Jorge Silva

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Field Operations | Agribusiness | Supply Chain | Agricultural Management | Continuous Improvement | Innovation | Digital Transformation | ESG @ East-West Seed
nonthaburi, nonthaburi, thailand
Jorge Silva's Location
Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil, Brazil
About Jorge Silva

• Executive with more than 20 years of professional experience in different positions, since quality assurance until manufacturing, involving field and Sites operations.• Solid knowledge about Agribusiness such as Cereals´ Seeds production and Orange production.• Large experience with leadership, supply chain, digital transformation, teams management, for more than 20 years. • Agronomist engineer with specialization in agricultural industry management and Black belt certification.• Portuguese native, fluent English, including 5 months assignment in the USA.

Jorge Silva's Current Company Details
East-West Seed

East-West Seed

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Field Operations | Agribusiness | Supply Chain | Agricultural Management | Continuous Improvement | Innovation | Digital Transformation | ESG
nonthaburi, nonthaburi, thailand
Website:
eastwestseed.com
Employees:
1008
Jorge Silva Work Experience Details
  • East-West Seed
    Seeds Operations Latam Head
    East-West Seed Sep 2024 - Present
    Brasil
  • Citrosuco
    Head Of Field Operations
    Citrosuco Nov 2018 - Dec 2023
    Matão, São Paulo, Brazil
    Responsible for 25 production farms around São Paulo State. Report to COO and leadership of 4,000 people. • Budget and Capex Management.• Part of Supply chain management (guarantee the demand attendance).• Multicultural team work. I have 6 direct reports on this current role, and 3000 indirect employees. • People management and development. • Strategic review of the operation structure.• Digital transformation in the field operation, using digital technologies implementation such as Telemetry, IoTs, Drones scanning, Advanced analytics, Predictive models for plagues and disease control.• Cost reduction using OEE concept in order to improve the operations efficiency. • Expansion Projects of planting new Groves and irrigation projects for them in 3 consecutive years (US$ 150 million).
  • Syngenta
    Latin America Parent Seeds Manager
    Syngenta Feb 2015 - Nov 2018
    Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil
    Responsible for 4 Sites of Parent Seeds Production and 2 tollers (Spread across Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, and Mexico). Leadership of 60 people, including 6 direct reports (4 in Brazil and 2 Argentina).• Supply chain management (Delivery of the seeds with quality, on time with low costs).• Leadership of multicultural team, spread across 4 countries. • Seeds´ planning transformation project in order to be more efficient to deliver the parent seeds in the main countries of Latam.• Brazil cost efficiency increase the yield switching the production regions and timing to produce.• Management of the Site expansion project (all projects design and approval), US$17 million.
  • Syngenta Seeds
    Latin America Quality Control Manager
    Syngenta Seeds Sep 2013 - Jan 2015
    Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil
    Leadership of a multicultural team, including 4 direct reports (2 in Brazil, 1 in Argentina and 1 in Colombia).• Implementation of the Quality assurance culture within all the Seeds production team at LATAM.• Assurance of the Product quality including 3 labs and field quality.• Budget control and management.• Investments studies and implementation.
  • Monsanto Company
    Production Research And Quality Brazil Leader
    Monsanto Company Nov 2012 - Aug 2013
    Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil
    Responsible for all production research in Brazil supporting around of 6 million bags of Corn and Sorghum Production and also in charge of the field quality assurance and Labs (Physiological and Genetics) in Brazil territory. Leadership of 3 managers and 2 supervisors.
  • Monsanto Company
    Plant Manager
    Monsanto Company Jun 2009 - Nov 2012
    Paracatu, Minas Gerais, Brazil
    Responsible for Seeds production in the field and conditioning in Paracatu region, including field planning, contracts, budget, maintenance and expansions projects, administrative reports. Leadership of a Site expansion project approval at Monsanto (U$ 70 million). • Growth of around of 20k ha per year (2 million bags of finished good), representing 30% of Monsanto’s total production. • ESH Global Award for production´s Site (Paracatu-MG 2010).
  • Monsanto
    Supervisor De Campo
    Monsanto Aug 2003 - May 2009
    Responsible for Budget and Forecast of field production, planning and contract fields for seeds production and also management of agronomist and technician development.
  • Monsanto Company
    Agronomo De Campo
    Monsanto Company Aug 2002 - Jul 2003
    Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil
    Responsible for implementing and evaluating the trials to recommend the bests production local, planting window and nicking for corn and sorghum seeds fields. Management of field inspections in order to guarantee genetic purity standards.

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Jorge Silva works for East-West Seed

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Jorge Silva's current role is Field Operations | Agribusiness | Supply Chain | Agricultural Management | Continuous Improvement | Innovation | Digital Transformation | ESG.

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Jorge Silva attended University Of Warwick, Universidade Federal De Uberlândia, Universidade Federal De Lavras.

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