Fertilizer Latino Americano

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Formerly senior vice-president for Latin America, Marcelo has been working for the fertilizer industry for the past 22 years in different positions and leading different markets across Latin America. Read less

Ruy joined Lavoro in January 2018, having served as Chief Transformation Officer of Lavoro Group until December 2019 and Chief Operating Officer until January 2021. Before that, Ruy was president of Santal Equipamentos and managing director for sugar cane equipment at AGCO. He has a degree in Engineering from the Instituto Maua de Tecnologia, a specialist degree in Business from Fundacao Getulio Vargas and a Master’s degree from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Read less

In this role, Alzbeta leads the global fertilizer industry towards creating productive and sustainable agriculture systems that help eradicate poverty and hunger. In the past, she has led IFC/World Bank Group’s climate business, positioning IFC as a lead investor in green and ESG investments in emerging markets. Before this, she led IFC’s agribusiness investments, industrial investments and managed its investment portfolio. Alzbeta has a master’s degree in economics from the University of Ottawa, Canada, where she also studied for her doctorate; an engineering degree from Prague University, Czech Republic; and executive education from Harvard Business School and INSEAD. She is a chartered financial analyst and has served on the boards of several agribusiness companies.  Read less

Eduardo has worked at several companies that specialise in agribusiness, fertilizers and financial services, such as Cargill. He has also worked at PwC. He holds degrees in Economics and Accountancy , and has a Master’s degree in International Management and Strategy. Read less

Tim is Senior Vice President for the fertilizer sector at Argus. Tim worked a process manager at an ammonia/urea plant in South Africa before moving to the UK to join KBR (then M.W. Kellogg) as a process engineer in the ammonia technology team. More recently Tim has covered fertilizer and industrial nitrogen as a market analyst. Read less

Maria has held her current position since 2008. She was previously the Marketing and Communications Manager for the Argentinian Seed Association and began her professional life as the Biosolids Agricultural Valorisation Project Manager for Aguas Argentinas. She is a specialist in soil fertility and fertiliser use and has a degree from the University of Buenos Aires faculty of agronomy. Read less

Flavia Bohone is the agriculture and fertilizer editor for Argus Brazil. With 20 years’ experience in business and financial journalism, she joined Argus in May to develop agricultural coverage in Brazil. Previously, she has worked at newswires such as Reuters and Bloomberg. Read less

Kelly Johnson is the Business Development Team Lead for IFC’s investments in the fertilizers, chemicals and textile sectors in the Latin American and Caribbean region. IFC (International Finance Corporation) is the private-sector lending arm of the World Bank Group with a global portfolio of more than $60 billion. Kelly has led negotiations and structured projects for more than $2 billion in financing for many of IFC’s loan and equity investments in refining, fertilizer, oil and gas, and light manufacturing projects in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa, and South and Southeast Asia. He has been with IFC for nearly 20 years. Prior to joining IFC, Kelly held various positions with ExxonMobil in supply scheduling, crude and light products trading and downstream marketing. Read less

Before joining Mosaic, Mark worked for Dow AgroSciences and Elanco Animal Health in various sales roles. He has more than 20 years’ experience in agriculture, having grown up on his family’s farm in Minnesota, US. Mark has a bachelor’s degree in Agronomy from Iowa State University and a Master’s degree from the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota Read less

Montiel is an agronomist with vast experience in the field of agriculture. He founded Organitec Fertilizantes, which is Paraguay’s first company to deal with granulate organic mineral fertilizers. Montiel is the country’s former vice minister of industry, as well as a former agricultural researcher and teacher at the university of Paraguay. He has a master of science degree in soil science from the Federal University of Santa Maria in Brazil. Read less

