{"id":2390,"date":"2014-01-30T17:09:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T17:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afe.epicenter1.com\/news\/afe-appoints-grower-and-editor-as-new-trustees"},"modified":"2024-03-18T21:51:16","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T21:51:16","slug":"afe-appoints-grower-and-editor-as-new-trustees","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/endowment.org\/es\/news\/afe-appoints-grower-and-editor-as-new-trustees","title":{"rendered":"AFE Appoints Grower and Editor as New Trustees"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/endowment.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/imported-files\/juancarlosuribe1-1.png\" alt=\"AFE Appoints Grower and Editor as New Trustees\" class=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"675\"> <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p><a href=\"https:\/\/endowment.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/juancarlosuribe1.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2613\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2613\" src=\"https:\/\/endowment.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/imported-files\/juancarlosuribe1-300x300.png\" alt=\"New Trustee Juan Carlos Gonzales Uribe\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/endowment.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/juancarlosuribe1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/endowment.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/juancarlosuribe1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/endowment.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/juancarlosuribe1-250x250.png 250w, https:\/\/endowment.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/juancarlosuribe1.png 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2613\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Juan Carlos Gonzalez Uribe<\/p><br>AFE has appointed two new trustees: G.R.Ch\u00eda SAS partner and Executive Vice President <strong>Juan Carlos Gonzalez Uribe and Laura Drotleff<\/strong>, editor of <em>Productor de invernadero<\/em> magazine. Both will serve a three-year term on the AFE Board, with the option for a second term.<br>Juan Carlos brings 31 years of experience in growing and cut flower research to AFE as partner and Executive Vice President of G.R.Ch\u00eda SAS, an organization of 36 farms that grows and exports more than 30 different cut flower species in Colombia and sells more than 90 million stems annually in the U.S.The company employs more than 130 full-time agronomists, biologists and other professionals, along with a permanent team of 40 interns from Colombian universities.<br>He will serve on AFE\u2019s Production and Post-Harvest Scientific Research Committee, where his extensive research experience will be valuable.<br>\u201cI feel very honored to be appointed as a Trustee of AFE,\u201d he said. \u201cI feel confident that my experience and knowledge of applied research and growing in the production and postharvest greenhouses in different countries will serve for the benefit of our loved industry.\u201d<br>Before his current position, he joined the Floramerica\/Sunburst Group and brought the company from producing three crops to producing 28 different cut flower species, all while conducting more than 70 successful research projects over a 15-year period.<br>He has undergraduate through postgraduate degrees from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel and speaks Hebrew, Spanish and English. He has served as president of Ceniflores (the research arm of Asocolflores) since 2005 and is currently a member of the International Society for Horticultural Science and the International Cut Flower Growers Association.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/endowment.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/LauraDrotleffPNG1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2614\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2614\" src=\"https:\/\/endowment.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/imported-files\/LauraDrotleffPNG1-300x252.png\" alt=\"New Trustee Laura Drotleff\" width=\"300\" height=\"252\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2614\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laura Drotleff<\/p><br>Drotleff, also a new trustee, joined Meister Media Worldwide in 1999 shortly after earning a bachelor\u2019s in Agriculture and Natural Resources Communications from Michigan State University. She then served as field editor and later as managing editor of\u00a0<i>Productor de invernadero <\/i>magazine<i>.<\/i><br>When she left the magazine in 2006 to start a family, Drotleff remained active in the floriculture industry over the next seven years as a frequent contributor to both <i>Productor de invernadero<\/i>\u00a0y\u00a0<i>Today\u2019s Garden Center<\/i>\u00a0and as a freelance writer for a number of national publications. She returned to the ornamental group staff last summer as managing editor of both\u00a0<i>Productor de invernadero<\/i>\u00a0y\u00a0<i>Today\u2019s Garden Center<\/i> and was named editor of <i>Productor de invernadero<\/i> in November 2013.<br>In an effort to further promote the Endowment, AFE trustees strategically looked for a key trade industry member to serve on the AFE Board and the Public Relations\/Development Committee.<br>\u201cI am pleased and honored to be a member of the distinguished group of trustees for the American Floral Endowment,\u201d she said. \u201cIn our unique industry, each one of us is responsible for its sustainability and future success by representing our work passionately to recruit young members, by funding education and research opportunities and by promoting our industry positively to the general public. AFE is leading this, and I\u2019m looking forward to collaborating with the other trustees to drive more awareness of the organization\u2019s efforts and interaction throughout the industry.\u201d<br>In nearly a decade covering the market, she has traveled the country and the world visiting greenhouse operations and breeders and learning about what is most important to growers and to the industry. During her industry tenure, Drotleff has been an active participant in the industry, serving on the FloraStar Board of Trustees, the former OFA membership committee (now AmericanHort) and other groups.<p><\/p>","protected":false},"template":"","news-categories":[32,42,31,29],"class_list":["post-2390","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news-categories-donors","news-categories-grower","news-categories-latest-news","news-categories-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>AFE Appoints Grower and Editor as Two New Trustees - AFE<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"AFE&#039;s 2 new trustees: G.R.Ch\u00eda SAS partner and Executive Vice President Juan Carlos Gonzalez Uribe and Laura Drotleff, editor of Greenhouse Grower magazineAFE&#039;s 2 new trustees: G.R.Ch\u00eda SAS partner and Executive Vice President Juan Carlos Gonzalez Uribe and Laura Drotleff, editor of Greenhouse Grower magazine\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/endowment.org\/es\/noticias\/afe-appoints-grower-and-editor-as-new-trustees\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"AFE Appoints Grower and Editor as Two New Trustees - 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