F Man Sugar Ltd.

I started my career in the trading market in 2006 – one of the first employees of the then Bauche Energy, I followed the company’s implementation and growth over the years, dedicated specifically to the bagged sugar market. Leaving the position of Statutory Director of Bauche, I joined Sucden do Brasil in 2011, accessing the bulk sugar market as responsible for product origination in Brazil. In 2015 I accepted the invitation from ED&F MAN to join the team in London – the international challenge was decisive at that time. After completing 1 year living in London, the company invited me to return to Brazil and take over the trading division as Country Manager of Brazil, where I stayed until 2021 when EDF MAN proposed the challenge of coordinating sugar operations in the Americas, including operations in Brazil, Central America and the United States.

Ronaldo Petri

Senior Consultant,, DATAGRO

Rosana Amadeu Silva

President, CEISE

COMING SOON.

Rubens de Carvalho “Rubikinho”

Coordinator of the Agro Project against Cancer, Hospital de Amor

Thiago Abreu

CEO and Founding Partner, Valloura Agro Inovação

Ulysses Carvalho

Senior Trader, Sucden

Ulysses Britto de Carvalho, born in Catanduva in the interior of São Paulo, studied in Brasilia and graduated in International Relations from the University of Brasilia/UnB. During this time, he worked in the public sector – the Public Relations Secretary of the Federal Senate and the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism, having served on Mercosur’s Working Subgroup No. 7 – “Industry” (SGT-7). He also has a postgraduate degree in International Marketing and an MBA in Business Administration from the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV).
He began his career in the private sector in São Paulo in the early 2000s, working in international logistics. Between 2003 and 2006, he taught Marketing and International Negotiation on the International Relations course at the Ibero-American University Center (UNIBERO).
In 2006, in the midst of the boom in the national sugar industry, he began his career in the sugar-energy sector when he was hired by Açúcar Guarani to lead the Export Sales area. Between 2015 and 2020, he dedicated himself to the management of Tereos Commodities, the trading arm of the Tereos group, being responsible for the origination of third-party sugar in the Center South and Northeast.
At the end of 2020, he began his career at Sucden do Brasil, focusing on raw sugar origination and trading.
Between 2010 and 2014, he was a member of The Refined Sugar Association (RSA) panel of arbitrators in London.

Valmir Barbosa

Partner, DATAGRO High Performance

Zé Vitor

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

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