What is your position in the coffee industry?

barista, manager, coffee shop owner, barista trainer, coffee roaster, coffee grower, home barista, coffee enthusiast, industry professional, consultant, service tech/repair, supplier

Where are you located? ( City and Country )

Guayaquil, Ecuador

How many years have you been in the industry?

12

If you are a barista or shop, are you interested in a barista exchange with another coffee shop/barista?

yes

Tell us more about your coffee shop or barista skills.

You will see soon

The only concept that conect Specialty Small producers of Coffee with consumers as an core objetive

What cities or countries are you interested in traveling to?

All of them, see my Youtube profile

About Me:

Miguel Rendón earned his undergraduate degree in agronomical engineering at EARTH University in Costa Rica. Here, he had the opportunity to work with many communities of small producers of Specialty coffees in Costa Rica and live with coffee producing families for weeks at a time. He worked for Monsanto initially in St. Louis, Missouri on a project for Kenya, later directly related to the area of coffee and small producers in Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Honduras and Ecuador. He lived five years in Guatemala managing Monsanto Coffee business where he earned his master's degree and married the daughter of a well-known Guatemalan coffee producer, Ing. Adolfo Boppel, CEO of Finca Las Nubes. Later he became general manager for Monsanto in Ecuador. Six years ago, he founded Escoffee concept with a group of investors from Ecuador developing Specialty coffees from Ecuador and Guatemala that has been exported and well received by important roasters and consumers in Europe, USA, Canada and Japan. In the past years Escoffee has opened 17 Escoffee stores in Ecuador and Guatemala and we close all of them to really open in 2009 the first complete Specialty Coffee Experience in the world.

About My Company:

www.escoffee.com

What is your favorite thing about the coffee industry?

Coffee fluids are in my blod

Website:

http://www.escoffee.com