Agro & Environment mentors

Andrés is an agronomist specializing in innovation, management of information, communication technologies, and business models. He is currently developing recommendation systems for public announcements. He has experience in business intelligence and big data.

Edduardo is a Business Developer with an interest in social impact. He has experienced in commercial strategies development and implementation, B2B sales and process optimization. He worked for Procter & Gamble's Customer Business Development Unit. Previously, he was the founder and CEO of his own start-up in the health sector.

Javier Mozó is Co-founder of CAAAPITAL and Managing Partner of their PE fund DG Energy Capital. Both companies are dedicated to financing renewable distributed energy resources in Latam, with offices in Mexico and Chile. Javier is the technical manager of the companies and the head of their chilean offices. Javier is an industrial engineer from Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, and has extensive experience in finance and business development of clean-tech and renewable energy. Previously, he worked as an international sales manager for Crystal Lagoons, and as an advisor for Corporacion de Bienes de Capital (CBC).

Jorge is an entrepreneur, agronomist and an agriculture speaker. He is the founder of Agriculturers.com. He has participated in various accelerators, including Start-Up Chile, La French Tech, and Orizont. His specialties include pitch presentations, business models, and growth strategies.

He started with Instacrops in 2015, a company that improves the profitability and mitigate the latent risk caused by the sudden climatic changes in the Latin American agricultural world, using online monitoring services. More than two years after their first sale, they already sold US$ 400K of monitoring solution, get SSAF, scale programs, and raise funds with private investors.

Patricia works in the development of R&D projects, supporting them into the technology transfer and commercialization. She is actively a mentor for projects related to natural resources, and has vast experience working in agricultural sciences.

Founding partner and General Director of Orion Capital a company specialized on Forestry Investment and Silviculture Management. During his 30 years experience in the international forestry business, has worked as C.E.O. of Maderas Condor, Marketing Vice-President of CMPC Forestry, Representative of CMPC Asia Limited base in Tokyo and as sales manager for Asian countries of CMPC International. Previously Navy Officer of the Chilean navy. Mechanical Engineer with a MSc. in Industrial Engineering.

Max is an agronomist, wine and agricultural strategist, articulating public/ private business initiatives. He worked as strategic consultant for CORFO and then manager of Nodo Estratégico Chile Vitivinícola 2.0. He has collaborated as mentor in UDD Ventures Concepción and Incuba UdeC for agricultural projects. Founder www.andeswines.com. He has developed Corporate Social Responsability (CSR) Projects for mining and forestry companies and was recognized in 2003 as one of 100 leaders in Chile by Revista El Sábado from El Mercurio. He writes for several wine media and has a an extense global communication network. Max is a tour guide specialized in wine and works freelance as the Wine Expert for the National Geographic Explorer Expedition Ship.

Stéphane is an entrepreneur with expertise in e-commerce and stakeholder management with a focus on agriculture. He has a special interest in the design of private sector projects with high social and/or environmental value and identifying opportunities by applying the business analysis tool Creating Shared Value (CSV). He is also adept at advising on mitigation of cultural risks in business, a subject he has published on.

Nicolas is an environmentalist with a background in Civil construction, he is the Co-Founder and CEO of @RECYLINK. He developed a career in social housing in the public and NGO sector, after an MSc studies in Environment and Development, his career pivoted towards the environmental issues. Today he is fully dedicated to sustainable initiatives from the entrepreneurship, volunteer work and the academia.

From what began in 2006 as a Latin American consulting firm specializing in the fruit and vegetable trade, Gustavo Yentzen has since built his company Yentzen Consulting into a multi-faceted international platform with media and news as its major focus, reaching growers and traders in countries ranging from the U.S. to as far away as India, the Netherlands or South Africa.
His three sites have the widest reach in the global produce industry with 3.6 million page views in 2016, reaching 187 countries and over 150,000 subscribers."

"Andrés is an agronomist specializing in innovation, management of information and communication technologies, and business models. Currently he is developing recommendation systems for public announcements. He has experience in business intelligence and big data."