Leonardo Raul Berridi is Adecoagro's VP of Business Development and, prior to the company's reorganization, had been its Country Manager for Brazil since the beginning of its Brazilian operations; he has been a member of senior management since 2004. He has over 38 years of international experience in agricultural business. Before joining Adecoagro he was Vice President of Pago Viejo S.A., an Argentine agriculture and dairy-farming company, and served as COO of Epasa (Exportadora de Productos Agrarios S.A.), a tobacco producer and exporter, and as Production Manager of World Wide Tobacco Espana S.A. He holds a degree in Forestry Engineering from the Universidad Nacional de La Plata.