DAABON
Santiago Vives Castro is an experienced professional in operations and business development, currently serving as Jefe de operaciones de almacén and Audit Coordinator at DAABON since March 2022. In addition, Santiago co-founded Hecho en Casa SM, a platform that promotes local gastronomic and artisanal products. Santiago previously led agricultural management at Vives Castro S.A.S., focusing on a 50-hectare banana project and implementing KPIs for productivity improvement. Santiago's early career included roles as a Project Developer Intern at Fyffes and a Business Summer Intern at bicion business transformation. Santiago holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from IE University, attained in 2020.
DAABON
Headquartered in Santa Marta, Colombia, DAABON is a food solutions company that offers a variety of organic crops in a vertically integrated scenario, operated by the second generation of the Davila Abondano family. Our agriculture ranges from mountain crops such as Coffee, Hass avocado to flatlands where our bananas and palm oil are grown. We are home to a special environment in the northern tip of Colombia, in South America, where the snowy peaks of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and the Caribbean Sea collide. We seldom have rainfall in the area, but our short and abundant rivers provide water for our fertile lands. Our territory is diverse: some are smallholders, some are indigenous, and some african-colombians, but we all share the vision of development through consolidation, growth and economic prosperity. As a company believe, we have the responsibility to set examples to leverage positive changes in the region, and this task is a challenging one while using palm oil as a model of responsible agriculture. From the Soil to the Market