Team

Joshua Simangunsong

Co-Founder

Joshua has 5+ years in the finance industry as an investment banking analyst and consultant. He has provided clients the expertise required to close a funding transaction with favorable terms and conditions. He has consulted founders and corporate management teams in the agriculture and technology industry to execute their strategic objectives. He then pursued work in international development as a Peace Corps volunteer in Peru for a year, working with smallholder farmers maximizing their income by improving the coffee supply chain and quality of the coffee.

M.A. in International Economics & Finance at Johns Hopkins SAIS

B.S. in Finance at Loyola Marymount University

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Victor Ganoza

Joshua Simangunsong

CMO

Victor is a former Country Director of TechnoServe of Honduras and Peru. He has 30+ years of hands-on experience in rural development regions and management of agricultural and livestock-based businesses involving different types of producers. He has overlooked thousands of smallholder farmers in the fields of coffee, cacao, and tropic

CMO

Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics at North Carolina State University
M.B.A. at Michigan State University

M.S. Food Science and Technology at Michigan State University

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Board of Advisors

Gina Canales

Gina is a Sustainability Manager of Green Coffee in Latin America and Jacobs Douwe Egberts, the largest pure-play coffee and tea company, and has been in the agriculture industry for 10+ years. She has worked with coffee farmers in South America including Honduras and Peru in the coffee industry. Her work with educating smallholder farmers has helped thousands of smallholder farmers perform the best agricultural practices, generating more yields.

M.S. Agricultural Education & Communication at the University of Florida

B.S. in Agriculture at Escuela Agricola El Zamorano in Honduras

Alan Fetzer

Gina Canales

Alan Fetzer is an industry-agnostic investment banker and consultant for emerging growth companies for 20+ years. He works closely with HNW individuals and founders to help grow their companies and raise capital. He has successfully taken numerous companies public and raised +$100mn in capital, both debt and equity, in his career. His goal is to structure financing instruments that maximize shareholder value and provide corporate management teams with the capital and flexibility required to execute their strategic objectives.

B.S. in Economics at Yale University

Greg Tanaka

Gina Canales

Greg Tanaka

Greg Tanaka is the Founder and CEO of Percolata. A FaaS (Forecast as a Service) that uses machine learning to help organizations in consumer products make better marketing and operating decisions. He has raised $10mn for his venture through Google Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, and Menlo Ventures.

M.S. in Computer Science at Berkeley University