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Meet Mónica Lozano of La Rifa Chocolatería

A psychologist from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. For several years she has dedicated herself to learning, sharing, and feeling the culture of cacao and chocolate. She co-founded La...

Meet Paul Bup and members of the Fire Mountain team

Paul Bup, The Cameroon Chocolate Manufacturer is a Co-Founder and Director of Fire Mountain Ltd, a luxury chocolate company specialising in single-origin chocolate, made from cacao grown and ethica...

Meet Cristina Castellanos Stephens & Vera Geling

Vera is one of the driving forces behind Into Choco, a Dutch-based startup building a transparency and communications tool for craft chocolate businesses. Cristina’s in charge of communications at ...

Meet Donna Wise

Donna L. Wise has built her career in sales, marketing and strategy development across multiple industries. Donna is adept at assessing growth potential and formulating strategies to drive measurab...

Meet Lauren Adler

Lauren Adler is a pioneer in the craft chocolate industry with over a decade of experience introducing consumers to fine chocolate. She was the founder of Seattle retail store Chocolopolis and she ...

Meet Rodney North

Rodney North is a business management and marketing consultant, with afocus on small-scale, food-based businesses, cooperatives and socialenterprises. Formerly he was the marketing director for the...

Meet Jeanne Donkoh, Bioko Treats, Ghana

After retiring from a long and successful corporate career, Jeanne Donkoh, founded Bioko Chocolates, with a vision to produce quality, handcrafted chocolate confections in Ghana, an untapped, local...

Meet Leslie Agyare - Three Mountain Cocoa

Leslie Agyare is the Founder and CEO of Three Mountains Cocoa (TMC). After a successful twenty-year career in hospitality in the UK, he decided to leverage his experience, knowledge and disposition...

Meet Thalia Hohenthal - Guittard Chocolate Company

Many of you may already know Thalia Hohenthal the Technical Service Manager at Guittard Chocolate Company. We are excited and delighted that she will be the presenter for the Empowering Chocopreneu...

Meet Ms. Sundari Ganesan

Ms. Sundari Ganesan is the founder and CEO of Nextgen Consulting Inc. in  Atlanta, Georgia. She has more than 3 decades of experience in the IT industry. Apart from the 15+ years of Project Managem...