Directors & Executive Officers

Juan Sartori

Juan Sartori
Executive Chairman
Director

Juan Sartori is founder and executive chairman of UAG. Juan is also founder and President of Union Group, which operates in Latin America across the agriculture, energy, forestry, infrastructure, minerals and real estate sectors. Previously, Juan founded Union Capital Group, a Geneva based multi-strategy asset manager, which he managed from 2002 to 2008.

Juan is a CFA Charterholder, holds a Bachelor Degree in Business and Economics from École des Hautes Études Commerciales de Lausanne, and attended Harvard University, where he studied Economics and International Finance.

Languages: French, Italian, English and Spanish.

Romualdo Varela Romualdo Varela
CEO

Current CEO at UAG.

Former Managing Director and Country Manager at Zenda/Marfrig Group for 11 years in South Africa.

International Relations (business and commerce) studies at UDELAR in Montevideo, Uruguay.

Retired Lt. Colonel.

Languages: English, Portuguese and Spanish

Carlos Dubra Carlos Dubra
Chief Financial Officer

Carlos brings nine years of CFO experience at RBS, Deutsche Bank and American Express in the UK and US.

Previously Carlos worked in Sales Strategy for Capital One and as a Strategy Consultant for McKinsey & Co in Brazil.

Carlos holds an MBA from the Wharton School and a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Universidad de la República.

Languages: Spanish, English, Portuguese and basic Italian and French.

Edgardo Cardozo Edgardo Cardozo
Technical Advisor

Agronomist. UDELAR, Uruguay.

Ph.D. in Animal Science from Michigan State University.

Former General Manager of the Forestry Society (SPF). Uruguay

Former Vice Minister of Agriculture of Uruguay

Full and Part-time professor at UDELAR

Oscar León Oscar León
Group Financial Services

Certified Public Accountant with a solid background in Financial Management, Accounting, Project Finance and Risk Analysis

Twenty-five years of practical experience as Certified Public Accountant.

Seventeen years of experience as CFO, Financial Controller, Chief Accountant for several Uruguayan, Canadian and American Companies.

Languages: English, French and Spanish.

Juan Mastropierro Juan J. Mastropierro
Chief Operations Officer

Agronomist. UDELAR, Uruguay.

Post graduate studies in: irrigation, soy cultivation, nutrition, animal food,  storage and preservation of seeds.

 

Julio De Brum Julio De Brun
Non Executive Director

CPA. UDELAR, Uruguay.

Economist. UDELAR, Uruguay.

Executive Director of the Asociación de Bancos Privados del Uruguay (ABPU).

Former President of the Uruguayan Central Bank (BCU).

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Jerome Tordo
Non Executive Director

Graduate from EM Lyon, Business School. France.

Co-founder of Sycomore Asset Management and President of Cypanga SA and Director of Financière SAM 2

Languages: french and english

Roberto Vazquez Roberto Vazquez Platero
Non Executive Director

Agronomist. UDELAR, Uruguay

Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University, U.S.A.

Former Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Uruguay.

Former Chairman of the Audit Comittee, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFRI), USA.

Former Chairman of the Beef Commitee, International Meat Secretariat, (IMS), France.

Bragard Jean Jacques Bragard
Non Executive Director

Lawyer. UDELAR, Uruguay.

Program of Instruction for lawyers P.I.L. (Harvard University)

Member of Colegio de Abogados del Uruguay

Languages: French, English and Spanish


 


 

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