Matt Simpson is the CEO of Brazil Potash. Matt has taken Brazil Potash from the resource exploration stage to a near fully construction-ready state with key permitting, technical and EISA studies largely completed. From 2002 to 2010, Matt worked for the Iron Ore Company of Canada, a subsidiary of Rio Tinto where he held several senior management roles including Mine General Manager where he managed 650 employees and an annual budget of ~US$300M to break every historic production record during his tenure. Prior to joining IOC, Matt worked as a process engineer for Hatch Ltd. designing and constructing metallurgical refineries globally. Read less

Claira joined Argus Consulting Services in 2020 and leads the processed phosphates and phosphate rock subscription portfolio. She joined the consulting arm of Argus after spending a little over five years in the company’s editorial department as Sulphur Editor and Sulphur Fertilizers Team leader. She has over 16 years’ experience in both the oil and gas and fertilizer industries having been, prior to joining Argus, the Editor of global downstream oil and gas technical journals. Claira has held training seminars for key fertilizer market participating companies and regularly presents to clients on market developments at conferences, meetings and via webinars. Claira has also managed the Argus Strategy Report: Fertilizers in Sub-Saharan Africa. Read less

Alistair Wallace is Argus' head of ammonia research, and leads Argus' cost modelling in the clean ammonia space. Alistair also has over 15 years of experience in the nitrogen market and supports the company’s research on the wider fertilizer industry, focusing primarily on cost competitiveness and mid to long-term price forecasting for the N, P and K markets. Alistair presents at major conferences on ammonia and fertilizer market trends. Read less

Renata Cardarelli Gabrielli is a journalist specialized in fertilizers for the Brazilian market. She is the deputy editor of the publication Argus Brazil Grains and Fertilizer. Apart from the coverage for the Brazilian publication, she contributes with local information to the global publications Nitrogen, Phosphates, Potash and the Phosphate and Nitrogen dailies, edited by the Argus team in London. She represented Argus at international events, such as the FLA (Fertilizer Latino Americano), in Miami, USA. She also conducted the talk “A view of the Latin American fertilizer sector” at the Innovar Fair, in Paraguay. She keeps constant contact with market participants in Brazil and other Latin American countries, such as Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay. Before Argus, she worked as communication analyst, writing sustainability reports based on international standards such as the Global Reporting Initiate (GRI) and Integrated Reporting (IR) and as producer and reporter for networks such as Globo radio. Read less

Clare joined Verdesian Life Sciences, a nutrient use efficiency company in agriculture, in August this year as the company’s chief executive. Before this, she was chief sustainability officer for Masonite International, where she was responsible for building and implementing the company’s ESG strategy. Clare also served as senior vice-president and general manager of Masonite Europe, after joining the company in 2016 as senior vice-president and business leader in global components. Clare in the past has worked for Elementis as vice-president of marketing and spent 11 years with Rohm and Haas Company in various product management and marketing roles. She has a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, and an MBA from Columbia University. She completed a year-long programme at the Higher Ambition Leadership Alliance in Massachusetts and holds a certificate in sustainable capitalism from Berkeley Law Executive Education. Read less

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Reinaldo is a seasoned executive with more than 20 years’ experience in sales, trading and business development in the fertilizer industry in the Americas. As Head of the Americas for Anglo American, he has bolstered commercial initiatives and negotiated pivotal agreements. At Sirius Minerals, he pioneered market strategies for POLY4 in Brazil and the rest of Latin America. Formerly with Koch Fertilizer, he propelled the Latin American trading book and worked on the development of several projects in Venezuela where Koch participated. His background is in Industrial Engineering from UCAB in Caracas, Venezuela, and he has an MBA from Bryant University in Smithfield, Rhode Island. Read less

Cassidy Million, Ph.Dl., serves as the Director of Ag Science for Heliae® Agriculture and is responsible for overseeing agronomy training and product performance trials. Before joining Heliae® Agriculture, Dr. Million served as the Senior Agriculture Research Scientist at Monty’s Plant Food. Before this role she held a postdoctoral position with the USDA ARS Crop Production and Pest Control Research Division where she researched non-host resistance in wheat and barley. Prior, she performed research in the Integrated Plant Protection Unit of (SLU’s) Swedish University of the Agricultural Sciences’ Plant Protection Biology department. She obtained her bachelor’s degree in Biology from Indiana University Southeast and continued to earn her master’s degree in Plant Pathology from Ohio State University. Read less

