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RICHNERMartin
Director -UCF
M
artin J. Richner is a Regional Exports Manager of Spedag Interfreight
who has also has made a great contribution to the coffee industry. He
is one of the founders of Ugacof Ltd (Uganda), Rwacof (Rwanda) and Tancof
(Tanzania), all members of SUCAFINA Group. He was actively involved in
developing innovations in Logistics for this Coffee Group in this landlocked
country which spread to the entire coffee industry. Martin then moved to
Interfreight (Panalpina) which later merged with Spedag to form Spedag
Interfreight.
Mr. Richner with other coffee enthusiastic back in 1995/96 came together
and formed the Uganda Coffee Trade Federation and has been a committed
member of UCF up to today.
HEMISH, Dave
DirectorUCF
H
emish Dave, is the Coffee Head of Export Trading Group in Uganda. He
holds a Bachelors’ Degree with honours inMechanical Engineering and a
Masters’ of Science in International BusinessManagement fromUniversity of
Nottingham.
He has worked in the commodity business for the past 5 years and has rich
exposure in the supply chain of commodities both in Africa and South East
Asia.
NUWAGABA, John
DirectorUCF
J
ohn Nuwagaba has been the General Manager and Board Secretary of
Ankole Coffee Producers Coop Union since 2008. Before that, he worked
with (i) Union Export Services Ltd from 1995 until 2007, where he was
in charge of procurement and coffee processing, (ii) Uganda Cooperative
Alliance from 1991 to 1994 as an Assistant Project Manager and (iii) World
Vision International [1989 – 1990] as Project Manager. Mr. Nuwagaba holds
a Degree in Economic and Political Science and a Post Graduate Diploma in
Business Management plus other short courses inmanagement.
John isacoffee farmerwhich iswell-maintainedandservesasademonstration
farm. He owns a coffee nursery which has distributed over 2,000,000
seedlings with CWDr Mother garden. He has championed the distribution of
plastic dryingmats to 4,000 farmers to promote coffee quality and through
his management, ACPU was awarded the outstanding achievement as the
most compliant exporter (Quality) for the coffee year 2012/2013.
PASSEMIERBERNET
Jean-Emmanuel
DirectorUCF
J
ean-Emmanuel trained inengineeringandfinance inFranceandUKbefore
joining the coffee industry in 2010. He was a Finance Director in Moshi
with Taylor Winch Tanzania and later joined Louis Dreyfus Commodities in
2013 as CountryManager.
