Key Speakers
H.E. Dr. Ali El Moselhy
Minister for Supply and International Trade
Government of Egypt
Tim Worledge
Managing Editor
Fastmarkets
Tim Worledge
Managing Editor
Fastmarkets
Tim is a co-founder and director of the company, who has joint responsibility for the strategic direction of the company. A former director at S&P Global Platts, Tim led the agriculture reporting team that was instrumental in the development of the Black Sea swaps market and has been at the forefront of price reporting for 10 years. He was also responsible for Platts’ benchmark biofuels assessments, including global ethanol benchmarks. Before moving into agriculture, Tim was an oil market pricing expert focusing on the European refined product markets.
Tarek Ibrahim
Global Commodities Director
Wheat Supply Emergency Response Project
Tarek Ibrahim
Global Commodities Director
Wheat Supply Emergency Response Project
Tarek Ibrahim is a highly skilled Global Commodity Director who works as a senior wheat advisor in the World Bank’s emergency response program. He has over 26 years of experience in Grain Trading (Corn, Wheat, Soybean, and Barley), marketing, and management. His experience spans across a vast range of commodities, including Futures, Options, By-Products, FMCG, and Food Security. Throughout his professional life, He is proud to have been the world’s largest barley trader between 2011 and 2018, trading an impressive 65 MMT.
Cezar Gheorghe
Founder
AGRIColumn
Cezar Gheorghe
Founder
AGRIColumn
Cezar is a senior professional and expert analyst with over 20 years of experience in the grain market. He previously held the positions of Managing Director, CEO, Head of Trading, in private companies such as Cargill, Ameropa, Bunge, Agricover as well as in Chimpex, the largest port operator in Constanta. With a wide area of expertise from grain and oilseed trade to budget development, contract negotiations, corporate reorganization, operations and profit management, creation of business models and risk management systems, Cezar holds solid business knowledge, which he put into practice throughout his career. Today, Cezar is the founder of the AGRIColumn company, which generates added value services in agribusiness through consultancy, market reports, education, risk management etc. A graduate of the faculty of International Relations and European Studies, Cezar continued his professional training by participating in trainings and conferences in Europe, USA, Canada. Cezar is GAFTA certified since 2004 in the following fields: contractual rules, contracts and the resolution of contractual disputes. Currently Cezar is also an adviser to the Romanian Minister of Agriculture.
Bachar Said Boubess
CEO
Modern Mills of Lebanon
Bachar Said Boubess
CEO
Modern Mills of Lebanon
CEO of Modern Mills of Lebanon since 1990 Holds a BBA from Schiller University UK class of 1978 A 2nd Generation Flour Miller & Grain Importer. Partner and member of the Board of Directors at Crown Flour Mills and Bekaa Mills. Group of Boubess-Mansour constituting more than 30% of the Local Lebanese market. Established a trading company dealing in bakery accessories representing LeSaffre amongst others. One of the founding members of IAOM Mena region year 1988.
Walid Diab Ghanem
Chairman
Egyptian Millers Company
Yehia Elshafei
CEO
United Oil
Emad A. Al Tarawneh
General Manager
Jordan Silos & Supply General Co.
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Local Standard
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International Standard
If your country is based outside of Africa, Lebanon or Jordan
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Silver Sponsor
MK Merchants SA - is an international trading company with Middle East and Asia subsidiaries. Our strategic locations and reach allow us to offer prompt shipping/logistical solutions across all continents.
Bronze Sponsor
Over the past 26 years Cerealcom has invested heavily in agriculture and we now stand as one the leading domestically owned agricultural commodity producers in Romania. We cultivate over 25 thousand hectares in one of the most fertile regions of Romania and we produce over 200 thousand tonnes of quality NON- GMO grains and oilseed including; wheat, barley, corn, sunflower seed and rapeseed.
Farming is at the heart of our business, however through our network of over 600 thousand tonnes of storage capacity across Romania Cerealcom also originates 1MMT of grains and oilseeds and 100 thousand tonnes of storage capacity in the port of Constanta allows Cerealcom trade around 1-1.2MMT tonnes of commodities annually which we supply to end users on either a FOB or a CIF basis. Because we produce our own cereals Cerealcom can ensure the quality, uniformity, traceability and certification the consumer demands which makes Cerealcom a reliable counterparty the consumer can trust.
Geographical proximity has meant the Middle East, North Africa and Europe has been our target market however we see real growth potential in Asian markets, and we are always open to new mutually beneficial opportunities where our products can be competitive and where consumers appreciate our quality commodities.
QSS Global is an international fully certified marine surveying and inspection services provider with headquarters in Geneva and numerous branches worldwide. Our core services are:
· Inspection
· Certification
· Verification
Our patented IT QSS Platform contains real-time information, certificates, reports, correspondence, and photos and videos of inspections, which can be accessed 24/7.
Exhibitor Sponsor
Atria Brokers is a full-service commodity and freight brokerage company, providing market guidance, 24/7 customer support and innovative trading solutions. Founded in 2014 by 3 different brokers. Now a rapidly growing company, which consists of commodity and freight brokers, as well as executive staff. We have two operating offices - one in Ukraine (Kiev) and one in Turkey (Istanbul). We deal with crops: wheat, corn, barley, feed peas, sunflower seeds, soybeans, rapeseeds, sorghum, sunflower meal, soybean meal, sunflower seeds, vegetable oils, etc.
Egyptian Australian Co for Trading Agency, Based on Agencies for International supplier Companies into Egypt market at Gasc- Government Tenders and private sector buyers for Wheat, corn, soybeans and vegetables oils.
Ali Ramadan-Managing Director and Partner of Egyptian Australian Co.
Wael Ali. G-Manager for Marketing and Partner of Egyptian Australian Co.
Osama Mohamed-Logistics Manger of Egyptian Australian Co.
Hemdanco is a leading agro trading company that provides the local market with many goods such as sunflower meal, soybean (seeds and meal) and yellow corn all imported from the best farms around the world with the highest quality according to the largest inspection companies with an average of 400,000 tons annually to supply most of the local oil factories in Egypt,We are aiming to cooperate with companies from all over the world ..meanwhile ,we locally produce high quality of beet and beet pulp (large animal feed) to reach over 100,000 tons seasonally that are exported to many countries.
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