André Luiz Perrone

Director, Confinamento Monte Alegre

Anderson Dias

Partner, XP Investimentos

Partner/Head of Institutional Commodities Desk at XP

Economist, graduated from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, has been focused on commodity derivatives in the B3 market and international exchanges since 2006. Accepted the challenge offered by XP in 2013 to set up the brokerage’s commodities desk, which has become the largest agricultural brokerage at B3. Currently, along with his team, he runs XP Investimentos’ institutional commodities desk.

Arnaldo Jardim

Federal Deputy, Chamber of Deputies, Brasilia, Brazil.

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Bento Mineiro

Director of International Relations, ABCZ

Cesário Ramalho

Former President and Coordinator of the Agribusiness Council of the Commercial Association, Sociedade Rural Brasileira

Daniel Barcelos Vargas

Professor, School of Economics at FGV-SP and FGV Law School-RJ

Eduardo Pedroso

Executive Director of Origination, Friboi JBS

Fabiano Tito Rosa

Director of Livestock Procurement - LATAM, Minerva Foods

Fernando Rodrigues

Founder Partner, Rural Ventures

With more than 15 years’ experience in finance and agribusiness, he is the founder and managing partner of Rural Ventures, a venture capital firm dedicated to supporting agtech and foodtech startups. He also hosts the Rural Talks podcast, where he highlights industry innovations aimed at closing the gap between traditional agriculture and technology. He has a degree in Business Administration with an emphasis on Logistics, a postgraduate degree in Economics and an MBA in Exponential Business. He currently acts as an advisor to five agtech companies and, for the last 11 years, was the partner responsible for the agribusiness sector at XP Investimentos.

Dr. Gracie Verde Selva

Executive Sustainability Manager, Minerva Foods

Dr. Verde Selva is an environmental scientist with a PhD in Environmental Public Policy. Having contributed to sustainability agendas in the third sector and academic institutions, she currently works at Minerva Foods as Executive Sustainability Manager, responsible for Renove, a collaborative engagement and action program with rural producers for the implementation of low-carbon livestock farming, generating profitability and sustainability. The program offers rural producers technical support and training, as well as access to green financing and the voluntary carbon market.

Guilherme Jank

Analyst, DATAGRO Markets

Guilherme Nastari

Director, DATAGRO

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Guilherme Piai Filizzola

Secretary of Agriculture and Supply of the State of São Paulo

João Otávio de Assis Figueiredo

Research Leader, DATAGRO Livestock

Luc Vian

Analyst, DATAGRO Livestock

Lucas Bove

State Deputy, Legislative Assembly of the State of São Paulo

Lucas Moller

Analyst, DATAGRO Livestock

Luiz Roberto Zillo

Livestock Director, SRB, Director, GPB, and Consultant, DATAGRO Financial

Marcelo Costa

Broker, Necton

Marielle Brugnari Solzki

Commodities Product Manager, B3

Mário Frioli

Commercial Superintendent, Fazendas Bartira.

Graduated in Agronomic Engineering from the Escola Superior de Agronomia “Luiz de Queiroz” – ESALQ – USP, with over 20 years of professional experience as an executive specialized in marketing strategies, hedge policy, price risk management, and structured operations with derivatives in the commodities market. He was a managing partner at LINK Investimentos – Mesa Commodities. He served on the Advisory Board of BM&F. He was Agricultural Director at Banco UBS Brazil. Currently, he is the Agricultural Superintendent – Commercial at Fazendas Bartira.

Maurício Manduca

Director of Supplier Relations, Marfrig Global Foods

Maurício Tonhá

Director, Estância Bahia Leilões

Entrepreneur and cattle rancher, Maurício Tonhá is the founder of Estância Bahia Leilões. With an innovative mindset, he is a reference in the commercial beef cattle market and a global leader in cattle ranching, recognized for organizing the world’s largest cattle auction—Mega Leilão da Estância Bahia, which sold over 40,000 animals in seven and a half hours. Maurício was also a pioneer in hosting virtual auctions broadcast on TV and through apps. With more than 30 years dedicated to cattle ranching, Tonhá is known for his hard work, boldness, innovation, credibility, and trust—qualities widely recognized in the industry, and which he considers essential. His passion and enthusiasm for work go far beyond his dedication to ranching. As mayor of Água Boa for 8 years, he was elected the best mayor in Mato Grosso for four consecutive years.

His life motto: “Excited and with God.”

Mauricio Velloso

President, Associação Nacional dos Confinadores (Assocon)

Neto Sartor

Director and Partner, Maximus Agronegócio

Paulo Emilio Prado

Director, Agropecuária Grande Lago

Pedro Lupion

Federal Deputy, President of the Parliamentary Front for Agribusiness, Chamber of Deputies

Pietro Sampaio Baruselli

Professor, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia (USP)

Full Professor in the Department of Animal Reproduction at the School of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science at the University of São Paulo and a level 1A researcher at CNPq. He has experience in reproductive efficiency, focusing mainly on synchronization techniques for the application of reproductive biotechnologies aimed at genetic and productive improvement of beef and dairy herds. He has published over 300 articles in scientific journals and has supervised 62 master’s theses and doctoral dissertations in his field of expertise.

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).

Oswaldo Furlan Júnior

President, Grupo Pecuária Brasil (GPB)

Sérgio Bortolozzo

President, Sociedade Rural Brasileira (SRB)

Victor Campanelli

Executive Director, Campanelli

Administrator, CEO of Tecnobeef and Campanelli, is the third generation of farmers in the family. He is a member of the Advisory Chamber of Price of Ox Datagro.
Through its strategic management, it revolutionized the company and made confinement one of the most technological and sustainable in Brazil.