Meet The Team

Frank Riedmüller (Switzerland)


Farmland Coffee has a strong direct sourcing platform. Amongst others, we use it as a centre for active quality monitoring during the harvest season at farm level enabling highly selective purchasing. Frank built this network over many years when he lived in Latin America and Africa, managing and working for coffee export operations in Colombia, Peru, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, East Africa and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

We are proud that we can use our direct contact with the coffee farmers to link them with you as our premium customer thereby creating social and economic awareness and environmental responsibility.

Rosario Castellón (Nicaragua)


Chaio is from Ocotal, the capital of the high-quality growing area of Nueva Segovia in the North. Her background was shaped at different coffee grower cooperatives.

At an early age she assumed a guiding role in building up the institutional structure at cooperative level. She founded Prodecoop in 1990 and Soppexcca in 1996.

Chaio provides technical assistance to the associates in a customized way, enabling them to produce high-quality coffees applying sustainable farming methods.

She proved herself to be an outstanding cupping professional and monitors the quality of a coffee at the different stages of the harvest cycle and all the way upstream from farm to port to ensure consistency in tasting profile and flavour characteristics on the basis of our established quality standards

Romulo Nunez (Peru)


Romulo lives in La Merced, in the Chanchamayo valley.

The province of Chanchamayo belongs to the Junin region and has a long tradition for high quality coffee production dating back to the 1920, when the descendants of about 300 german speaking settlers who relocated from Europe in 1857, arrived in Villa Rica and started to cultivate arabica coffee.

Romulo entered the coffee business in 1997 as a purchasing- and quality-control manager. He and Frank met in 2000 and have been a team ever since.

Romulo directs numerous coffee projects and sustainability initiatives to help private associations and individual farmers to achieve certification for “responsible” coffee production by implementing new sustainable growing standards.

Thanks to his long-standing personal relationships with the farmers, he is able to identify specific tasting profiles with each producer in order to match the quality preferences of our customers. 

Gilberto Perez (Colombia)


The growing area of Huila accounts for the core line-up of NFC premium coffees out of Colombia. We are so fond of this unique region as we find stable access and strong supply conditions on the ground. This is achieved with the help of Gilberto who covers all sourcing stages of our supply chains in Huila from exporting via processing the parchment to export grade down to purchasing the selected parchment at the farm gate.

Gilberto creates social and economic value for the 2 cooperatives he leads, applying new production standards, building skills through training, improving access to finance and branding the high-quality coffees he carefully develops.