Who We Are
Alvean is one of the global leaders in the sugar industry specialising in originating, commercializing and trading raw and white sugar. By combining decades of experience, comprehensive global market knowledge, trading expertise and a unique supply base together with integrated logistics, our employees across 9 countries worldwide are uniquely placed to deliver the best service to our customers globally.
Governance
Established in 2014, Alvean Sugar S.L. is the world’s leading sugar trading company, trading annually an average of 10 to 12 million MT of raw and refined sugar combined. Since 2021, the Company is fully owned by Copersucar S.A. – Brazil’s leading exporter of sugar. Alvean is a standalone entity, with its 7-member Board of Directors, its Risk Committee and its independent Management Team. The company can count on more than 100 professionals located in 7 countries to create a unique set of skills and expertise in a wide range of disciplines such as Trading, Trade Execution, Risk Management, Trade Intelligence, Treasury&Finance, IT or Legal. Alvean develops long term relationships with a wide range of stakeholders, including Suppliers, Clients and Financial Institutions
Management Team
Mauro Angelo
CEO
Mauro started his career at BCG and later moved to commodity markets at UBS (formerly Link Investimentos). In 2006, Mauro joined Copersucar in São Paulo as Sugar and Ethanol Trader. In early 2012, he became the Head of Raw Sugar Trading at Copersucar and continued in this position when Copersucar and Cargill formed Alvean in 2014. Since then, he has been based in Geneva. Mauro became Chief Commercial Officer at Alvean in 2019 and assumed his current responsibilities as CEO in July 2023. He also serves as Council Member at The Sugar Association of London (SAL) and is a Member of the World Sugar Committee at ICE Futures US. Mauro holds an undergraduate degree in Business Administration and a Master’s in Finance and Economics.
Edouard Huberdeau
CFO
Before joining Alvean in January 2022 as CFO, Edouard spent over 22 years in banking, working in Paris, Shanghai, New York and Geneva. In Commodity Finance his whole career, he managed complex client relationships and led front office teams in Energy, Metals and Softs, in addition to being part of the management teams at BNP and then more recently at UBS.
Fernanda Tavares
Head of HR, Execution and Accounting
Fernanda is Food Engineer graduated at Unicamp and Social Scientist graduated at USP, both university ranking between the best in Brazil. MBA in finance and controlling. Working with sugar and ethanol trading since 2000, with experience in commercial, logistics and execution areas, but mainly as controller. Fernanda works at Alvean since its creation, currently responsible for operations, Human Resources and accounting areas. She is part of the company's management, fluent in 4 languages and a good mother.
Julien Windhouwer
General Counsel
Julien Windhouwer trained and qualified as a Dutch lawyer at Van Harmelen Beijneveld van Houten advocaten, in Rotterdam. He then joined agribusiness company Nidera (Handelscompagnie) B.V. in 2011, where he held the positions of Group Legal Counsel (Maritime & Trading) and Group Insurance Manager. Following the acquisition of Nidera by COFCO International in 2014, he was invited to transfer to COFCO’s Geneva office in 2018, where he assumed the role of Senior Group Legal Counsel (Shipping & Trading). In August 2020 he joined Alvean as General Counsel. Julien holds an LLM in both Civil Law and International and European law from Leiden University.
Alvean is specialized in the origination, commercialization and trading of raw and white sugar globally.