Hans-Christian has been in the shipping industry since 1987, when he joined EAC. In 1994, he took responsibility for the company’s chartering department for the European dry cargo division. In 1997, he transferred to Eitzen in connection with the latter’s takeover of EAC’s bulk activities, and in 2010 Eitzen Bulk was acquired by Ultrabulk. He has held various roles and management positions at Ultrabulk. In 2014, he took charge of the company’s global Panamax activities, before assuming the position of Chief Operating Officer in 2021. He has been Chief Executive since 2022. Hans-Christian has a degree in international trade from the Copenhagen Business School. In addition to being a member of the Baltic Exchange Index Council, he is a director at shipping association BIMCO and is a board member at several Ultrabulk subsidiaries. Read less

Thomas started his shipping career in 1990 and has earned his stripes in a succession of increasingly challenging roles within senior management and leadership for maritime market leaders. He has led several maritime start-ups and turnarounds and acts as an external advisor on leadership, strategy and optimisation to global maritime, logistics and private equity organisations. He serves on professional boards within shipping and logistics. Thomas holds an MBA in shipping and logistics (Blue MBA) from Copenhagen Business School. Read less

Ana is the Managing Director for Hydrogen at Portuguese firm EDPR, leading the group’s renewable hydrogen business. Prior to that, Ana was the Head of Energy Planning at Portugal’s EDP, where she was responsible for supporting the Executive Board of Directors in its decision-making processes, contributing a long-term perspective of the energy sector and an integrated vision of the company across businesses — renewables, conventional electricity generation, retail and distribution — and geographies — mainly Europe, the US and Brazil. Before that, Ana worked at the Directorate-General for Research at the European Commission, supporting the development of a strategic research agenda in the field of energy. Ana holds a PhD with distinction in Electrical Engineering from Iowa State University. She also holds a Master’s in Economics and a Master’s in Engineering from the same university, having graduated from the University of Porto with a degree in electrical engineering. Read less

During the last 20 years, Chris has been working to introduce a variety of plant nutrition, biostimulants and crop protection technologies into the Latin America markets, holding management positions in companies such as Verdesian, Syngenta and Keytrade AG. Chris is an agronomist who graduated from Universidade Federal de Parana in Brazil and earned a master’s degree in soil science and plant nutrition and a MBA in agricultural business management from ESALQ/USP in Brazil. Read less

Anderson is the founder and chief executive officer of Brazilian agribusiness consultancy Celeres. Previously, he implemented and co-ordinated the department of agriculture at São Paulo’s FNP Consulting and Commerce, where he developed and managed studies and projects related to the country’s agriculture. He worked in the risk management area through the use of the futures markets in the Brazilian Mercantile & Futures Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade. Anderson serves on the board of the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications and is an associate consultant at GV Consult at the São Paulo School of Business Administration. An agronomic engineer, he graduated from the Federal University of Uberlândia and holds a post-graduate degree in business administration from the Getulio Vargas Foundation. Read less

Oliver Hatfield, is VP Business Development for Argus Media in London. Oliver joined Argus in October 2018 following its acquisition of Integer Research, where he spent 15 years as head of the fertilizer market research team. Oliver has more than 20 years of experience in business analysis and consulting, and he was also one of the founders of Integer. Oliver has worked extensively on multi-client and bespoke fertilizer market analysis studies, covering market forecasts, strategy, due diligence, market entry and project feasibility. He has worked as an analyst on all the key fertilizer and related chemical markets: nitrogen, phosphates, potash, sulphur and sulphuric acid. Oliver is a graduate of economics and development economics from the University of Manchester in the UK. Read less

