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The team
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Manoo established the business in partnership with his brother in 1979, after a decade spent trading commodities (including raw cashews and sesame seeds as well as coffee) in the family business in Tanzania. His commodity trading experience spans more than 40 years, helping to provide a solid basis for the company’s expansion. |
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Chandrika has helped support the business for several decades, playing a valuable role in HR and operational activities. She has a particular flair for keeping the company’s expanding team motivated. She is also an experienced office administrator, making sure that everything runs like clockwork. |
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Rupen has more than 20 years of experience within the global coffee business. He has been the force behind the company’s global expansion, building on the company’s historic success in East Africa. One of his main accomplishments has been to achieve success in Russia starting from scratch. He has led Equatorial Traders to be firmly established as a respected global player in the international coffee market. |
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Sona is a lecturer in law at City Law School and has more than 15 years of highprofile legal experience. She started her career working in a legal practice before building her corporate experience with Blockbuster Entertainment and then moving into the academic world. Her role is to provide Equatorial Traders with any immediate legal advice needed and to ensure that the company complies with its statutory requirements in a timely manner. |
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Jagdish keeps tight control over the company’s Finance function. He applies his extensive accounting experience to monitor the company’s exposure and cash flow throughout the trading life cycle. Jagdish makes sure that appropriate management controls are in place at all times and liaises with the company’s auditors. He also monitors that suppliers are paid on time to ensure that Equatorial Traders maintains its impeccable payments record. Jagdish has 14 years of experience in the coffee business. |
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Marek has a strong background in economics and business management. He has accumulated 8 years of experience in the commodities sector, including 4 years at Equatorial Traders. He is responsible for logistics which includes taking charge of all warehousing and transportation activities. He conducts all the necessary administration including document management. Marek is also an enthusiastic member of the cupping team and a skilled coffee taster. |
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Ognjen graduated in business from Birmingham University and also has an MBA from the prestigious SDA Bocconi Management School in Milan. Coffee trading runs in his family (his father was a coffee trader) and he has 6 years of experience in the coffee business, including an internship at Bernhard Rothfos in Hamburg and several years in speciality coffee shops while working for Greenet in Serbia. Ognjen is responsible for hedging the company’s financial exposure and producing daily market reports combining technical and fundamental analysis. He is also involved in business development for new customers in Eastern European markets. |
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Before joining Equatorial Traders, Gary worked in Papua New Guinea within the coffee business of Monpi Exports, part of ECOM Agroindustrial Corporation. At Equatorial Traders he is setting up certification programmes for sustainable coffee across the entire supply chain. He is also leveraging his extensive contacts in Africa and Asia to develop trading relationships with growers in those key markets. Finally, Gary assists in tracking shipments and handling samples for quality control purposes. |
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Walter worked as a banker with Standard Chartered in Africa for many years, including stints in Ghana and Nigeria. He has been working with Equatorial Traders as a consultant for 8 years, sharing his special expertise in handling the peculiar documentation requirements of the Russian market. He is also particularly skilled in handling all aspects of insurance (including ocean insurance, cargo insurance and claims). |
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