Stardust does disruptive advisory and investments transforming humanity. I advise companies, NGOs DAOs and development organisations on how to, through leveraging technology, design, implement and scale solutions in access to finance for the poorest people in the world, namely, micro-entrepreneurs and smallholder farmers in Asia, Africa and Latin America. I'm also looking into how we can use tools from crypto/web3 and from the ability to explore our own inner world that psychedelics bring, to catalyse transformative change at scale.

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Catalina set-up from scratch the global Sustainability Department at NKG (the largest coffee trading group in the world) which has grown now to more than 200 professionals worldwide. • She led the group towards a vision of going beyond traditional ESG into having transformational positive impact through its business and ending poverty in its supply chains. Manifesting this, she led the launch of NKG BLOOM as the group´s global sustainable sourcing strategy, focusing on transforming the lives of smallholder coffee farmers in Asia, Africa and Latin America, through the provision of bundled and digitally-enabled services that allows them to run their farms at full potential and enter a pathway out of poverty; while at the same time enabling the group to increase it´s volumes of coffee sourced from key origins and develop traceable coffee supply chains.• Led the deployment of the strategy in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Honduras, Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Vietnam and India.• Led the negotiation and ultimate close of a first-of-its-kind blended finance $25 million revolving credit facility to back the portfolio of loans of NKG to smallholder farmers with two multilaterals and three European banks that now absorb 90% of the risk of defaults from farmers.• Created and managed key global partnerships for NKG, including with local and national governments, USAID, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, DFID, IDH- The Sustainable Trade Initiative, FMO, Yara International, Mastercard Foundation and Mastercard Inc.• Together with the Corporate Communications team, developed and led the implementation of the group´s communications strategy on sustainability.

Technoserve has won the award of most impactful global non-profits for various consecutive years.• Catalina managed Technoserve’s operations in Colombia, leading a team of 15 professionals.• Led business development activities and managed partnerships with multinationals such as Nestle and Walmart, as well as non-profit donors such as the Inter-American Development Bank and the Ford Foundation.• Responsible for new program development in the South America region and Mexico.

Contactar is Colombia's largest rural microfinance institution.

As the global leader in microfinance investment fund management, BlueOrchardoversees debt and equity investments of close to USD 1 billion in 42 developing countries.• Responsible for a USD 110 million portfolio of loans to 18 microfinance institutions in Colombia, Ecuador and Bolivia. • Participated in the 11-person team that structured and sold a USD 109 million securitization of loans to microfinance institutions, which a won the Financial Times-IFC “Sustainable Deal of the Year Award” in 2007.• Together with the Senior Analyst for the region, planned and executed the set up and consolidation of the company’s South America satellite office in Lima.