Investors

Víctor Moller Opazo is an agricultural technician from Escuela Agrícola de Paine, with a graduate degree from Universidad Católica de Chile. He has 25 years of experience in the agricultural industry and has been a member of the Board of Directors of Hortifrut S.A. since 2008.

In 2001 he was Logistic Operations Manager at Global Berry Farms in the United States, a company that imported, distributed and sold berries on the east and west Coast of the cpuntry (today Naturipe Farms). He was also a member of the Board of Directors of Pacific Nuts Company, a grower and distributor of nuts.

Víctor created Hortifrut Comercial S.A. (Chile) in 2002, the commercial and agricultural office of BerryGood (Brazil) in 2009 and the commercial and agricultural office of Hortifrut Colombia in 2019.

He is currently CEO of IMG Family Office, an agricultural and financial investment holding company.

Andrés Solari Urquieta holds a degree of business administration from Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, an MBA from Universidad de Los Andes/ESE and has been a director of Hortifrut S.A. since 2013.

He has 25 years of experience in the supermarket sector, starting at Santa Isabel and later at Cencosud. Since 2007 he has been CEO of Algeciras Holding, connected to the Elberg family, which participates in the real estate, financial, food and automotive sectors in America, Europe and Asia.

He currently participates on numerous company Boards of Directors. He is Vice-Chairman of banco Internacional, Grupo Patio and Hortifrut, and Director of Autosummit Chile and Peru, MundoCédito, A3 Propery Investment, Vértice, Summit Motors Peru, Algeciras Peru, BSF Peru, Alta Developers Inc. (USA), Bersummit Central Europe, Bersummit Europea Automoción and Automoción del Báltico.

Andrés Carvallo Prieto is an agricultural engineer with an MBA from Universidad Mayor. He is a founding partner and Executive Director of Exportadora Baika S.A. and has been a member of the Board of Directors of Hortifrut S.A. since 2017, and is also on the Boards of severa lof the Company’s subsidiaries.

Ulises Quevedo Berastain holds a degree in industrial engineering from Universidad de Lima and a MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

He is currently Executive Chairman of Grupo Rocío and has been a member of the Board of Directors of Hortifrut S.A. since July 2018.

Juan Luis Alemparte Rozas has a degree in industrial engineering from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and has served on Hortifrut S.A.’s Board since August 2018.

He began his career as an analyst at Banchile-Citi GM, with 12 years of experience in the financial and agricultural industry, at various positions in investment banking, private equity and other operational and financial departments.

Juan Luis is CEO of Grupo Rocío as of mid-2019.

Fernando Lopes Furtini has a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Mackenzie University in Sao Paulo, Brazil and holds an MBA from the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Fernando has been a Director on the board of Hortifrut S.A. since June 2023.

Fernando joined the Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments) in 2017 and he is currently Managing Director and Head of Latin America, Natural Resources Investments.

Over the past 20 years, Fernando gained extensive experience in financial markets and the natural resources sector having worked for investment and advisory companies in the Americas.

Fernando also represents PSP Investments in boards and advisory committees in other portfolio entities in Latin America, including investments in the row crop, permanent crop and timber sectors.

Cristián Figueroa Illanes is a lawyer from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and has a Diploma in Tax Analysis and Planning from the same university. He also has a master’s degree in law and finance from the University of Oxford.

He has more than 10 years of experience advising international and local clients and has been recognized as a leading lawyer by prestigious foreign legal publications. Between 2011-2012 he worked as a foreign associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in London.

Currently Cristián is a partner at Carey and one of the members in charge of the Corporate / Mergers and Acquisitions / Capital Markets group. His practice focuses on various mergers and acquisitions transactions, takeover bids, private negotiations for the purchase of assets and companies, tenders, project development, association agreements or joint ventures, issuance of capital and debt, capital markets, commercial law, law corporate, derivative transactions, infrastructure works concessions and general practice.

Patricia Sabag Zarruk has a degree in business administration from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, specializing in administration. She was certified as an International Director at the Institute of Directors London (IoD London) in 2018. She took courses in strategic leadership at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, was certified in the PADE Senior Management Program at ESE Business School in 2009 and participated in several international courses on taxation.

She began her career at Banco Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, and then joined United Trading Company S.A. (UTC S.A.). With more than 30 years of experience in the agro-industrial sector, she was Vice-President of Finance for South America of the multinational Del Monte Fresh Produce S.A. (Chile).

Patricia has previously been a director of several companies in the fashion, retail, plastic, agricultural and real estate sectors. Currently, she is director of Hortifrut S.A. and Chairwoman of the Directors’ Committee since 2019. She is also a director of Canontex Ltda. and its subsidiaries, Italmod S.A., Cerámicas Santiago, Hotel Double Tree Vitacura and Know Hub Chile.

