Renato Seraphim
Business Strategist / CEO
Ciarama Máquinas John Deere
Renato Seraphim is an agronomist who graduated from Unesp Jaboticabal (SP). He completed a postgraduate degree in Marketing from FGV and has several specialist degrees in agribusiness from PENSA - USP, FDC, INSEAD and Purdue University.
With 25 years of experience in agribusiness, through working for leading companies in the crop protection industry and plant biotechnology where he performed various functions, such as R&D, technical support, sales and marketing, along with activities related to Brazil and Latin America.
In recent years, he helped to develop Brazil’s distribution system and introduced his companys strategy to the Brazilian market, with the aim of restructuring and achieving market leadership in the region.
In 2016, Seraphim took on a new challenge, when he became President of Albaugh Brazil, where he proposed mergers, drafted appropriate strategies and made Albaugh a leading crop protection company in Brazil.
From April 2019, Renato accepted a new offer from the private equity firm, Aqua Capital, and is leading the distribution operations of Agro inputs in the south of Brasil, through Agro100 with over 40 stores and Agroferrari with eight stores, along with over 200 agronomists providing services and technical assistance to growers.
Seraphim is part of the Board Member Council of FEARP-USP, Board Member of Tecno S/A and mentor for some Agtechs as For farmers / Izagro and 6th Grain.