Our Team
It is a pleasure to announce and welcome Mr. Juan Bernardo Botero to our team as our Vice President of Marketing and International Relations. Born in the city of Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia and raised in a Catholic family with agricultural and livestock traditions interacting from a very young age with agricultural crops, livestock, and coffee exports to the US.
With more than 40 years of professional experience in agriculture, livestock and agribusiness, venturing into the areas of production and marketing for both national and international markets.
In the 1980s, Juan Bernardo studied Agricultural Business Administration at the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University in the city of Bogotá. From the 1990s to 2005 he cultivated fruit crops for export and industrial processing for the US and Australian markets.
Later he dedicated himself to consulting agro-industrial projects such as the transformation of Jatropha curcas into biodiesel, conversion of plastic waste into Diesel with reverse technology, project structuring of RSU (Urban Solid Waste) in the sanitary landfill of the city of Valledupar to recycling and transformation of garbage into compost and electricity generation working with Swedish and Turkish companies.
He is currently developing a project for the generation of green hydrogen through disused or low-productivity oil wells with an interdisciplinary group. Since 2020, he has been in foreign trade of different products, including molasses for animal use and alcohol production, sugar cane alcohol for the production of alcoholic beverages, mineral coal, iron ore, sugar, gold.