José Roberto Simeone
Business Manager - South America at AgriHub Inc.- Claim this Profile
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Spanish Full professional proficiency
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Portuguese Native or bilingual proficiency
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Dutch Elementary proficiency
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Bio
Sidnei O. Agapito
José Roberto is consistent and well determined on what he does. Very skilled on managing people and a very intelligent person, self motivated, team leader and demonstrates vision for new approaches in the development of new projects. He always demonstrated an excellent technical background, innovative attitude, high capability to find new opportunities and create good relationship with the customers, besides a competent way to manage the businesses. I truly recommend him!
Sidnei O. Agapito
José Roberto is consistent and well determined on what he does. Very skilled on managing people and a very intelligent person, self motivated, team leader and demonstrates vision for new approaches in the development of new projects. He always demonstrated an excellent technical background, innovative attitude, high capability to find new opportunities and create good relationship with the customers, besides a competent way to manage the businesses. I truly recommend him!
Sidnei O. Agapito
José Roberto is consistent and well determined on what he does. Very skilled on managing people and a very intelligent person, self motivated, team leader and demonstrates vision for new approaches in the development of new projects. He always demonstrated an excellent technical background, innovative attitude, high capability to find new opportunities and create good relationship with the customers, besides a competent way to manage the businesses. I truly recommend him!
Sidnei O. Agapito
José Roberto is consistent and well determined on what he does. Very skilled on managing people and a very intelligent person, self motivated, team leader and demonstrates vision for new approaches in the development of new projects. He always demonstrated an excellent technical background, innovative attitude, high capability to find new opportunities and create good relationship with the customers, besides a competent way to manage the businesses. I truly recommend him!
Experience
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AgriHub Inc.
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Canada
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Farming
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1 - 100 Employee
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Business Manager - South America
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Jul 2023 - Present
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Nedap Livestock Management
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Netherlands
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Farming
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1 - 100 Employee
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International Sales Manager
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Nov 2018 - Aug 2023
• Responsible for the Latin American operation including key account management, business partner support, marketing, export, training • Market intelligence & sales strategy • Complementary role in major turn-key modern pig farming projects • To conduct both sales and technical training with distributors’ sales personnel • Boosting data-driven livestock farming by promoting the level of technology adoption. • To be mentioned: livestock monitoring, RFID technology, cloud computing platforms, farming automation, management systems, hardware and software, IoT, data security, and sensors. • Key figures: brought the revenue from €300k to €1.2M yearly across Latin America; consciously expansion from 1 to 5 active business partners. • New challenge: To get OEM/ODM manufacturing and white-label business models to prove sustainable and scalable. Show less
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Cargill
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United States
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Food and Beverage Manufacturing
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700 & Above Employee
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Commercial and Technical Coordinator
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Apr 2016 - Jul 2017
To develop strategic action plans to win-back key accounts and recover market share. Identification of customer’s needs and apply efficiently the portfolio of solutions by grounded technical arguments • Customer performance management through the main KPI's, including digital tools application, focused on the customer's business challenges in a production level • New business opportunities based on thoroughly market mapping • Key challenge: Leading the a new exporting project from Brazilian business unit to the African market. Show less
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ADM
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United States
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Food and Beverage Manufacturing
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700 & Above Employee
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Commercial Coordinator for Animal Nutrition
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Mar 2014 - Mar 2016
To coordinate the trading operation on amino acids in South America • In-depth analysis and selection of market opportunities to launch new product lines on selected markets • Boost the Drawback modalities and regulatory affairs promoting fiscal financial earnings for customers and enabling deals with the company • Product line and customer segmentation by profitability to have a tactical positioning in the marketplace • Key project: Close collaboration on the M&A/JV in Latin America within the feed industry aiming to expand market share. Show less
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Lhoist
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Belgium
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Mining
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700 & Above Employee
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Animal Feed Sales Supervisor
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Jan 2012 - Mar 2014
Total engagement in a new startup project with major CAPEX and aggressive scale-up growth • Benchmarking, marketing campaigns, market drivers understanding, playing a strategic and influential role on the new business platform, technical trials and evaluations • Make effective connection between operational, technical and commercial areas to precise address the customer demands • The CalcioFeed® brand was the add-value product developed • Key goal: Within 18 months after commissioning we managed to grab over 30% market share with net sales of €2.0M Show less
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Metachem - Part of Barentz
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Brazil
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Chemical Manufacturing
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1 - 100 Employee
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Technical and Commercial Assistant
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May 2010 - Dec 2011
Technical/commercial support to premixers, feed mills, dairy, poultry, swine, pet, fish and beef cattle industries • Responsible for marketing and technical support management on functional feed ingredients for performance improvement in animal production, such as organic acids, probiotic, MCFA and enzymes, and palatability enhancers • Preservatives for ensure feed shelf-life, promote gut health and improve performance in animal production. Technical/commercial support to premixers, feed mills, dairy, poultry, swine, pet, fish and beef cattle industries • Responsible for marketing and technical support management on functional feed ingredients for performance improvement in animal production, such as organic acids, probiotic, MCFA and enzymes, and palatability enhancers • Preservatives for ensure feed shelf-life, promote gut health and improve performance in animal production.
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Fundação Mokiti Okada
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Brazil
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Non-profit Organizations
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1 - 100 Employee
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Technical Assistant
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Jan 2008 - 2010
Technical consulting and training for organic farmers or in process of transformation to • Developing alternative systems of food production based on the lower input concept • Collaboration on the certification process for organic production farming Technical consulting and training for organic farmers or in process of transformation to • Developing alternative systems of food production based on the lower input concept • Collaboration on the certification process for organic production farming
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Education
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Maastricht School of Management
Master of Business Administration - MBA -
Universidade de São Paulo
Bachelor's of Animal Science