… for managing and executing Preferred by Nature's Forestry services in the United States which includes monitoring a …

Ouattara is an agricultural engineer with more than 10 years’ experience in sustainable agriculture, especially in providing technical support for cooperatives and exporters. In 2013, she started working for the Rainforest Alliance business unit, RA-Cert, …

Thao also acts as a representative of Preferred by Nature with agriculture stakeholders. He is in charge of promoting Preferred by Nature’s public image and reputation. Thao began his career in the National Institute of Medicinal Materials in Vietnam. He …

Guangxin works with the Quality and Assurance teams to ensure successful and efficient maintenance of third-party accreditations, serving as a liaison with accreditation bodies for auditing, inquiries and other accreditation issues. Guangxin has over 11 …

… are to prepare bookkeeping documents, record financial transactions in Preferred by Nature ’s finance … in the preparation and submission of various accounting and financial reports. …

Jakob is a member of Preferred by Nature’s executive management group. He is a specialist in Sustainable Tropical Forest Management, including Community Forest Management, Forest Certification, Timber Legality, Agroforestry and Forest Monitoring. He has …

Jess has more than 20 years of experience in logistics and administrative duties, whereby she worked for 10 years in a non-profit organisation. She is familiar with the EU Timber Regulation (EUTR), Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) and …

Leonid graduated from the Forestry Department of Kharkiv National Agricultural University, Ukraine. After graduating from his postgraduate degree at the Ukrainian Research Institute of Forestry and Forest Melioration, he worked at the institute for more …

… Linda provides accounting and financial support to all Preferred by Nature legal entities … She is a highly organised and seasoned accounting and financial specialist, with more than ten (10) years’ experience working in diverse financial roles while carrying out a wide range of …

… Throughout her career, she has freelanced for several certification bodies including Rainforest Alliance’s …

… She has over 9 years of experience in the financial and administrative management of multinational … In her current position, she is responsible for the financial management of international projects which includes day-to-day financial management, budgets monitoring, communication with …

Prior to joining Preferred by Nature, Gabriel worked as a Forest Engineer at the Polytechnical University of Valencia. He had also worked in the Spanish Confederation of Woodworking Industries, from 2009 to 2013. In this role, he provided technical …

Joris has experience with FSC and PEFC Chain of Custody and Forest Management certification with from his earlier career in the Netherlands and Suriname, where he worked with sourcing sustainable timber from South America and with sustainable forest …

James is a Senior Specialist in Forestry with Preferred by Nature and a Registered Professional Forester in Ontario with over 8 years of experience in forest and resource management. James has been with Preferred by Nature since 2020, having completed ISO …

… is responsible for planning and conducting Chain of Custody certification assessments. Michal studied Environmental …

… Nhi prepares financial statements for Preferred by Nature. Occasionally, … In this role, she was responsible for reviewing companies’ financial statements. Subsequently, she took a different … Controller in a bank. In this role, she learned about the financial health of a company the bank’s perspective.   Nhi …

Violeta has a degree in forest engineering from the Agrarian National University (UNALM) in Perú. She began her career in the Peruvian Forestry Research Institute where she conducted a diversity of studies and monitored plantations and natural forests in …

Marimuthuram began his career working for the USAID Forest PLUS program as a Research Associate. In this role, he travelled extensively in India, having project landscapes in Sikkim, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka, to implement monitoring, …

Carmen, a biologist by training, is our Senior Lead Auditor with a focus on Sustainable Agriculture services in El Salvador and other Latin American countries. She conducts audits for Preferred by Nature’s agriculture services, including scheduling audit, …

… supports for the development of agricultural certification services especially in El Salvador as well as Latin American …