Luis Miguel has 11 years of experience in hydrogen and power-to-X projects, sustainable mobility, renewable energy, and green construction. He is Operations Manager at Hinicio's office in Colombia where he has worked for more than five years, during which time he has participated in various projects related to hydrogen and ammonia in Latin America, including market studies, techno-economic analysis, corporate strategies, and project development assistance. Prior to this, he worked as a technical manager for a Colombian firm specialized in sustainable construction. Luis Miguel also worked at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy in Germany, researching provision of ancillary grid services by large-scale and distributed battery systems. He has co-authored several papers published in scientific journals and has been a keynote speaker at national and international events. Luis Miguel is a Biologist and has a master's degree in Renewable Energy Management from the University of Freiburg Read less

Tomoyuki oversees US business development for ammonia technology company Tsubame BHB., building partnerships with renewable energy and hydrogen developers, and companies in the agriculture sector interested in small-scale green ammonia production, with a view to achieving de-carbonization and stable ammonia supply. Before joining Tsubame BHB, Tomoyuki was a Process Engineer at the Haber-Bosch ammonia plant, where he built up a strong knowledge base about production. He also worked at a global oil and gas company in sales, marketing and supply-chain roles. Tomoyuki has master’s in chemical engineering from Waseda University. Read less

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Mauricio holds a bachelors degree in chemical engineering at the Universidad Nacional de Rio Cuarto, Cordoba, Argentina. Following his graduation, Mauricio started working as an operations engineer in industrial facilities, achieving operations managing positions in petrochemical/fertilizer plants, leading production and inspection departments in Petrobras Argentina. In 2014, he joined Stamicarbon, holding the role of area sales manager for Latin America, and since 2018 holds the role of licensing manager. Within this position, Mauricio is responsible for the acquisition, management and development of Stamicarbon’s urea and nitric acid technologies as well as services and solutions in the Americas and Sub-Saharan Africa. In addition to his regular activities, Mauricio has an active participation at Met-Dev supporting the project development activities of the group, pursing the development of fertilizer project opportunities in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa. Read less

Lucas began his career at Monsanto do Brasil in 2012 as a Commercial Representative for Intacta soybean biotechnology, before becoming a Technical Sales Representative for soybeans and cotton. In 2016, he joined agriculture company Climate Fieldview’s commercial team, winning the global Master Sales Awards twice in a row, and helping to promote digital farming in Brazil. In 2018, he joined BASF and has overseen Brazilian commercial affairs for BASF's global digital farming brand, xarvio. Lucas graduated from the Federal University of Pelotas/RS, Brazil, with a master's degree and doctorate in seed science and technology. Read less

Thomas is responsible for development and financing of early-stage manufacturing and climate projects in Latin America and the Caribbean, with a particular focus on decarbonisation finance and green strategies. Before joining IFC, Thomas worked for 10 years in management consulting across different industries and was involved in drawing up ESG strategies in Latin America, Europe and the Middle East. He has also worked with Impact Investing Private Equity, which is focused on Africa’s Indian Ocean coast. Thomas has a degree in chemical engineering from Unicamp, Brazil, and an MBA from Columbia University in the US. Read less

Matias is provides agronomic support to Koch’s customers in Latin America and southern Africa, particularly for enhanced-efficiency fertilizers. Before joining Koch, he provided agronomic support for premium phosphate and potash products globally and later worked in the seed industry. Matias has a PhD in crop science from the University of Illinois. Read less

Walter Sandoval graduated from National University of Asuncion with a BS in Biology. In 2013, Walter earned an MS in Microbiology from North Carolina State University (NCSU), through a Fulbright Scholarship. In 2016, Walter obtained his PhD in the same discipline, the year in which his doctoral thesis received the Kenneth R. Keller award, for excellence in doctoral dissertation. In 2017, Walter began his postdoc at the Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department at Harvard University. In 2020, Walter returned to Paraguay, where he is faculty and currently leads the Microbial Biotechnology Lab at the National University of Asuncion. In the private sector, Walter is the Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) of MicroBios S.A. In 2022, Walter was awarded as a Global Fellow of the Eisenhower Fellowships. Read less

