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Michael DeSa

Veteran

Military Service

U.S. Marine Corps Captain

Experience

6 years served

Future

Seeking a career in consulting

Location

Marshall, TX

About Michael

AGD Consulting is a US-based, veteran-owned firm offering strategic advisory services and customized investment research trips designed to provide investors with a unique opportunity to gain first-hand experience about Latin American agriculture. As the Founder/CEO of AGD Consulting, I'm an experienced Latin American land owner and farmer, a former Marine Corps Officer of seven years, and a husband and father to four boys. My technical background (B.S. in Agricultural Engineering from Texas A&M University), years of management and problem solving experience in the Marine Corps, and extensive travels throughout the region make me uniquely qualified to lead every investment trip and provide expert advisory services for private, HNWI, and institutional investors seeking to diversify into this sector. Our consulting services include but are not limited to sourcing, boots-on-the-ground due diligence, agricultural investment analysis, risk assessment and mitigation, and land management and ownership structuring. Our team strives to match the right investor to the right investment given individual or organizational needs.

My degree in Agricultural Engineering from Texas A&M University has proven extraordinarily useful in buying, selling, and managing property in Latin America. I am currently a partner in the ownership of an agricultural-based investment in San Rafael, Argentina. Our family’s fully-managed and operational Argentina farm is a mix of alfalfa and thousands of plum and pear trees. We are also conducting feasibility studies on the viability of raising cattle in the near future. Additionally, I co-managers of a nearly self-sufficient farm in Texas, raising a variety of traditional agricultural crops, hydroponic greenhouse produce, bees, and multiple breeds of chickens for eggs and meat.

In 2015, I designed and executed a 6-month, 6-country investment research trip to Latin America in order to gain first-hand experience about different agricultural practices and financial markets before personally investing in Argentina himself. During a year’s worth of research and boots-on-the ground experience, I conducted over 100 unique agricultural site visits in seven countries (Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, and Panama); providing me with an invaluable sense of perspective and breadth of knowledge about a variety of asset classes and agricultural practices. Let me use my first-hand experience, education, and network of contacts across the region to offer you expert analysis and experience-based advisory services, all designed to showcase Latin American agriculture as a formidable alternative asset class.

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