Francisca Moller Opazo is a Graphic Designer from the Universidad del Pacífico, as well as a Master in Graphic Design from the Academy of Art College, San Francisco, USA, and a Master in Marketing and Advertising from IED Barcelona, ​​Spain. He also has studies in business administration and management, and strategic marketing.

With more than 20 years of experience, he held several executive positions at Hortifrut, highlighting the areas of marketing and corporate events. Francisca created, in 2022, the natural and healthy products company KEFFI S.A. and, in 2023, the cosmetic products company MÖOX S.A.

Currently, in addition to being alternate director of the Corporate Board of Hortifrut S.A., she is alternate director of several subsidiaries within the group.

Piero Bacigalupo Gómez-Lobo has a degree in business administration from Universidad Católica de Valparaíso. With more than 25 years of experience in the financial area in Peru and Chile, he currently works as administration and finance manager of the Algeciras Holding, linked to the Elberg family, which participates in the real estate, financial, food and automotive sectors in America, Europe and Asia.

Additionally, today he holds the position of administration and finance manager of Baninter, a shareholder group of Banco Internacional and is a director at Mundocredito and Europarts, substitute director at Autosummit, and has led and leads various group projects.

María Cristina Effa Raggio is a Civil Industrial Engineer and has a Master in Engineering Sciences from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He is currently Development and Investment Manager at Torca Family Office.

María Cristina has more than 20 years of work experience. Before joining Torca, she was Director of Strategic Planning and Revenue Management at Grupo El Mercurio. Previously he held various executive positions at Latam Airlines, mainly within the strategic and planning areas.

Guillermo is a Lawyer, graduated from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú in Lima, and attended the Master in Business Administration Program at Deusto University in San Sebastián, Spain.

He is a seasoned senior executive with extensive leadership experience in complex multinational environments, driving digital platforms and user-centered business initiatives to accelerate skills and people performance across global organizations. He joined the faculty of Advantere Business School in Madrid, Spain in August 2022, and balances his time advising unicorns and early stage digital platform ventures (BetterUp, Beamery, FutureFit, Emerge and Reach Capital).

Most recently, Guillermo was Boeing’s Chief Learning Officer and Senior Vice President of  Leadership Development. Before joining Boeing in February 2021, he was IBM’s Global Head of CSR and President of the IBM Foundation. He also previously held roles as IBM’s Chief Learning Officer, the first People and Talent Head (CHRO) for the newly chartered IBM Digital Business Group.

Along with his day-to-day business responsibilities, Guillermo launched the Digital Learning Consortium in 2017 and was actively advising innovation projects with top tier clients to shape the people and talent initiatives at the core of business digital reinvention, in collaboration with IBM Consulting. Guillermo also previously served as the CHRO of the InterAmerican Development Bank Group. Based in Washington D.C., he had overall responsibility for people processes and organizational development initiatives for all Bank operations across Latin America and the Caribbean.

He is a proud Latino leader and volunteers on initiatives to provide access to education and STEM skills for underserved communities. He serves on the Board of Directors of Magis Americas.

Arturo is an Agricultural Engineer from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso and has specialized studies in negotiation, finance and corporate governance.

Arturo has 14 years of work experience, 9 of which have been outside Chile, first as Import Manager for Origin Fruit Direct, a fresh fruit importing company based in Holland with a subsidiary office in China. He later assumed the position of Commercial Manager of Agrícola Don Ricardo, a leading Peruvian company in the production and export of fruits. He has actively participated in the creation of commercial platforms in the United States, Continental Europe and England and has been a member of union boards in Peru. In his positions he has led innovation projects, with emphasis on the digitalization of processes and management control.

Today he serves as General Manager and Co-founder of Onesta.

Mauricio Czelusniak is a mechanical engineer from the Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná (Brazil), holds a Master’s degree in engineering from the Université de Technologie de Compiègne (France), and a MBA from McGill University (Canada). He has been alternate director of Hortifrut S.A. since June 2023.

He has 13 years of experience in the natural resources, oil and gas, energy, renewable energy and agriculture industries, both in operating companies and in multinational investment funds. Since 2021, he has been Senior Manager, Natural Resources at PSP Investments.

Mauricio also represents PSP Investments on other portfolio entities in Latin America, including investments in the row crop, permanent crop and timber sectors.

Marc Drouin joined PSP Investments in 2011 and is currently Senior Managing Director, Real Assets and Global Head of Natural Resources Investments. Prior to joining PSP Investments, he was head of Group Business Development, Americas, at Anglo American Plc., Vice President of Corporate Development at Alcan Inc. and held investment and merchant banking positions principally related to cross border mergers and acquisitions.

Marc’s current board positions include Mosaic Forest Management and Kaingaroa Timberlands.

He received a Bachelor of Commerce degree from McGill University and holds a Master of Business Administration from York University. He has an ICD.D designation from the Institute of Corporate Directors.