Raza is an electrical and electronics engineer who is founder and chief executive of the UAE-headquartered, multinational RNZ Group, a company that produces specialty fertilizers with Shell and is developing futuristic bio-tech inputs. Raza has an MBA. Read less

Hunter currently serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Phospholutions, Inc. He graduated from Pennsylvania State University with a BSc in Plant Sciences, where he was recognised as Top Entrepreneur at the university. He sits on the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Advisory Board for the College of Agricultural Sciences at Penn State University. Swisher founded Phospholutions, Inc. in 2016 to develop and commercialise solutions to improve the efficiency of global phosphorus use. Phospholutions, Inc. is headquartered in State College, PA. Read less

Martin provides senior consultant services to fertilizer and agri-mining companies by offering integrated assistance on technical and market issues necessary to conduct business in South American countries. Martin is an agronomist with an MSc in Soil Science and a PhD in Natural Resources from the University of Buenos Aires. He is active in the research, teaching and extension fields and is the International Fertilizer Association’s (IFA) correspondent for the southern cone region of Latin America, helping to update and adjust market and technical information. Read less

Pablo is the managing director and head of Latin America for ThirdWay Partners, a global platform committed to the vision of businesses, communities and ecosystems thriving together. Pablo has two decades of experience in sustainable finance, having previously served as lead partner for Impact Finance and head of decarbonisation at Deloitte Latin America, as well as head of equity and mezzanine investments at IDB Invest and regional equity head at the International Finance Corporation. He was recognised by Illuminem as one of the top 50 global sustainability thought leaders in 2022. Verra holds an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, an MA from the Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in industrial engineering from the University of Buenos Aires. Read less

Ricardo is an agronomist engineer with 46 years of experience in the agricultural sector. He joined Argentinian company Rizobacter in 1981 and became its chief executive in 2013. The firm has eight subsidiaries and sells biological products for agriculture in more than 45 countries. He has a degree in agronomy from the National University of La Plata, Argentina Read less

Flavia Bohone is the agriculture and fertilizer editor for Argus Brazil. With 20 years’ experience in business and financial journalism, she joined Argus in May to develop agricultural coverage in Brazil. Previously, she has worked at newswires such as Reuters and Bloomberg. Read less

Julia Campbell is the Potash editor at Argus Media. Prior to this, she was the NPKs editor having launched the report in April 2016. She has also previously held the role of Fertilizer Europe editor and covered the phosphates and ammonia markets as a reporter. Before joining Argus in 2013, she worked at Textiles Intelligence and Datamonitor in the editorial department. She has a BA(Hons) degree in Ancient History from the University of Manchester. Read less

Claira joined Argus Consulting Services in 2020 and leads the processed phosphates and phosphate rock subscription portfolio. She joined the consulting arm of Argus after spending a little over five years in the company’s editorial department as Sulphur Editor and Sulphur Fertilizers Team leader. She has over 16 years’ experience in both the oil and gas and fertilizer industries having been, prior to joining Argus, the Editor of global downstream oil and gas technical journals. Claira has held training seminars for key fertilizer market participating companies and regularly presents to clients on market developments at conferences, meetings and via webinars. Claira has also managed the Argus Strategy Report: Fertilizers in Sub-Saharan Africa. Read less

Alistair Wallace is Argus' head of ammonia research, and leads Argus' cost modelling in the clean ammonia space. Alistair also has over 15 years of experience in the nitrogen market and supports the company’s research on the wider fertilizer industry, focusing primarily on cost competitiveness and mid to long-term price forecasting for the N, P and K markets. Alistair presents at major conferences on ammonia and fertilizer market trends. Read less