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Henry Dunlop
Henry Dunlop is currently CIO for Ballymena advisors/funds and is also currently President/CEO of Atlantic (USA), Inc. based in New York, as well as a Managing Director of the parent company ECOM Agroindustrial Co.,Pully, Switzerland, a leading global merchant in coffee, sugar, cocoa and cotton. He joined Atlantic in 1988, and assumed his current role in 1998, and has guided the firm to be the most successful physical coffee and cocoa merchant in North America. He also has held many positions within the commodity industry, having been Chairman of the National Coffee Association, and is currently on the board there. He has been an active participant on the Exchange going back to being a seat member of the New York Coffee, Sugar, and Cocoa Exchange, later to be the New York Board of Trade, and currently the Intercontinental Exchange. Presently he is Chairman of the Coffee Committee, the Sugar Control Committee, and also the Coffee Graders Committee. Henry started his career in commodities with ACLI International in 1973 after attaining a B.A. degree from Gettysburg College. Starting at the bottom as a physical coffee merchant (one year after the Exchange launched its reformulated “C” contract), working in the sample room, cupping and grading coffee, and starting the process of buying, selling and hedging the product itself. In 1975 he moved to Colombia where he was named Assistant Manager of Compania Cafetera de Manizales, Ltda., becoming co-Manager in 1976 with principal responsibilities involving buying the raw material, selling, hedging, and logistics. Returning in 1979 to ACLI, where he worked as a merchant with a team under successive ownership from a private family enterprise to Donaldson, Lufkin, Jenrette, and then on to Cargill. He left Cargill in 1986 to become first Vice-President and then President of Inter-Continental de Cafe, Inc. (New York), then the largest coffee exporting company in Brasil, continuing his role as merchant, hedger, and risk manager.