Softs
Significant talent moves
Talent search and competitive intelligence specialists
It’s London for coffee man Max Copestake upon becoming an Executive Director of Marex Spectron. During his time at previous employer Volcafe in Vietnam and Switzerland he was a commercial manager and a prop trader. Before that - being a broker for ICAP.
Sucden in Bogotá welcomes Pablo Butteri as CEO. Pablo has worked in Colombia since taking a trade director slot with Ecom Agroindustrial in 2009. Next up was being a regional trade manager for Armajaro before rising to country manager at most recent company ECTP.
New to LDC are Rafael Cardoso as a Sugar Trader and Marcelo Lima as Senior Ethanol Trader. Both are located in São Paulo. In Rafael’s case the move has been from COFCO, for which he followed a Brazilian placement in researching sugar matters with a stint in Lisbon as global supply sugar research co-ordinator. Marcelo traded sugar futures and ethanol with Bunge in Brasil in the period 2013-2018 and since then has had two years as an Alvean sugar trader.
*Based on answers given by participants in a recent survey run by Commodity Appointments re. analysts/strategists compensation in Softs
*Based on answers given by participants in a recent survey run by Commodity Appointments re. analysts/strategists compensation in Softs
Regiane Nobrega in São Paulo is the new Executive Manager for market intelligence at BRF, returning to the group where she was a risk manager for almost five years to 2016. In between there’s been four years as a trader/risk manager for Bunge.
Once head of grain research at the University of São Paulo, Mauricio Moraes has also been chief of sugar research at Noble Americas. More recent times have seen Mauricio directing analytics of grains and softs for Sierentz North America and senior oilseeds analyst at Citadel. Today he’s with Bunge in New York City to be their Global Director-Vegetable Oils Analysis.
We close this time with two moves at Olam to report. One involves Francisco J. Villazon, made VP-Business Development located in Dallas. The other sees Karun Prabhath Raman brought from Hamburg to Ho Chi Minh City to be Head of Global Sourcing of pepper and cinnamon for Olam’s spice business based in Vietnam. Francisco’s career track has been with the Ecom group over the past two decades. He went from Latin America cotton trader to COO/VP in the United States, then MD-Asia Pacific in Shanghai and back to Ecom USA as COO. Karun’s been with Olam for seven years, in locations that have included Ethiopia, Tanzania and Germany and capacities including his most recent time in Hamburg as a coffee trader.
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