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Latin America: Opportunities and Challenges
Recorded 17 April 2024
Join five experts as AgriBusiness Global dives into the crop protection and biologicals markets of Latin America. This panel discussion will focus on regulatory, M&A, biologicals, and crop protection growth and opportunities as well as the pitfalls to avoid in Latin America.
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Diego Taube
Director
Chempro SA
Taube leads Chempro SA in the international commerce of agrochemicals based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Taube travels to find state-of-the-art off-patent active ingredients and formulations to register and sell them to the Argentinean importers. Apart from his work at Chempro, Diego is also the Chairman of the Board of the Argentinean Chamber of Chemical Products.
Dr. Nicolas Potrie
Director
TAFIREL
Based in Uruguay, Potrie travels the world to connect with government and business leaders to grow agribusiness in the main countries of Mercosur area with TAFIREL branches in Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay, and Bolivia. TAFIREL is one of the leading companies in agrochemicals in Uruguay since 1991 and belongs to the Chamber of Industries of Uruguay (CIU), the National Chamber of Fertilizers and Agrochemicals of Uruguay (CANAFFI), and also to the Chambers of Industries and Commerce of Pando City, Canelones, Uruguay. Dr. Potrie is part of the Board of Directors of the Binational Chamber of Commerce Uruguay – China since 2007.
Javier Chavarro
Independent Consultant
Chavarro is an experienced agribusiness professional with broad involvement in Latin American agricultural business and deep knowledge of marketing, top management, financial management, and agronomy in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Mexico, Central America besides of Argentina and Brazil. He works as a private consultant for LATAM crop protection companies as well as publishes articles and presents at conferences.
Alexandre Quesada
Founder and CEO
SmartTox
Quesada founded SmartTox, an international hub of agribusiness solutions that connects the best professionals in the world market, and now shareholder of Winhonor Brazil, a company developed to bridge the gap between the needs of the Brazilian agricultural market and the supply of products in Asia. He served as Business Director, developing new methodologies and markets in the area of cosmetics and veterinary products, in addition to sanitizing and cosmetics. Later, he served as Operations Director at the Agrochemicals, Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices unit of the same company, consolidating a total of 22 years of experience.
Lawrence Middler
Biologicals Analysis Lead
AgbioInvestor
Middler has 15 years of experience in the crop protection industry, covering a range of roles from pre-clinical agvet registration studies at a major CRO to ten years working in senior analytical roles within Phillips McDougall and now AgbioInvestor. At AgbioInvestor, Lawrence leads the biologicals analysis vertical, including the AgBiological multi-client report which covers the global biopesticide and biostimulants industries, and is powered by proprietary primary market research.
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