Agribusiness Consultants: 4

Andres Jimenez Vascone, MBA, has over 30 years of experience in the Paper / Containerboard Industry in Latin America. He specializes in the Sales and Marketing of the Agroexport Business.

Mr. Jimenez Vascone recently completed a course in Negotiation Mastery from Harvard Business School (online coursework) where he enhanced his skills to close deals that might otherwise be deadlocked, and learned to maximize value in the agreements reached and resolve differences before they escalate into costly conflicts.

Background Experience - Since 1999, Mr. Jimenez Vascone has worked with Papelera Nacional S.A. where he has direct relations with the sales and exports of containerboard to the most important clients of the company which are all the cardboard manufacturers of boxes for bananas, flowers, and other Ecuadorian product exports, as well as the sales of the boxes from the box plant in Ecuador which initiated operations in 2011 and now sells approximately 110K MT per year of boxes.

In this role, Mr. Jimenez Vascone has the following duties:

• Responsible for the production planning of the 2 Paper Machines
• Responsible for the export division, maintaining relations with international clients in Central America, Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Chile, Bolivia, and others
• Responsible for the elaboration of the annual sales division budget for paper and boxes

Moss Adams provides Forensic Accounting, Litigation Support, and Business Valuations in addition to their Tax and Audit practice. They specialize in the areas of:

                              Health Care - Manufacturing and Distribution - Real Estate Construction - Agri-Business - Information Technology

Moss Adams is a fully integrated professional services firm dedicated to assisting clients with growing, managing, and protecting prosperity. With more than 3,400 professionals across more than 25 locations in the West and beyond, they work with many of the world’s most innovative companies and leaders. Their strength in the middle market enables them to advise clients at all intervals of development—from start-up, to rapid growth and expansion, to transition. 

Moss Adams' Fresno offices are home to audit, tax, and consulting professionals serving clients in the agriculture, construction, manufacturing, health care, and not-for-profit industries. The Fresno offices also have specialty practices in valuation, litigation support, estate planning, employee benefit plans, and other value-added services.

John A. Harris, is Principal of Landscape Economics, LLC, President of Earth Advisors, Inc., and a LANDSCAPE ECONOMIST who has worked in the Arboriculture, Forestry, landscape, and horticultural fields for over 40 years. Mr. Harris has provided reputable consulting, education, and project management services for projects across the United States and internationally, in both temperate and tropical ecosystems. Areas of Expertise include:

• Landscape and Tree Risk Assessments
  • Landscape, Tree, Urban Forest, Nursery Plant Value Appraisals
  • Landscape, Tree, Urban Forest, Nursery Plant Damage Appraisals
  • Damage Assessments, Claims, and Recovery Consulting

• Arboriculture Industry Standards and Standard Practices
• Landscape, Arboriculture, Forestry, Environmental Project Management
• Utility Line Clearance Industry Standards and Standard Practices, Electrocution
• Landscape Industry Standards and Standard Practices- Design, installation, maintenance
• Personal Injury and Wrongful Death involving tree or landscape issues
• Municipal Tree Inventory and Management Plans
• Duty of Care and Negligence in Tree and Landscape Maintenance
• Forestry and Forest Resources Management
• Grounds Maintenance Practices
• Arboriculture and Arborist Practices

The four PhD and registered PEs at Miller Engineering are celebrating 40 years of Professorships at three universities along with providing services to Government, Insurance, and Industry—through research, publications, presentations, and expert testimony. We have a dedicated office with a full time staff of engineers, researchers, and technical writers. The span of our collective academic and experiential expertise covers well the Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, Agricultural, Industrial, Human Factors, Ergonomic and Safety fields of engineering. The areas listed below are from actual projects completed in our 40 years of history.