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Name: Clay Gordon (claygordon)
Organization:
TheChocolateLife.com
Expertise:
consumers, business development services
Countries of interest:
Latin America
Biography:
I first became interested in chocolate, professionally, in 1994 and began actively working in the field in 1998. I started publishing chocophile.com in 2001 and had a book published, Discover Chocolate, in 2007. In early 2008 I created the online community TheChocolateLife.com, which now has over...
Name: Joe Fisher (Joe Fisher)
Organization:
Hotel Chocolat
Expertise:
farmers & production, productivity & quality, transparency, consumers
Countries of interest:
Netherlands, United Kingdom
Name: Julie Fisher (Julie Fisher)
Organization:
Coffee etc./De SmaakRepubliek
Expertise:
consumers
Countries of interest:
Asia, Latin America, Europe, Netherlands
Biography:
9 years now as a retailer of chocolate, coffee and tea. During those 9 years we have championed Quality, Fairtrade and Bio chocolate products in a market expecting cheap products. We introduced Zotter (Fairtrade and Bio) to the Dutch market, and are the sole importers of Coppeneur (Bio) and The...
Name: Martin Christy (Martin Christy)
Organization:
Direct Cacao
Expertise:
access to markets, future cocoa farmers, transparency, consumers, certification
Countries of interest:
Other, Ecuador, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Peru, Panama, Venezuela, United Kingdom, Canada, United States
Biography:
Martin Christy is Founder and Editor of fine chocolate review website Seventy%. He is a leading voice in the fine chocolate industry, passionate about the promotion and preservation of fine chocolate and fine cacao, and supporting those who produce them. Martin runs sensorial workshops and tastings...
Name: Harm van Oudenhoven (Harm van Oudenhoven)
Organization:
Zoen Chocolate & El Castillo del Cacao
Expertise:
access to markets, consumers, markets & policies, private sector policies, public-private partnerships
Countries of interest:
Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, Kenya, Indonesia, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago, Bolivia, Suriname, Netherlands, United States
Biography:
In 2004 I established El Castillo del Cacao s.a., a small chocolate factory in Matagalpa, Nicaragua. The company sells chocolate bars throughout Nicaragua and Central America. In Sri Lanka I established Hansa Coffee, a premium national coffee brand. In the Netherlands I have recently established...
Name: Saskia Samama (swsamama)
Organization:
Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate
Expertise:
farmers & production, chains & relations, consumers, certification, public-private partnerships
Countries of interest:
Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Cameroon, Indonesia, Vietnam, Brazil, Ecuador, Dominican Republic, Peru, Europe, United States
Biography:
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