Our structure is circular or role-based. Its strength is based on the interrelatedness of our team network that is supported and enriched by the diversity of each member’s strengths.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Our Board of Directors is our decision-making body with the authority to conduct and manage our business, and thus is responsible for defining our general business policies and overall strategy, including our long-term strategies.

Our board of directors has designated three committees: the Audit Committee, the Compensation Committee and the Capital Commitment Committee. Click here for a description of each.

MANAGEMENT TEAM

Leadership lies with the CEO, who is seconded by a group of Executive Officers and Directors with specific corporate objectives. Together they work to manage the teams and strategies that are in place in each country.

Each regional management team has specific country experience in the country it oversees. We recruit and develop local and regional management teams to which we delegate responsibility for functions such as implementation of the annual crop plan, identification of new farms, technology selection, coordination and supervision of production.

Our culture promotes a commitment to excellence, ethical practices and organizational innovation. The objectives of our people are aligned with our strategy, goals and mission, which we believe will maximize results. 

Business and Support Units

Business Units geographically ordered and intertwined with Support Units, serve to operate the business.

Led by the Country Manager and by each BU leader, Business Units deal with production in each region, sharing a high level of autonomy and interdependence with each other. Business Units are organized into one unit leader, seconded by administrative support, technical follow-up and heads of regions and zones who visit the fields on a daily basis to ensures that, even at a large scale, all the available knowledge is applied in order to maximize yields at planted hectare level.

Business Units organization and structure enables EL TEJAR to easily expand operations by adding new farming units without incurring substantial up-front or fixed costs, increasing efficiency and ensuring that best practices are applied across all farms.

Support Units provide those services that are common to all regions. Also leaded by experienced managers with many years in EL TEJAR, they are responsible for sales and logistics, production administration, technology, accounting and administration, finance and budgeting, IT, persons development, quality, farm development and community commitment.

Operating Committees

EL TEJAR has created committees in order to achieve greater interaction among our sectors, and as a result improve our decision-making process: the Quality Committee and the Price Committee. Click here for a description of each.