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The People Behind AgroNosotros

We are incredibly proud that AgroNosotros has grown from a handful of people in 2014 to over 100 people in 2021, spread across Panama and Belize. This large group of coffee and cacao farmers, chocolate makers, factory workers, marketing, sales, and operations teams are managed daily by our multi-lingual, multi-national Executive Team.

Our Central Team

David Sewell, B.Sc. MBA

Founder and CEO of AgroNosotros

David and his very experienced multi-national and multi-lingual team of about 80 personnel operate eighteen (18) specialty coffee and cacao farms in Panama and Belize. Both of these “specialty agriculture” businesses are fully vertically integrated from “seed-to-bean-to-cup” (coffee) and seed-to-bean-to bar” (cacao/chocolate), respectively.

David strongly believes in the future of specialty agriculture as one of the most likely asset classes to realize spectacular investment gains over the next 20 years.

With an extensive business background in private equity, venture capital and offshore private wealth management, David’s attention is focused on creating and operating businesses that offer real hard assets with growth potential and an emphasis on the Triple Bottom Line framework that prioritizes people, planet, and profits equally.

Darren Doyle

Co-Founder and President of AgroNosotros

Born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, Darren moved offshore at 19 and has lived offshore in dozens of countries around the world, adapting to different cultures and languages.

Darren has been instrumental to the growth of AgroNosotros over the last 10 years through offering outside investors the opportunity to participate alongside the company as passive investors in turn-key managed specialty coffee and cacao farms in Panama and Belize. 

With $40M+ raised and over 800+ farm parcels/units sold to 500+ clients, Darren oversees all owner and investor relations, from maintaining healthy relationships with existing clients to raising capital and forging client relationships with new investors/owners. 

Darren is also actively involved in the day-to-day operations of developing the channels to market and distribute their specialty coffee and fine flavor chocolate wholesale and retail products to high-end customers nationally in Panama and Belize, as well as internationally in Europe, Asia, the US and CARICOM.

Andres Lopez

VP Farming Operations

Andres Lopez has worked in the coffee industry for the last 28 years developing a wide range of experience in coffee farming and processing as well as planning and engineering sustainable, eco-friendly coffee farms. His experience also encompasses direct farm personnel management, increasing farm utilization and profitability, inventory and warehouse control, product quality control, milling and roasting processes.

He’s overseen the implementation of modern farming practices on our cacao farms in Belize, with a focus on quality, education of the local Mayan farmers, disease prevention and increased productivity.

As a qualified grader of specialty coffee, Andres is a well respected member of the local and international specialty coffee community.

Since 2016 Andres has also started to apply his years of coffee knowledge to the cacao industry. He’s overseen the implementation of modern farming practices on our cacao farms in Belize, with a focus on quality, education of the local Mayan farmers, disease prevention and increased productivity.

Einar Segovia

Director of Finance

Einar comes from the Banking and Finance Business, bringing in more than 20 years of experience as a Panamanian bilingual professional in the Commercial and Corporate Banking divisions.

Born in Chiriqui and established in beautiful Boquete, where the best coffee grows, he has a special connection with the productive lands of the region and looks towards being part of the improvement process of sustainable activities related to coffee and cacao.

He is working on developing more efficient cost and expenses management procedures to support production and sales divisions in the next growth stage of the company.

Hector Rodriguez

Director of IT / Systems

Hailing from Belize, home to our cacao farms and chocolate company, Mahogany Chocolate, Hector joined the company initially to help lessen our carbon footprint by moving much of our processes into a digital or electronic form furthering our eco-friendliness and streamlining workflows. 

Fully automating all of the companies’ many websites, email campaigns, CRM and Social Media platforms to create a smooth interface with our clients from around the world. 

After relocating to Panama for over a year to support the Sales and Marketing team, Mr. Rodriguez now resides back in Belize where he continues to support our tech, sales and marketing teams in Panama City, Boquete and Belize.

Hector leads the team who are creating our e-commerce platforms that will be vital to to get our specialty coffee and chocolates out to the world.

Felipe Pop

Chocolate Maker

Felipe Pop is our Mahogany Chocolate Belize Chocolate Maker. He is from Santa Anna Village, a farming village ,and has been working in the cacao sector for more than ten years. In his early years working for well-known organizations, he became a cacao sapling grafter and had a grafting team that helped graft thousands of cacao saplings in the Stann Creek and Toledo Districts. Providing local cacao farmers with disease resistant and high yielding cacao varietals.

Felipe joined Mahogany Chocolate four years ago and quickly developed a passion for chocolate. He was already a “Seed to Bean'' expert and has now added the “Bean to Bar” process to complete the entire value chain. Using the best cacao beans (The Belize fine flavor cacao bean) and the finest ingredients available. He aspires to become a renowned Chocolate Maker as he makes the best chocolate “of the people for the people, by the people” with Mahogany Chocolate.

Edgar Gutierez

Team Leader

A native and resident of David, Chiriquí, Edgar graduated as an Industrial Engineer from the Technological University of Panama in 2021.

Driven by a great enthusiasm for applying the knowledge acquired during his academic training and by a constant desire for learning, Edgar joined our team in September 2022.

His incorporation focused on the implementation of new processes and controls within our chocolate factory and cafeteria.

Edgar is characterized by his focus on resource optimization, always seeking cost reduction and the implementation of strategies that improve efficiency for both collaborators and the company as a whole.

His constant curiosity drives him to explore and learn more and more about this fascinating sector, always looking for new opportunities to innovate and contribute to the growth of our company.

Elvira Acosta, CPA

Accounting & Finance Officer

Hi, I am Elvira, I live in David Chiriquí, graduated as an Authorized Public Accountant in 2001 and with a Master’s degree in 2005.

I joined the Agro Nosotros Team February 2023 with the purpose of using my acquired Knowledge to improve the company’s processes and at the same time acquire new experiences with a new activity that will provide an opportunity not only nationally but internationally.

Achieving not only personal but also work goals.

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Farm Staff

Without our Farming teams' hard work, expertise, and dedication, we would not be where we are today. Our goal is to connect our customers, the end consumers, with the farmers who grow and produce their food.
Many of our coffee farming team have been with us since the beginning and live right on our farms with their families. We have seen their kids grow up, attend school and mature into young adults. We recently highlighted a few of them in this video below.
In Belize, as well as our full-time farm workers, we have local cacao growers who sell their wet cacao beans to Mahogany Chocolate. In this video below, we highlighted a few cacao growers who were willing to share their stories.

Farm Team And Their Families Gallery

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