A field school on a coffee hillside: growers and the Cirkular team standing in a circle beside a stack of cut zoca, the Andean range behind them

Who we are

Our team

Theo O'Donnell

Chief Executive Officer

Ciara Cronin-Albert

VP Commercial

Luis Felipe Arias

General Manager, Colombia

Darío Díaz

Head of Technology and Colombia Operations

Nicolás Uribe

Head of Finance

Ronald Salazar

National Territorial Development Director

Santiago Martínez

National Manager of Biochar Operations

Karin Díaz

Procurement and Administration Manager

Founders and advisors

Felipe Sardi

Co-founder and Chairman

María Margarita Rodríguez

Co-founder and Impact Advisor

Rodrigo Sardi

Co-founder and Technology Advisor

Álvaro Sosa

Technology Advisor

Our values

Our four Fs

A coffee grower in the program picking ripe cherries

Farmers First

The smallholder farmer is our partner, our neighbor and paid before we are. Our farmers share in the upside.

The field team and growers checking records on their phones

Founded on Evidence

Every Cirkular credit traces back to a region, a farmer and a plot.

Three of the Cirkular team on swings hung from a timber frame over a coffee hillside, a flamboyan in bloom behind them

Fun

If there’s no fun baked into the work that we do, we don’t do it.

Focused

We do one thing exceptionally well and resist scope creep and hype. Disciplined execution is our goal.

Our character

We do all of our work with rigor, joy and no illusions

Careers

We’re a team of proud farmers, agronomists, scientists, builders and dreamers. We’re here to get farmers paid first to scale the regenerative transition. Join us!

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Three of the Cirkular team resting on sacks of biochar at the edge of a farm, with a stand of guadua behind them