Antônio Duarte Nogueira Júnior

Mayor of Ribeirão Preto

Guilherme Piai Filizzola

Secretary of Agriculture and Supply of the State of São Paulo

Lucas Bove

State Deputy, Legislative Assembly of the State of São Paulo

Zé Vitor

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

Coming Soon.

Abel Uchoa

General Director, SJC Bioenergia

Ailton Santos

Chief Financial Officer, Cocal

Airton Silva

Industrial Consultant, DATAGRO High Performance

COMING SOON.

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.

Alessandro Correia

Partner, Vectis

Partner & Head of Agribusiness at Vectis Gestão

Alessandro has more than 24 years of experience in the financial market. He was a Manager of Equities at Canvas Capital, previously a senior analyst on Pollux’s global Equities team. Prior to joining Pollux, he worked at Angra Partners as a manager, responsible for M&A and financial Advisory projects. He also worked in strategic consulting at Accenture and as a trainee at Banco Itaú BBA. Alessandro was a member of the CA of Vanguarda Agro from 2014 to 2016. He is a mechanical engineer graduated from UNICAMP and has CGA certification.

André do Amaral

Manager of Commercial Operations, Grunner

André Assis

Agroindustrial Planning Manager, Zilor

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

Partner, DATAGRO Alta Performance

Auro Pardinho

Marketing Manager, DMB Máquinas e Implementos Agrícolas

Bruno Rangel Geraldo Martins

Vice President, ORPLANA

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

Celso Roxo

Chief Financial Officer, Usina Lins

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 Blanco

Operational Manager, Peterson

Agronomist graduated from the University of Marília, with postgraduates in Soil Management and Conservation from the University of São Paulo and Occupational Safety Engineering from the same university. He has extensive experience in Project Management, from the planning of activities to the preparation of reports for presentation of results. In addition, he has extensive experience with legislation and compliance audits in the three pillars of sustainability (environmental, social and economic). He currently serves as Operational Manager at Peterson Consultoria and has expertise with 2BSVS, Globalgap, ISCC, Bonsucro, UTZ and RTRS standards.

Dário W Sodré

Director, D2G Consultoria Empresarial

Douglas Mariani

Senior Engineer, Soteica

“I hold a degree in Chemical Engineering from the State University of Maringá (2005), a master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the State University of Maringá (2007), and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the State University of Maringá (2011). Currently, I work as a Business Consultant at Soteica do Brasil Aplicação de Computadores na Simulação de Processos Ltda. I have expertise in Team Management, Project Management, and Implementation of Real-Time Optimization Projects, as well as Technology in Chemical Engineering with a focus on mathematical modeling, simulation of chemical and petrochemical processes, operational optimization, oil and gas, heat exchanger network, pinch analysis, reactor synthesis, and biofuels.”

Eduardo Calichman

Partner, DATAGRO Alta Performance

Eduardo Leão

President and CEO, Croplife Brazil

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.

Fernando Cullen

Industrial Manager and Industrial Technology Advisor, Grupo São Martinho

Francisco Lomonaco

Technical Director, Benri Ratings

Flavio Castellari

Specialist in Access to International Markets

Germán Serino

Director, Chacra Experimental Agricola Santa Rosa

Guilherme Correia

Trader, Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC)

Herivelton Lobo

CTT Manager, BEVAP Bioenergia

Hugo Cagno Filho

President, UDOP

Isac Ferreira

Senior Director of Corporate Transformation, Alvarez & Marsal

João Bortolussi

CEO, JBR Engenharia Industrial

José Fernando Mazuca Filho

CEO, UISA

José Guilherme Nogueira

CEO, ORPLANA

Livia Kosaka

Strategic Consulting Manager, DATAGRO

Luca Giobbi

CEO, Usina Sonora

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.

Luciano Rodrigues

Diretor, UNICA

Luís Augusto Contin

Agricultural Production Manager, Usina Alta Mogiana

Luiz Gustavo Wiechoreki

General Coordinator of Sugarcane and Agroenergy, MAPA

Luiz Magno de Brito

Agroindustrial Director, Usina Caeté

Marcelo Bosquetti

Commercial Director, Companhia Mineira de Açúcar e Álcool (CMAA)

Marcelo Morandi

Researcher, EMBRAPA

Márcia Mutton

University Professor, FCAV/UNESP

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

Matheus Licarião

Director and Head of DCM, Santander Brasil

Murilo Gasparoto

Agricultural Manager, Usina São Manoel

Paulo Bruno Craveiro

Data Analyst, DATAGRO

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 Motta

CEO, Cerradinho Bioenergia

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 Bassetto

Industrial Manager, Usina São Manoel

COMING SOON.

Ricardo Alves

Senior Trader of Origination, Raízen

COMING SOON.

Ricieri Zerbatto

Implementation and After-Sales Manager, Saveway

Ronaldo Petri

Senior Consultant,, DATAGRO

Rosana Amadeu Silva

President, CEISE

COMING SOON.

Sérgio Bortolozzo

President, Sociedade Rural Brasileira (SRB)

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

William Burnquist

Executive Director, BOYD BIOTECH DO BRASIL

Wilson Lucena

Industrial Director, BP Bunge Bioenergia